My math teacher was right. We do need math, and we will use it a lot in the “real world”. I find myself using math quite often in college, especially toward the end of the semester. I figure out the bare minimum I need to do on the final to achieve each letter grade in…

If you’ve been studying all day, you reach a point late into the evening where your brain says, “Look, I can’t absorb anything else. This is enough for one day. It no longer matters how much caffeine you drink. I’m done.” At one point, “The Planets” by Gustav Holst shuffled into my playlist, and then…

Last week, my dad called me and told me that my grandfather was admitted to the hospital for acute renal failure. He had cancer for some time and had been in and out of the hospital for the past several months, but this instance was different. My dad informed me that he decided to no…