Procrastinating For the Gre

It was my plan to set aside this past week to prepare for the Quantitative Graduate Record Exam. A week ago this seemed like a big number for ample review, time set aside from more typical U.S. autumn events, like electing a white male economic supremacist for President, after having taken a 12 year break from all those irrational remainders. I have always thought math should be revolutionary, climatic, resonantly resolving like rainbow harmonies of scale, profoundly correlational with geometric truths as algebraic beauty, and I suppose it may be all those good things yet this week math feels suspiciously snarky and sinister, replete with far more ways to go wrong than right. So today I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t bother with these mysterious Quantities of testing. Although I did well forty years ago and didn’t know any more or less about mathematical machinations then than now. Or so I thought until I actually opened up the GRE review section. When did math become so monochromatically dull, devoid of plot and anything resembling metaphysical charisma? Soon I found the verbal questions much more edifying. Well, OK, not really that, but more entertaining than watching formulas dry and principles march in relentless mind-numbing LeftBrain dominant lock-step. It took years of ecotherapy to overcome white male LeftBrain dominance and now, so late in life, discovering I don’t even miss it any more or less than zero-sum WinLose economics. But, I think I will visit the Quantitative section day after tomorrow Say goodbye to old friends I’ve never had occasion to use or abuse due to relentless negative correlational neglect. It might be fun to see if I guess as well as I used to when I was still young enough to believe metric right or wrong could possibly matter. Now I know it’s just not true except for statistical analysis, which is at least as much about the politics of subjective Electoral College economics, as objective rules of fair and accurately cooperative procedures, verified as reified by all.