Why math is now my favorite subject.

Alongside everyone else growing up through elementary and high school, I detested math class.

Worksheets after worksheets. Confusing formulas. And don’t you dare be absent because you’ll miss that day’s lesson and when you come back you’ll be packets behind of work that you, frankly, forgot how to resolve.

Heck,

I remember being kicked out of Pre-Algebra in 8th grade because I would get confused with all those nasty variables and formulas. I was sent back to the regular math class.

Although, at this moment in time, I am a high school senior.

I look back at that Pre-Algebra class and realize it’s very easy.

I’m in Pre-Calc this year and it’s not very difficult.

I decided that math is my favorite subject for a very “deep” and dare I say lazy reason:

2 + 2 = 4

And 25 x 3 = 75

There is one correct answer.

In English we read a poem and we have to write a response of said poem taking about how it made us feel.

It’s dangerous.

Our beliefs and feelings are such a delicate thing to handle.

When you think you found the right words to capture how you felt, you realize it’s not possible.

There are many words that have the same meaning yet they can still seem off in your writings.

In arithmetic, you either say the correct answer or you don’t.

I’m not a big fan of learning formulas and filing up my bookbag with endless worksheets. However, a calculator can do fast thinking. And there is no technology (yet) that can scan the mind and show your raw and precise feelings on its screen.

In other words, I rather write formulas a few times than write paragraphs that lead to nowhere.