just because i learned to do math doesn’t mean I’m not still afraid of it 😭
Fake funny maths:
When shit gets real:
molecular biologists rolling their eyes
And on a more serious note, considering how much of science is doing admin, attempting to get grants, and data science, almost every scientist is very, intimately familiar with maths.
data science
Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.
STOP IT PATRICK YOURE SCARING HIM!
My experiences have led me to believe the type of math someone is good at depends on their field (or what math they use regularly).
Some biologists are excellent statisticians, far better than me. I’ve also learned to never trust those same biologists with unit conversions that a chemist would consider incredibly simple.
math is pervasive and inevitable.
the only people that can escape it in their professional lives are republican politicians.
I like math quite a lot, but I don’t really use it in my job as a language teacher. I guess there’s a small amount of addition and division in grading, but there are also programs that automatically do that for you.
Gotta count heads for attendance, too.
Also time.
Nah, I teach adult immigrants, so if they don’t show up, that’s their business. As for time, I don’t know that I really consider that math.
Either way, counting and time are two things that republicans politicians also have to do, tallying up the votes in congress and figuring out exactly how long they can draw that process out. At some point, I suspect they’ll give up vote tallying, but we’re not there quite yet.
bruh
Hey, I had to take 3 terms of calculus…
… twice.
serious big mood righ therr
TBF, fuck calculus. Only nerds like calculus.
only a virgin could invent something so nerdy
