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When You Do A Lot Of Acting Your Entire Life, You See The Entire Set From One Point Of View. To Have A Chance To Step Back And Pull It All Together Is Really Exciting. You Want To Do It All; You Want To Have A Hand In Everything.

When Girls Are Asking Themselves 'who Am I?' For The First Time And They Hear All This Bad Pr About Math, They Think, 'well, Whoever I Am, I'm Not Somebody Who Likes Math.'

The Fun Little Proofs That You Can Do With Algebra - They Are Sort Of Like Crowd Pleasers In A Way. Like, The .9 Repeating Equaling One. It Doesn't Take A Lot Of Algebra To Prove That, And It's Really Fun. It Kind Of Wows People. It's Like They're Watching Magic Happen Right Before Their Eyes.

Most Of The Time I Liked School And Got Good Grades. In Junior High, Though, I Hit A Stumbling Block With Math - I Used To Come Home And Cry Because Of How Frustrated I Was! But After A Few Good Teachers And A Lot Of Perseverance, I Ended Up Loving Math And Even Choosing It As A Major When I Got To College.

One Of The Most Amazing Things About Mathematics Is The People Who Do Math Aren't Usually Interested In Application, Because Mathematics Itself Is Truly A Beautiful Art Form. It's Structures And Patterns, And That's What We Love, And That's What We Get Off On.