Is It Too Late to Change Majors?

Here's the deal.  Kelly Cannon, my niece, has a double major of math and English and I totally get it.

Just think.  There's alot of possibilities in English.  It's wide-open with possibilities.  It's always the wild frontier with discussion, thought, directions.  That's part of why we like it.  Controlled chaos.

Bur there's something vey satisfying about math for just the opposite reasons.  There's just one answer that can finally be found and order is restored to the universe.  And, with math, you can pretty much know when your homework is done.

Rudolph Reese was my Algebra teacher in high school.  He was a fussy, nice guy who used a chalk chuck and still always had chalk dust everywhere at the end of class.  Whenever he was teaching Algebra, I understood it.  I really think I almost thought it was fun.  But whenever I got home, it totally eluded me again.  The mistake I made was being to proud to ask anyone for help.  Particularly my father, who was a Mechanical Engineer, which made him almost a math major.



If I had it to do all over again, I'd maybe give math another shot.  Maybe I'd be good at it, too.  Maybe I would have changed the world with my input into the world of science.  Maybe I'd have made all kinds of money with my math skills and would be responsibile for turning the entire bad financial situation around for not just the United States, but the entire world.  We just won't know, will we?

Stunned by Glory

Surely you've seen Susan Boyle in action. If not, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY right now. It's not so much her voice, which is glorious. It's that she's lived among us, in relative obscurity, and has had such incredible talent under wraps.

I've wondered before if there had been the potential for great music or great writing or great anything among those who were serfs in the dark ages. I wonder if there are talents we have right now that are just not in use at this time. What if I were potentially the greatest charioteer that the world had ever seen, but there's no market, no opportunity and definitely a gender bias going against me.

I'm amazed at Ms. Boyle. But I'm also thrilled at whatever potential might be around us today. Susan Boyle brings tears to my eyes first of all for her alone, but secondly, for all the rest of us and what we really might be.