020: i want some intelligantactile 101
I suppose a question that runs through every student's mind is, "When am I ever going to use this?" Perhaps, even more cynically, one might wonder, "What's the point of it all?" I, for one, certainly have had my own moments of questioning about my fair share of classes in the past. In fact, I have another one every time I step into the classroom of a certain requisite class with which we are all familiar.

However, I would posit that not all knowledge necessarily requires a practical application. I simply cannot fathom a situation in which I might need to know that Olea laurifolia sinks in water or that there are at least sixty different ethnic groups in the Côte d'Ivoire alone, but aren't they nice things to know? Similarly, unless one is an engineer (holla), one may never find a practical use for differential calculus. However, isn't the satisfaction of learning it great enough?

By the by, would anyone in Professor Renfield's exploration class like to study with me? I'm afraid I'm failing I'm not doing as well in the practicals are killing my I haven't got quite as thorough an understanding of the material as I would like.