What Is It Like to Be a Math Major?

[MostlyHarmless]

I'm a math major, in my senior year, and periodically, in conversation with someone they would try and ask me what I do as a math major, and I've not really been able to give an answer that someone that isn't a math major understands. But after spending a lot of time spinning my wheels on a proof, I came up with what its like to be a math major, to me.

Being a math major, is spending 3 hours banging your head(figuratively and literally) on a table trying to reconcile an equality, only to find that the minus sign screwing you up is an eyelash or an imperfection on the paper or a spec on your glasses. And the exercise turns out to be trivial.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I feel like this could be turned into a Facebook meme :D

 

[MostlyHarmless]

Might be too wordy for a meme, but I'd be amused by one