Tomorrow I am going to take my grade 11 advanced exam. I'm a bit nervous about it. This is because I need to decide soon whether I want Calculus and Physics next year or Biology and History. I'm afraid that I'm not smart enough to take Calculus, although there is not any reason to think that. My math mark has always been in the low nineties, even in the advanced class.
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, recently wondered why there aren't more women in top math and physics positions. He said that it could be because of the roles we are raised from, or genetics. I think there may be a third reason that has not been said. There are many intelligent girls in my Math class who don't the inclination to take further math. I think the reason that this is because they think math is nerdy, and looking at the people in my math class, they would get that impression.
Anyway, it's weird that I'm so into math when I'm such a daydreamer. You'd think that with all the writing and reading I do my favourite subject would be English, but it's not. English is too subjective, it's hard to be taught. At least with Math you know when you're right.