Some people measure time in days. I measure it in electrons. Another day passes. Commerce starts and halts. People rise and sleep. I add another electron to my hypothetical journey across the periodic table. And on the joyous occasion I land on a group 1A element, I wear a periodic table t-shirt. Why? Because those guys only have one valence electron, so donating one electron realizes their dream of having only full electron shells, of being energetically happy. Being generous is how I become happy as well, so I’ve chosen the group 1A elements to represent who I am. One could infer that I have learned some chemistry. But that’s superficial.
What I am doing is something that unifies chemistry...and math, and English, and Spanish into oneinspiringframework.
Thinking.
I guess it’s a survival skill; I need it to pass classes and fulfill other mundane expectations. But the aforementioned gerund goes beyond that for me, breeding fulfillment and beckoning possibility. …show more content…
I always found refuge in math’s exactness, so I poured myself into the structure and the problems. But in the cycle of rearranging and factoring and calculating, I yearned for a unified understanding of the concepts we were learning. My solution: forging an appreciation of why everything in mathematics worked. There may be arbitrary starting points and definitions, but once I understood that everything we were learning extended concepts that extended concepts that extended this very groundwork of mathematics, it illuminated the poetic brilliance mathematics is: everything flowed together, and I carried out each procedure with purpose and
What I am doing is something that unifies chemistry...and math, and English, and Spanish into oneinspiringframework.
Thinking.
I guess it’s a survival skill; I need it to pass classes and fulfill other mundane expectations. But the aforementioned gerund goes beyond that for me, breeding fulfillment and beckoning possibility. …show more content…
I always found refuge in math’s exactness, so I poured myself into the structure and the problems. But in the cycle of rearranging and factoring and calculating, I yearned for a unified understanding of the concepts we were learning. My solution: forging an appreciation of why everything in mathematics worked. There may be arbitrary starting points and definitions, but once I understood that everything we were learning extended concepts that extended concepts that extended this very groundwork of mathematics, it illuminated the poetic brilliance mathematics is: everything flowed together, and I carried out each procedure with purpose and