The Plaid Pladd Blog » quotes http://www.patricialadd.com The Madcap Adventures of Patricia Ladd! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:11:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 One Month to Learn All of Math http://www.patricialadd.com/2009/09/one-month-to-learn-all-of-math/ http://www.patricialadd.com/2009/09/one-month-to-learn-all-of-math/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:22:15 +0000 pladd http://www.patricialadd.com/?p=528 Boy: How long have you worked here?
Me: About a month.
Boy: WOAH. You know a lot of math for only a month.
Me: I knew most math before I came here. I didn’t learn all of math in a month.
Boy: I’m going to try!

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Girl: THE PRESIDENT. Duh.
Boy: Which president?
Girl: THE president!
Other Boy: I thought it was God.
Girl: Nu-uh!
Other Boy: God invented the president! So if the president invented numbers, GOD invented numbers!
Me: And what identity is that?
All: (general mumblings)
Boy: Ooh! Ooh! Transitive property!
Girl: I knew that.
Me: Good.

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My new hobby: counting how many times I hear the word “metadata”. I already got sick of it during orientation so I figured I would masochistically track exactly how many times it’s said this semester by people who are only trying to sound pretentious. Luckily, I am now a graduate student, and not to be intimidated by buzzwords. Neo-classical post-colonial paradigm! Come on, guys, I was an English major. That’s like all we do.
Current “Metadata” count: 17

My tutoring group, asking me about myself to avoid working: “Why do you want to be a librarian when you’re so good at math?” I haven’t been told I was good at math since the ninth grade. Maybe I too could have been an SE with some POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT.

A giant snail with a flashlight in its mouth chasing a stick figure man over the Intro to Cataloging. No one said margin doodles had to make sense.

Number of people I’ve met so far who have heard of Rice before: 2. Way to go, “Who Knew?” Campaign. Way to go.

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