Growing up my favorite subject was mathematics.
The beauty of math is the fact that its applicable to almost anything in the world. In computer science, you need math. Economics? You need math. Finance? Chemistry? Biology? Physics? Math is always there.
Math is universal, people who spoke different native languages will understand math notation such as x = 5. but i doubt it for other subject, such as biology, chemistry, etc. Different country might have different way of explaining it.
It still is my favorite but history has grown on me as well. The conquests of the plunderers, the adventurers. How a few people in the past were actually close to taking over the entire world fascinates me. And then there were the world wars. Oh, the world wars. The all encompassing wars. How humans were hell bent on destroying their own kind. There are a lot of lessons to be learnt from the pages of history. You know how they say : History repeats itself. Having a prior knowledge of that can't be bad, Fact is often stranger than fiction, which makes history fascinating to study. There are a lot of things in history that would be considered way too unbelievable for Hollywood or Broadway that actually happened.
Like that time Britain went to war with China over the rights to sell illegal drugs. Twice.
The stories in history class, along with seeing how events that seem so far in our past reverberate into the present day is fascinating to me. My only complaint with History is that with how fast the curriculum has to move, that we don’t get enough time to cover things in too much detail. But, I’ve got the internet in case I find something that’s interesting to me, that we only spend half a class period on. Like the entire Vietnam War.
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