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June 29, 2002
If I had known how
If I had known how much everything weighed, I would never have chosen to be a math geek. With this Teaching Fellows Math Immersion program, I quickly discovered that my trusty 1980's solar calculator clearly wasn't up to the task of calculating probabilities. Because they give geeky math teachers discounts, I ordered a Texas Instruments 83PlusAV. Without even seeing it, I already knew it was going to be frightening, plus it cost me 90 bucks!
When the box arrived, I knew that my future profession is going to isolate me from the world of sparkling conversation and social interaction. It weighs five pounds easily. I open it up, and it has more attachments and manuals than my laptop purchase of a year ago. The "Getting Started" booklet is SIXTY PAGES. This isn't the actual manual, this is the "Barely touching the surface" booklet. This monster has video output, this huge screen, and more buttons than an engineer has dates. I'm not the kind of person to read a manual, so I guess I won't be able to take over the world with it, unless I find that one key.
Posted by G at June 29, 2002 08:42 PM