Having spent a few (egads) years in a math department recently, I've developed a deep appreciation for this comic! Sorry, but the scan ain't so good.

More Foxtrot - which is handsdown the best strip (since the departure of Calvin and Hobbes, :-( ) can be found at www.foxtrot.com - check it out!

Need to do an integral? Check out Wolfram's The Integrator.

MATH SUKS by Jimmy Buffett, from Beach House on the Moon If necessity is the mother of invention The I'd like to kill the guy who invented this. The numbers come together in some kind of a third dimension A regular algebraic bliss. Let's start with something simple, like one and one ain't three Any two plus two will never get yo five. There are fractions in my subtraction and x don't equal y But my homewoek is bound to multiply. Math suks math suks I'd like to burn this textbook, I hate this stuff so much. Math suks math suks Sometimes I think that I don't know that much But math suks. I got so bored with my homework, I turned on the TV. The beauty contest winners were all smiling through their teeth. Then they asked the new Miss America Hey babe can you add up all those bucks? She looked puzzled, then just said, "Math suks". Math suks math suks You don't even have to spell it, All you have to do is yell it... Math suks math suks Sometimes I think that I don't know that much But math suks. Geometry, trigonometry and if that don't tax your brain The are numbers too big to be names. Numerical precision is a science with a mission And I think it's gonna drive me insane. Parents fighting with their children, and the Congress can't agree Teachers and their students are all jousting constantly. Management and labor keep rattling old sabres Qucking like those Peabody ducks. Math suks math suks You don't even have to spell it, All you have to do is yell it... Math suks math suks Sometimes I think that I don't know that much But math suks.

MY WRITINGS Well, actually, I don't have any yet. But who knows, maybe I'll get my MS Thesis written at some point. In the meantime, I do have some things to say about Jimmy's song, and maybe, like my thesis, I'll get them written someday. :-)

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