Math and Physics

I have such a love/hate thing going on with math. Sometimes doing math is pretty exhilarating, like solving a sudoku puzzle or something. Other times I just want to pound my head against the wall because textbooks often throw you for a loop halfway through the lesson, and algebraic expressions are such a house of cards that it's difficult to find where you went wrong.

I just finished a lesson where algebra brushes up against physics, and I really enjoyed it. I'd also like to formally announce to the nobel prize committee that I've independently discovered Newton's inverse square law. So what if he preceded me by 4 centuries?

I'm actually only taking the class because I can't shake the feeling that math is something I should be pursuing. I never really excelled in it in high school, but I have such an interest in how all these numbers and symbols can be used to express the physical laws of the universe, understand them, and postulate about the unknown. I suppose that interest always been there, but I really owe a debt of gratitude to Kent Slinker for turning up to teach the class that I enrolled in to avoid taking the math class I'm taking now, and encouraging me to study more math. The unfortunate thing is that having a decent teacher is incredibly critical to me getting anywhere with math, and those are hard to find. Atticus Antonietti, who presides over the online class I'm currently in, is also really good. I guess that since it's not my major, I can just bide my time and enroll in classes with good teachers when they're available, and then in 2012 when I have an english degree and no prospects, I'll start my academic career in physics or something.