[baldfat]

> even calculus dull and uninspiring

Calculus is totally based on the teacher. I had an awesome Calculus teacher (He actually was a Physicians Assistant and had degrees from Yale and Harvard but volunteered at my small Christian School). He taught me first class why calculus was awesome by challenging use that everything else in math was fake numbers. Showed us the difference between 1/3 and 0.33333 and studying the speed of two trains word problem was always wrong. He than stated that with Calculus you could see the world as we see it. We than used functions all semester long that would eventually get "exact" and it was an awesome ride. To bad we had 3 students and the other 2 were total math geniuses and got perfect math scores on their SATs. They always made me feel like an idiot.