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...this bravado didn’t last. I spent the next three years struggling with math demons. A’s were followed by C’s in quick succession, bringing me to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of despair. A few topics in Calculus and PreCalc piqued my interest, and once I even spent a history class trying to solve a math problem with glee. But usually it was the other way around; math class was absorbed by writing sonnets, and I left without having understood the material. I refused to do homework, sometimes even...
Well, no. But that wasn’t our point. The point was—and is—to ask ourselves why, in our day and age, we were still making such divergent choices. What pressures were siphoning us off. Why talented girls were constantly crying over bad math tests in the hallways (it was like an epidemic) and guys swore that they just didn’t “get” poetry...
...theory then, as it is now, was that my failure in math was due to a pre-emptive fear of failure. My guess is that many young women are similarly uncomfortable with the aggressive risk-taking associated with math and the physical sciences, and are afraid to fill in that blank space with the wrong answer. In my opinion, this is because, for American girls, the value of keeping up an appearance of perfection is often ingrained very early...
...math class, the boys shrugged off bad grades and vowed to study harder, but for me, a C penetrated into my very soul, affecting my self-confidence and ability to enjoy the class. My parents had encouraged me to do math, but somewhere along the line, I absorbed society’s expectations, and internalized them. I think many girls reading this will relate. Every test became a “will I fail?”—and therefore meant so much more than it should have. Many of my friends rode the same emotional rollercoaster when...
...band opened with perhaps the best-known single off their new album, “Death of a Salesman,” a delicate song reminiscent of slow They Might Be Giants tunes, as Sparhawk sighed out haunting lyrics like, “The future is prisons and math.” After two more Destroyer songs, Low delved languidly into a song from their previous release, the dark Trust, called “(That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace,” a delicate song that bares the gritty spirituality of the group...