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In math class, we're studying about Lipschitz functions... for some reason, whenever we get to that section, I get a picture in my head, not of a function though. Sometimes I wonder if Lipschitz functions are really of that great of importance. I think that they put it in textbooks just so that teachers can discipline giggly students. Because, once you giggle you're inappropriate... But really, who wouldn't just start to laugh out loud? I mean, it's a good thing he went to school in Germany... cuz I think he would have committed suicide before graduating if he went to an English-speaking school. But I don't know... there have just been way too many funnies in our Analysis textbook. For instance, when you hear the term "collection of open balls" do you think of numbers? Would you be able to ask any questions about a collection of open balls without laughing? Yeah, me neither. But really, I think these math terms make a lot of people in the class uncomfortable with saying them. Even our professor. You can tell that shes holding a laugh in, because when she says open ball, she pauses briefly pauses, lowers the volume of their voice, and when she says it, it almost seems like pulling a band-aid off.

I'm not really trying to complain about Math class, cuz I really do love math... it's just with the whole notion of choosing scientific-sounding terms in non-math classes, the ambiguity of math terms kind of throws you off-guard. And it kind of makes you to start to think of fucked up alternate meanings or analogies... like, if a set is discrete - you could say it's in the closet. Or if an open ball is centered at a limit point then it has infinitely many elements - kind of like the infinitely many sperm guys have in their balls.. I don't know. Math makes me think though. :-)