Problem

“Would it help to know that the apples are spherical and the boat is an infinite frictionless plane?”

Pythagoras

My new band will be called Pythagoras and the Vegetarian Math Cult.

Field

“I don’t want to talk about that. It’s ancient history.”

“Really? Ancient history is all I want to talk about!

Rally

The philosophy department always has the best protest chants.

“What do we want?”

“Who are we?”

“Why are we here?”

“What’s our purpose in life?”

Trigger

Unless there was some great massacre of coefficients by exponents that I haven’t heard about.

People are wonderful, but people are also awful.  There’s no way around it.  If you can’t bear to think about the awful things people can do to one another, then don’t take courses that are about people.