Math Majors

Ever since I shared with people that I wanted to study Mathematics, they would say, "Whoa...You want to become a teacher?" And even though in the back of my mind and in my heart, I want to eventually do become a teacher/professor, I noticed that there are a lot of people who are very ignorant to what a mathematicians really do. For instance, all those statistics of your favorite team or presidential candidate...mathematicians. Insurance rates...mathematicians. The probability of what may happen to your stock portfolio...mathematicians. All the things you live with day to day came into being because of Mathematics and the people who perfect it...mathematicians. These people who studied their brains out on these abstract functions with its own language, they hardly ever get the credit. It's always the engineers, scientists, and lawyers. No mathematicians...not even any Math teachers. And these Math teachers should be have more weight to their profession than these non-Math professions. Because who else is going to teach and push these future engineers, scientists to think analytically...History majors?

So if you ever bump into a mathematician or a Math major...don't just say "Whoa...You want to become a teacher?" Find out what kind of Math do they practice...just like how you would ask a lawyer what kind of law does he/she practice. Because we aren't as boring, allegedly, as we look and rumored to be. Just that not many people talk to us because they feel they can't talk our language...where in fact, you really do.