It's nice to have you back, Matt. There was quite a bit of radio silence for a while there.
So I have a big problem with that website, but only with the picture that you posted. Michael Jordan was NOT a math major. He was a geography major. I think that he thought about being a math major for while when he was a freshman, but he switched out. I can't go around saying that I was a chemical engineering major, can I? That's what I thought when I was a freshman, but then I changed to math.
This is slightly more than me just being an up-tight basketball geek. I think that it is important to be honest with people, especially if you are in the process of persuading them to do something (like be a mathematician). Spouting half-truths is a good way to lose trust and interest, and, frankly, we don't NEED Michael Jordan to be a math major.
One last comment, this time only because I am an up-tight basketball geek: Michael Jordan was NOT cut from his high school basketball team. There was a rule that said only upperclassmen could be on varsity, and so he didn't play on varsity until he was old enough. This is different from "being cut."
It's nice to have you back,
It's nice to have you back, Matt. There was quite a bit of radio silence for a while there.
So I have a big problem with that website, but only with the picture that you posted. Michael Jordan was NOT a math major. He was a geography major. I think that he thought about being a math major for while when he was a freshman, but he switched out. I can't go around saying that I was a chemical engineering major, can I? That's what I thought when I was a freshman, but then I changed to math.
This is slightly more than me just being an up-tight basketball geek. I think that it is important to be honest with people, especially if you are in the process of persuading them to do something (like be a mathematician). Spouting half-truths is a good way to lose trust and interest, and, frankly, we don't NEED Michael Jordan to be a math major.
One last comment, this time only because I am an up-tight basketball geek: Michael Jordan was NOT cut from his high school basketball team. There was a rule that said only upperclassmen could be on varsity, and so he didn't play on varsity until he was old enough. This is different from "being cut."