(Late) Weekly Assignment #3

The three topics that caught my eye were

1. Euler's constant, because, as you know, I am an extreme math nerd. I bet you all (Elias, Allen, Casey, Mr. Riggs, and Mrs. Taylor) can imagine the scream of joy I let out when I learned that the math this year was NOT geometry-based, but rather based upon algebra. I know too much about polynomials already, however, so there is not much left for me to learn about them. Euler's constant, however, I have never really looked into in depth. I use it periodically in Calculus when discussing natural logs, but the concept and origin, quite frankly, confound me. I am excited to further my knowledge on this topic to better grasp the concept of "e" and finally understand why e^iπ is equal to -1.

2. Analysis of Tolstoy's story "After the Dance," because of my abilities in the short reading section of Literature. I hadn't heard of the other authors, however, but I am aware that Leo Tolstoy is a very famous author (apparently Russian) and so I figure that he contributes greatly to the Russian literature that I am so excited to learn about. I love Russia and want to learn about Russian culture and values. That is all.

3. Soviet Unmanned Missions is, by far, much cooler than whatever history and science nonsense I had no knowledge about last year. The answer is never Hawaii and I think, with this subtopic, that I will be able to remember that rule. I used to work at the museum with Alaina Wiwi actually as part of a student volunteer group that learned about space. We never got too much into the space race stuff, but the stuff we did touch upon was fairly interesting and I hope to understand more how Russia and America contributed to the exploration of our solar system.

Does anyone else like how my longest and most thoughtful response was about Euler's constant?