Speaking Tangentially

Season two baby!!! Bet you didn't see that one coming did ya! Your internationally acclaimed host Cectheplug sits down with a dear college friend, Riemannian Reuben, to discuss all things math for this very special episode.

Cecelia’s brother Hunton joins her on this episode to talk about math classes in college. He tells of how his prior math education set him up for calc 1, 2, and 3. Attending Colorado College, he takes his classes one at a time, in an intensive structure called ‘the block plan'. The host and guest discuss the opportunities and struggles that these blocks set up for taking higher math and science courses.

Cecelia's mom talks about her early misadventures in the world of math and how she now uses math to be a run a business and even make wine! We learn that it is never too late to learn math.

Host Cecelia sits down with Gaussian Elimination Gareth who is back from college all the way over at the University of Edinburgh. He discusses the ins and outs of civil engineering, what happens when beams bend, and how important matrices are in higher mathematics. Listen in for a riveting episode on the life of a college freshman studying math! 

Cecelia sits down with her friend Will to talk about how math factors into his life. He has opted out of math his senior year of high school to pursue another interest: sewing. What math carries from the classroom onto the sewing machine? Listen to find out more.