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Why America Really Is Great and Math Really Is Also

because people can actually believe whatever they want, even if it's totally absurd.

and the ACLU will defend Nazis (who they really do hate) in the name of a higher principle.

and i can sit here, being essentially the luckiest girl on earth because I can just sit here reading on my bed and know that my biggest problems are really just homework that really is a blessing.

And I really do love America, but I love the happy world of math probably more.

MATH IS CRAZY. SOMEHOW WE CAN MODEL THE MASSIVE ABSTRACT IDEAS AND PATTERNS THAT MAKE UP OUR UNIVERSE JUST BY CONDENSING THEM TO "NUMBERS" AND SYMBOLS WE ASSIGN MEANING TO? THAT ALL RECOGNIZE AND FOLLOW THE SAME NATURAL LAWS? HOLY FUCK I LOVE THE WORLD.

I had kind of a mathy existential crisis today when we started learning about the derivatives of inverse hyperbolic trig functions. i mean really, those words /mean/ something. ultimately, they /matter/. AND SOME ONE JUST, LIKE, FOUND THAT OUT.

WITHOUT A CALCULATOR.

dear god i think i might want to be a mathematician