WOULD I EVER WANT TO BE A MATH MAJOR?

Real quick, though, notes:

A BTU is the energy required to raise the temperature of 1lb of water by 1F.
A calorie, on the other hand, is the energy required to raise the temperature of 1mL (1cm^3) by 1C.
See page 315:
1BTU=252cal (.252kCal)
1BTU=1055J
1cal (.001kCal)=4.186J
J=N*m
Something about work and heat transfer and energy (heat transfer - work = change in energy) blah blah.
Regular (fossil) power plant is about 40% efficient (energy out/energy in, see?); nuclear power plant is about 34% efficient.

Okay, so, I might have looked at all the cute-n-tiny.com pages. And I read girls with slingshots, so George can not judge me anymore. (Did you get all the way up-to-date on Penny and Aggie, by the way, or did you accidentally skip ahead and learn how dark it gets? THERE'S ONLY MURDER, YOU GUYS, IT'S NOT THAT BAD.) And now I'm a little bit stuck on this food porn website that makes me wish I ate more frequently.

Right. So. I could probably be a math major. And, so as to have some kind of employment, my math major could have a concentration in math education? Only, uh... I don't know. I like math. I actually do. And I... I mean, I don't get to do it that often, but I do like helping explain math to people. I think? I'm not at all sure.

The trouble here is that I am constantly changing what I think I might want to do with myself. I've gone through foreign service, librarian, astronomer, physicist, civil engineer, systems engineer, civil engineer again, bioengineer, doctor, math teacher--what will I think of next week? On the other hand, though I'm pretty sure I don't actually want to learn Biology and Chemistry. I just like the idea of wanting to be a doctor. It shows initiative. But I don't actually have initiative. Fuck it.

Anyway, now I'm going to freak out a little bit because I want to want to be a math teacher, but I keep looking at requirements and crap and of course that was going to freak me out. Requirements are scary. Also, they want me to be filling out an application for something about certification in the semester when I finish 60 credits, and, um, I have about 60 credits, and so that means that shit would be FAST APPROACHING and TERRIFYING. Also they want me to have at least a 3.0 overall GPA and a 2.75 math GPA, and I don't have those at the moment. Hopefully when I successfully finish retaking the class I failed and the class I got a D in, hopefully for Bs in both, everything will be better, but I AM NOT A VERY GOOD STUDENT. And they want 3 letters of recommendation and for me to have a Math adviser (FFFFFFFFF) and a 2-page paper about my "interactions with adolescents" and how hard I want to be a teacher. So... So I don't really know. I wish I knew all this before starting college so that I wouldn't be so far behind. Math majors themselves are pretty easy, though. Lots of electives.

Anyway, so, yeah, maybe I should be getting back to paying attention in class. But fuck class. I'd rather be writing the blag.

By the way, it's Remembrance Day in Canada and Veterans Day in the US. They're the same thing, basically. So just be aware of veterans for today.