For my Quantitative Reasoning Pillar, I took MATH 135 with Thomas Wears. As someone who is not often confident in mathematics, I thoroughly enjoyed this class from beginning to end.

Wears was quick, witty, and sarcastic – which kept the entire class on our toes and also kept the energy up for the fifty minutes of class time. The curriculum centered around “mathematical modeling of finances” and I can truly vouch that I got so much out of this class. With algebraic application, it taught me valuable, “real-life” math principals that will be vital to my financial future (savings investments, mortgage and student loan repayments, retirement income, etc.)

One of the things I found most challenging but also most valuable from this course were our three writing assignments – not only did we have to do the math, but we had to explain it in non-mathematical terms (not just talking through the algorithms, but what do those algorithms MEAN?) to illustrate our understanding of the content.