If you give me a book, I can read it and analyze the various literary devices. I can tell you why an author used a certain device and how it contributed to his over all message. Give me a computer and I’ll tell you how it works, what’s in it, how to make it better, faster, stronger, and what not to do with it. Give me a math problem and I’ll figure out how to solve it and understand the principles behind it. Give me a job and I’ll try to complete it to the best of my abilities. But you give me something that doesn’t pertain to academics, technology, or some related field then I’m as good as useless. Just a thought that’s been floating around in my mind a little bit that I wanted to get out there, pay attention to it or not it doesn’t really bother me 
Give me. . .
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Gah, updating my page reminded me to go to yours. I clicked the link and then I realized what I’ve been doing wrong on my own site. I keep forgetting to put target=”_top” in my links to have them open in a new tab. /facepalm. Thanks for the reminder.
haha no problem, that was really simple to do on mine, I believe there were options and I just picked that one.
It seems that we are conditioned, whether consciously or not, throughout our lives, especially as youths and through schooling, to handle things a certain way. Who makes the decision as to how we should be conditioned? The government? Can we be sure that the people making the rules are truly in the right, and could we change anything if we wanted to? It seems like in this day and age, people follow….If people can do one thing and one thing best, it is following. Perhaps this is the fact that people submit to close-mindedness with aging. I don’t believe that learning ever stops. As a result, I find that some questions can never be answered how people would like them to be. I grew up thinking that life was black or white. Most people believe this throughout life. Now I have discovered through my experiences that it is gray sometimes. With these gray areas, some questions are debated relentlessly. I find myself abstractly above the fierce battleground. I am a man. A young man. I claim to be no expert in any field of study. The questions may not have answers even to those that do claim this title. Therefore I must withdraw from the debate and maintain my abstraction. Maybe there is no answer. I am just a seeker. There are so many questions. Who knows how many answers there are, and even more importantly, the correct ones.
Very well put. People do try to over simplify things to being simply black and white, those who don’t recognize those gray areas are at a disadvantage whether they know it or not.
Kevin, that’s where you’d be wrong. There is no grey area in math. Math is a yes or no question. Remember before Huntington this past year, I told you and Kieffer not to over complicate things? Adding a grey area is a disadvantage in and of itself.
For math yes, but in other fields it can be an advantage. I was referring more to the social aspects of life.
I agree…..Lets face it…. Mathematicians and Engineers alike are the least socially adept people I have ever met. Even in math, there is more than one way to solve a problem.