[Magdalen] Philae has landed!

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In a message dated 11/12/2014 6:05:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:

Basically that's why I didn't become an astronomer....too damn much  math.
OTOH, if I'd had decent math teachers in high school, I might  have
continued, but my algebra teacher freshman year would bore the  [essentials]
off a brass monkey, and my geometry teacher the next year  couldn't teach a
two year old to open and close a door....so I couldn't  wait to get out of
there.>>>
 
It is one of the great enigmas for me that I whizzed through high  school
algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, then set the curve in two  semesters
of calculus, but then hated college physics, and had to work hard to  get
through it with at least decent grades to keep up my grade-point for
entering medical school (It was 3.85 and the year I was accepted to
medical school the cut-off was 3.7).  
 
After all, physics is just applied math, but my brain didn't function  that
way.
 
Then again, there was the strange situation never before encountered
by me, which was that my college math instructor, a graduate student
Jewish girl from Brooklyn, was hitting on me (romantically).  My  friends
began to refer to us as "Dave and Joannie".  I somehow got away  from
that before anything happened.
 
 
David Strang.