Afternoons of clicking away on Optitex ended last week. Optitex is the pattern-making software I learned how to use during my three-week intensive course, CAD (computer-aided design) for Fashion/Advanced Pattern Making. Optitex has tools for making darts, joining pieces, adding pleats, adding seams, and adding buttons. One of the most confusing things about the program […]
Valentine’s Day. The most romantic, fun-loving holiday there is. How could you be upset on Valentines’s Day? You’re celebrating love, the coolest thing ever. I don’t only mean love romance-wise, but I mean in general. You celebrate the love you have for your family and friends, as well. I personally love this holiday; I love […]
In the last post, we introduced the idea of maps, also known as functions. It’s hard to overstate how important functions are in modern math. Functions make things happen. They explain mathematical relationships. And they make up a language from which mathematical concepts are built. But before we get to anything like that, let’s look at a few more examples. First, we’ll consider […]
Samantha and I have an 8:00 a.m. Italian class Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Our classroom is about a 20 to 30-minute walk, which means we can sleep in a little, but waking up early enough to prepare a simple breakfast is difficult. To congratulate ourselves for attending class, we agreed to go to Fedora “dopo […]
Hi guys! This is my very first QC Voices post of the new semester, welcome back! You can find my last post about bagel shops around Queens here. I’ve decided to dedicate my first post of the new year to a neighborhood that I know relatively well, Rego Park. A few of my really good friends live […]
Dear Son, There’s something you need to learn about your place in the world. Whether you’re straight, gay, transsexual, transgender, gender fluid– it doesn’t matter: you must be aware of rape culture and your role in it. Even if you don’t identify with the male gender, you’re born as a male, and that’s when it […]
Suppose I have a basket of fruits. And a bunch of English words in a dictionary. We can use these two things to build something called a “map,” or “function.”
This spring semester, I’m studying abroad in Florence, Italy. My friend, Samantha, is in the same program too at Florence University of the Arts (FUA). She has a blog about her experience, too! I’m very excited to share my experience with you. Thus, this DIY blog will go in a slightly different direction due to […]
Bagels are bae. I never really understood completely what bae means, but according to Urban Dictionary, its seems to be a good thing. Right…? Bagels are “before anyone/anything else.” Mainly because they’re a breakfast food, consumed before any other meal of the day. Secondly, because they are just so damned delicious and they make people happy. Or […]
Welcome back to the new semester!
I’m going to try something a little different in this post. A lot of my favorite topics to write about have come from people asking me questions about math.
So, here goes: what questions do you have about math?
