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"You don't need to go to a museum to appreciate art. It's like going
to a zoo to see animals. There's something fundamentally wrong about
it."

To Kill A Mockingbird With Linear Equations

I remember the painful day that I decided to abandon my budding literary career despite my obvious talents to pursue the harsh engineering subjects, simply because I could NOT tolerate the subjectiveness and unpredictability and inconsistency and total injustice of my secondary school literature teacher's grading style. I decided that numbers were safer.

UNTIL we've recently suffered the most injust grading process EVER, in an ENGINEERING CLASS, by a full fledged ENGINEERING professor, whose appreciation of our quantitative and scientific methods might as well have been that of a train conductor's appreciation of Picasso - i.e. random. And it's not even random with a proper distribution, mean and variance, it's a randomness that will terrify Brownian motion scientists and Chaos Theory mathematicians.

So why did I abandon what I thought were the unpredictable arts for a "science" that is even more subjective and misunderstood? Are physics laws really more like Murphy's laws or the 5th amendment? Should I have instead embarked on a stellar career of writing haikus and fanfiction and substandard chinese xiaolianbis?

The weirdest thoughts occur to you on the last day of your education career.