Oh boy, here goes another post about school. Oh come on, you lousy visitor, it is necessary to complete my awe-inspiring, soon-to-be-award-winning CHRONICLES OF WEST MESA “book.” I don’t know how it’ll turn out to be, but I’ll continue adding wizz to it — particularly stuff that occurs in math, because if there was one class that I could deem as intensely insane and godawfully pointless (and teh funny), it would be 3rd period math class.

I’ll make this one short, and I’ll let you respond, heh. So Thayer (recall, recall, my godly math teacher), predictably, says “Okay, we’re gonna do — Oh my gosh, like another group problem! Woot!” And we, ze class, go “Yay… omg I need to suicide already!”

“This one is from a Japanese math book, henceforth, I shall refer to it as The Japanese Problem when we go back to this problem — I want it solved and turned it by the end of class!”

The problem, if you’re wondering, makes us Americans (particularly, us New Mexicans, heheh) look bad… very bad:

Two curves, y = x^3 + ax and y = x^2 + bx + c, pass through the point (1, 2) and have a common tangent line at this point. Find the values of the constants a, b, and c.

This one took me and my group (me and 2 other people, like totally random, yeah) about 5 seconds to understand the problem, and some 15 minutes to figure out the solution (despite us being embarassed out of our pants after seeing how godawfully EASY the solution was). We were the first ones to finish, because we’re good — although they can thank me for it for my mad algebra skillz, bwuhahaha.

All in all, this made me very envious of the Japanese; if this is the kind of math they go through in 11th grade, this wholeheartedly explains why they’re so much more intelligent than us… cUrSES!!! Foiled again! askjfieha;kshheieth;lahskfjeajsfklj!!!

I’ll be updating theme to v1.1 soon. It will include a “Currently Listening To” plugin and various changes and optimizations… nothing big, since it’ll still look black and sexy!