Tuesday, October 4, 2011
I'm lovin' it
Being a Social Work major is the best decision I ever made in my life. Although I do not have the whole support of friends and family based off of what a future career requires, I know that this is where God wants me. I am so happy to be going to school to further my learning and help many people in the future. Lovin' life and couldn't be any happier with where it is headed.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Idea.
I had this weird new idea that I considered at work one day...
Is it possible that I'm living in a world where everything actually does revolve around me? It's hard to explain and it's not meant to sound cocky but it reminds me of that movie with Jim Carrey where everyone does everything for him and gets paid for it. I think it's a life inside his life or something like that... Interesting concept.
Is it possible that I'm living in a world where everything actually does revolve around me? It's hard to explain and it's not meant to sound cocky but it reminds me of that movie with Jim Carrey where everyone does everything for him and gets paid for it. I think it's a life inside his life or something like that... Interesting concept.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Change of plans...
Sooo here's the thing: I don't really wanna be a mathematician anymore. College math courses are really hard. My first college semester finals are this week and the only exam that I'm dreading is applied calc.
I have changed my major since first entering Wartburg College. I am now a Social Work major. We shall see how that goes.
But for now, I guess I would still like to be a mathematician except for the fact that I don't want to do all the math courses to get my degree.
If social work doesn't work out, I have no idea what I'm going to do...
I have changed my major since first entering Wartburg College. I am now a Social Work major. We shall see how that goes.
But for now, I guess I would still like to be a mathematician except for the fact that I don't want to do all the math courses to get my degree.
If social work doesn't work out, I have no idea what I'm going to do...
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Pharmacist
So I'm still not sure if a mathematician is a broad term for many different careers within it. But, my parents have been bringing up the idea a lot lately that maybe I should be a pharmacist. I can't really figure out what that has to do with math like they said it does. I briefly researched it actually today. I questioned ask.com and the answer it spit out at me was basically that pharmacists calculate amounts of drug components to mix together taking into consideration the weight of the drug itself, the dose, and the time it takes to dissolve in a body. I'm guessing that it's more complicated then a little multiplication here and there and maybe a couple equations but I'm sure it's not that simple. Drugs are really harmful if not used carefully and correctly so I might be kind of nervous to "hand out" my concoctions to sick people everyday.
The reason that I do like the sound of this career for me is that I've always kind of liked the idea of working in some kind of medical career but I also like math. Being a pharmacist might just be the one job for me...
The reason that I do like the sound of this career for me is that I've always kind of liked the idea of working in some kind of medical career but I also like math. Being a pharmacist might just be the one job for me...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
NES
On a math, physics, and computer science comic strip website, I found this one about the days when NES first came out:
Of the many things that me and my two older brothers did as kids, we spent a lot of time playing the "Nintendo Entertainment System" in the basement. I vividly remember when we got this first Nintendo video game system. I'm pretty sure my oldest brother either bought it or got it as a gift. Anyway, my mom would usually get mad because we would be playing it for hours like Paperboy and Super Mario Bros.
Paperboy was by far my favorite game. The best feeling was getting past all the monsters in the sewer trying to eat me and then getting to the end obstacle course. I have to honestly say that I rarely saw that finish crowd cheering for me.
Since I am the little sister, I didn't get to play as much as my brothers and their friends did but I loved to watch. My mom ended up just saying that we could all sit in the basement becuase it kept us out of her hair.
So, having to do with the comic, I totally remember having to take the game out of the system and blowing the dust out so it would start working normal again. It's weird how that doesn't happen nearly as often now with new gaming systems.
My family still stays true to the Nintendo brand. I think we have or have had every system so far. It's pretty ridiculous. We are slowly moving into the world of XBox and stuff.
It's also pretty ridiculous that I'm talking about childhood memories like this one but I honestly have not thought of anything completely related to math for a while. So, I found this comic on a math website. That's how it relates.
Of the many things that me and my two older brothers did as kids, we spent a lot of time playing the "Nintendo Entertainment System" in the basement. I vividly remember when we got this first Nintendo video game system. I'm pretty sure my oldest brother either bought it or got it as a gift. Anyway, my mom would usually get mad because we would be playing it for hours like Paperboy and Super Mario Bros.
Paperboy was by far my favorite game. The best feeling was getting past all the monsters in the sewer trying to eat me and then getting to the end obstacle course. I have to honestly say that I rarely saw that finish crowd cheering for me.
Since I am the little sister, I didn't get to play as much as my brothers and their friends did but I loved to watch. My mom ended up just saying that we could all sit in the basement becuase it kept us out of her hair.
So, having to do with the comic, I totally remember having to take the game out of the system and blowing the dust out so it would start working normal again. It's weird how that doesn't happen nearly as often now with new gaming systems.
My family still stays true to the Nintendo brand. I think we have or have had every system so far. It's pretty ridiculous. We are slowly moving into the world of XBox and stuff.
It's also pretty ridiculous that I'm talking about childhood memories like this one but I honestly have not thought of anything completely related to math for a while. So, I found this comic on a math website. That's how it relates.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Life of a Statistician
In the book I'm reading, the life of Stella Cunliffe is described in chapter 25. Her "tart wit" got her through many hard times with much success mixed in. After the Great Depression, one of Cunliffe's two jobs was working as a statistician at Guinness Brewing Company. I find this job choice to be very interesting yet awesome for two reasons (and not for the reason you're probably thinking right now). I think it'd be a cool place to work because I could do math while in an unusual job in the first place. Also, I'd like working at the Guinness Brewing Company because I'm sure it smells just as good as the two other breweries I've visited on vacations. I love the dark, bold smell of all that grain being combusted.
Anyway, Cunliffe liked her job there because she didn't like sitting at a desk and looking at data sent to her from field scientists. She liked to go out into the agricultural side of the business and get the data for herself. The author in this section of The Lady Tasting Tea wrote something along the lines that new statisticians should follow the way Cunliffe does things. He says that important information of an experiment often gets lost in the relay of the data back to the analyzer. So, statisticians are none to do it all: getting the data, analyzing it, and telling people about it.
The next part that I find very interesting is all the people that statisticians and mathematicians deal with. Cunliffe said that she and others in her field must be flexible.
"We have to be prepared to switch from helping a microbiologist in the production of a new strain of yeast; to helping an agriculturist to assess the dung-producing qualities resulting from the intake of particular cattle fields; to discussing with a virologist the production of antibodies to Newcastle disease; to help a medical officer assess the effects on health of dust in malt stores; to advising an engineer about his experiments involving a mass-produced article moving along a conveyor belt; to applying queuing theory to the canteen; or to helping a sociologist test his theories about group behavior".
All of these other careers sound very interesting too and I wouldn't mind at all being able to still be a part of all of them even being in a totally different field.
I think it's really cool how much mathematicians get to interact with many different types of people. It's especially important because it's that much more information and resources to use in everyday work from people in different careers.
Also, along with the whole flexibility characteristic is being able to work in different areas and to be creative in any and every area of activity. I think that I could live up to all these "expectations" that are characteristically stereotypes of statisticians and mathematicians. It might take a while to get used to and comfortable with talking to so many people but I think it's definitely manageable.
Anyway, Cunliffe liked her job there because she didn't like sitting at a desk and looking at data sent to her from field scientists. She liked to go out into the agricultural side of the business and get the data for herself. The author in this section of The Lady Tasting Tea wrote something along the lines that new statisticians should follow the way Cunliffe does things. He says that important information of an experiment often gets lost in the relay of the data back to the analyzer. So, statisticians are none to do it all: getting the data, analyzing it, and telling people about it.
The next part that I find very interesting is all the people that statisticians and mathematicians deal with. Cunliffe said that she and others in her field must be flexible.
"We have to be prepared to switch from helping a microbiologist in the production of a new strain of yeast; to helping an agriculturist to assess the dung-producing qualities resulting from the intake of particular cattle fields; to discussing with a virologist the production of antibodies to Newcastle disease; to help a medical officer assess the effects on health of dust in malt stores; to advising an engineer about his experiments involving a mass-produced article moving along a conveyor belt; to applying queuing theory to the canteen; or to helping a sociologist test his theories about group behavior".
All of these other careers sound very interesting too and I wouldn't mind at all being able to still be a part of all of them even being in a totally different field.
I think it's really cool how much mathematicians get to interact with many different types of people. It's especially important because it's that much more information and resources to use in everyday work from people in different careers.
Also, along with the whole flexibility characteristic is being able to work in different areas and to be creative in any and every area of activity. I think that I could live up to all these "expectations" that are characteristically stereotypes of statisticians and mathematicians. It might take a while to get used to and comfortable with talking to so many people but I think it's definitely manageable.
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