Hello, everyone! It has been a while since I made an entry, but I was sick and so busy with homework and projects at school that I didn’t give myself any time to write in my blog, so I’m sorry.
This week was really long and full of work. Looks like, the teachers like to make us suffer since they are giving us a lot of homework, especially now that the partial exams are coming closer. I understand that they want to have everything marked before the partial exams, but they should give us a break once in a while because too much work can stress us out and decrease our concentration in class. Anyway, nothing interesting happened during the week, so there isn’t much to talk about, only that my classmates are having a hard time with integrals and they are feeling a little disappointed. On the contrary, I’m really happy since integrals represent a challenge for me and I like that since I can think a lot and apply a lot of algebra. This makes me really happy even though I get a little frustrated because sometimes it takes me too much time to solve certain exercises, but somehow I manage to solve them.
Before I finish, I would like to talk about a quote of a french mathematician named Blaise Pascal. Of course, my Calculus teacher mentioned him in one of her classes last semester, but anyway, I found one of his famous phrases, which I found very interesting and it says “We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others..." This phrase has given me a lot to think about and I can say that it is true. Sometimes when somebody tells us something we don’t agree completely with him/her unless we find it possible through a process made by us. An example of this can be when we do a math problem. Many people can tell us many answers, but we won’t believe the answer is true until we solve the problem ourselves and verify that the answer given by another person or the book is the same as ours. What Pascal means is that we can be told many ideas or theories about many things, but the one that will convince us the most is the one that we find by ourselves whether it is by accident or not. It is just like what people say “Seeing is Believing”. Just to complete what I’m saying, I would like to say that Pascal’s phrase also involves hard work because the hardest we work to find the reason of something, the more we are convinced that our results are better than the ones of others.
Quite a phrase Blaise Pascal wrote. I think I’m going to look for more of his phrases since he was a really wise man. Well, I guess that’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed this entry and wait for the next one. I think it is going to be more interesting since I’m having a long weekend and I’m going to have a lot of fun. See you and have a nice weekend!
This week was really long and full of work. Looks like, the teachers like to make us suffer since they are giving us a lot of homework, especially now that the partial exams are coming closer. I understand that they want to have everything marked before the partial exams, but they should give us a break once in a while because too much work can stress us out and decrease our concentration in class. Anyway, nothing interesting happened during the week, so there isn’t much to talk about, only that my classmates are having a hard time with integrals and they are feeling a little disappointed. On the contrary, I’m really happy since integrals represent a challenge for me and I like that since I can think a lot and apply a lot of algebra. This makes me really happy even though I get a little frustrated because sometimes it takes me too much time to solve certain exercises, but somehow I manage to solve them.
Before I finish, I would like to talk about a quote of a french mathematician named Blaise Pascal. Of course, my Calculus teacher mentioned him in one of her classes last semester, but anyway, I found one of his famous phrases, which I found very interesting and it says “We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others..." This phrase has given me a lot to think about and I can say that it is true. Sometimes when somebody tells us something we don’t agree completely with him/her unless we find it possible through a process made by us. An example of this can be when we do a math problem. Many people can tell us many answers, but we won’t believe the answer is true until we solve the problem ourselves and verify that the answer given by another person or the book is the same as ours. What Pascal means is that we can be told many ideas or theories about many things, but the one that will convince us the most is the one that we find by ourselves whether it is by accident or not. It is just like what people say “Seeing is Believing”. Just to complete what I’m saying, I would like to say that Pascal’s phrase also involves hard work because the hardest we work to find the reason of something, the more we are convinced that our results are better than the ones of others.
Quite a phrase Blaise Pascal wrote. I think I’m going to look for more of his phrases since he was a really wise man. Well, I guess that’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed this entry and wait for the next one. I think it is going to be more interesting since I’m having a long weekend and I’m going to have a lot of fun. See you and have a nice weekend!
