...I earned my Bachelor's in Classical Studies and Religion from Cornell College and hold a Master's of Theological Studies from Harvard. I taught for a semester in a junior high spoken language classroom and am an accomplished Hellenist and Latinist. I am passionate about teaching students how to think about religion as a social and legal force in the ancient world. (read more)
...I have done well in them. It is subject that keeps track of atomic weights and models about where electrons go (relative to the octet rule). Understanding them and the physical models of how elements get combined into compounds go a long way to satisfy what goes on in the subject. Geometry takes a few self-evident truths as axioms, and builds geometric "proofs" out of logical deduction. (read more)