Reply #27: I know an absolutely brilliant young woman who's [View All]

currently on a full scholarship as a math major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She's always loved math...always known that was the field in which she wished to apply herself.

She's also tall, slender, and beautiful. She's been offered modeling contracts, and could probably be quite successful in that field if she chose to pursue it. But she's never taken any of the offers. She'd miss math too much.

I consider it an uncommon privilege to know her.

My math skills and interests were slow to develop as a child, and I consider my present abilities to be average or maybe slightly above. I occasionally wonder if I'm mathematically dyslexic, particularly where finances are concerned; but I wouldn't say I'm incapable.