Harvard University

I was working for four hours and then I realized there was a counter- example and now, well, now it isn’t even true. Maybe…maybe math isn’t for me. I feel like such a waste, four hours of nothing and I’ve gotten nowhere and now what…” I don’t often get to play the big brother role at math camp. This was an exception. I gave Rachel a hug, wiped the tears off her face, pulled a notebook out of my backpack, and began to recount my own experience from the previous summer. After opening it to a page decorated with exclamation points and a huge box around the final line of a proof, I smiled and…