Author: Marie Pruitt

Would you rather listen to this post instead? Check out the podcast version here: Two truths and a lie: The road to my disciplinary identity has been paved with curiosity, bad assumptions, and lots of side quests. My first intellectual infatuation wasn’t language or literature, but mathematics. While I struggled with the memorization required in my elementary and middle school math classes (I still don’t know my times tables or how to do long division), it all started to click for me in high school. I did well in statistics, algebra, and geometry, but what I enjoyed the most was…