Monthly Archives: June 2011

One of the last novels I taught this year was Life of Pi. Early on in the narrative, Pi explains his notion that freedom is mistakenly correlated with happiness. “I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion. Well-meaning but misinformed people think animals in the wild are ‘happy’Continue reading “the unknown: ‘adventure beckons!’”

Yesterday was the last official day of work at our high school… and it was my last day as a teacher there as my future plans are taking a new turn. It was a significant ending. And endings open the flood of other endings like a storm surge. Last week, I was grading a batchContinue reading “when it ends, it pours”

I love my students and appreciate how hard it is to be introduced to something completely new. What we know seems so obvious and we forget how hard it was to learn and remember it in the first place. Nonetheless, some of them have done a good job (inadvertently) of amusing me on their finalContinue reading “iambic pentameter”

#18: The number of dimensions we can perceive is the number of dimensions from 1st to 3rd. 1st being defined with length but no width… by which we can infer that the “zero-th” dimension is just a point in space with neither width nor length. Based on the first dimension, we can create a secondContinue reading “dimensions part ii”

We live in 3-dimensions… with the added dimension of time making it four… or so it seems. Apparently, this answer is not as simple as it appears. We all can easily comprehend three dimensions. In geometry and art classes, we learned to draw cubes that replicated our experience of space on the flat plane ofContinue reading “perspectives on dimension”