Small Stone

Calculus means “small stone” in Latin, as in a small, painful stone stuck in your shoe as you’re trying to journey from point A to point B, a small painful stone that plagues you during the period of years from 1984 to 1996 when you carry that damn thing in your shoe trying to get your degree in Physics.

But, dammit, I still want to master it!

(And I still have that dream where I fail the Calc III final exam … though I’m not always naked when I do so. Just half the time.)