#Calculus

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding insistence on choosing presence over productivity. But how do we really spend our days? In our era, the average human lifetime will contain two years of

Author: Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader / Source: Today I Found Out Calculus involves the study of limits. By the time they were done arguing about who had invented it, Isaac Newton and G. W. Leibniz had probably both reached their limit as well. Science has seen a number of simultaneous

I never learned Calculus. That wasn’t for a lacking of trying. My junior year, I took Trigonometry, and then senior year I took Calculus BC. Those were the two most advanced math classes you take at my school. But I didn’t synthesize dick. Show me a fucking cosine equation today and I’ll

I took AP Calculus my senior year of high school and, boy, fuck did I bomb that exam. It wasn’t my fault though. You see, I had great grades in AP Calculus. During the period before, my friend Ji-Yeh would let me copy her homework. Then, I sat next to her during exams and copied her tests. Finished

Cedrick Argueta was called to the principal’s office about his AP Calculus score. When you get called into the principal about a test it’s either because administration thinks you cheated or because you did something insane. Argueta didn’t cheat, though people might assume it, because the kid