I had asked our TA a question on Calc, and he gave me an explanation, but he wasn't really sure what the answer was. (It was something about when Green's Theorem works and when it doesn't, and what it has to do with holes in the region.) So I went to talk to our math professor about it. She gave the exact opposite answer of the TA, but it wasn't her field either, so I asked if she could refer me to a book or area of study. She didn't get back to me until today after class. She said she looked it up, and it has to do with algebraic topology. She asked if I was going to be a math major. I said. . . uhhhh I like math, and I can understand it and do problems and stuff, but coming up with new theorems is really a different thing. She said this was actually a recent topic of research, this was a very good question, and that asking this kind of question is the thing that leads to new theorems, and that she thinks I should really consider being a math major. What's more, she thinks I should be a topologist. Hehehe, how funny!! It's such a hard, hard branch of math. But really, I was surprised, and I guess happily so, because apparently she thinks I would have some promise as a math major. Hmmmmmmmm. . . . So. . . . what DO I want to be????????






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