PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Yeah I know, I’ve been here for over two years now… how time flies. It’s still a little distressing when it goes down 😆

Happy days! We’re back 🎉

how am I supposed to get this to my desk without either spilling it all over or burning my lips trying to slurp it here

Easy: redefine your “desk” to be that counter. Problem solved.

Useless to you. I extremely need to know the Pythagorean Theorem for my work. Actually, absolutely everything I have ever been taught in math class ever, literally all of it and so much more, I have used. But I’m starting a PhD in electrical engineering in the fall, so I’m a bit biased 😆.

For me personally, dissecting frogs (well actually I dissected a clam) was probably a waste of time, but for at least some of my classmates it was probably helpful. Long division is important because it stimulates algorithmic thinking, which is important for living in a computerized world. Area of a trapezoid is important because… sometimes trapezoids show up, or you can approximate a more complicated shape with a trapezoid whose properties are well understood.

There are two types of people

I’m surprised that there are countries we haven’t bombed 🙃