When people ask what my major is and I tell them, I either get an "Oh, good for you!" or an "I am so sorry."

It is usually the baby boomer and older generations who love the idea of me being a math major. The younger generations, I have noticed, tend not to enjoy math or have an outstandingly high respect for it, and therefore, they feel sorry for me.

However, people should not feel sorry for me. I am a math major, and I am not sorry for myself because I love it. If I hated math, then I would not even be taking further courses in this fantastic subject. I have always had a way with numbers and have understood them better than I have ever understood people. They are my friends, and I love them.

I think math is a terrific major because not only can I do a lot of things with it, but it helps me to understand the world and the way it works. The way calculations and formulas work scream "God" in my ear because there is no other way that it could be possible to do such amazing things with numbers except through the Higher Power (pun intended).

He is a God of order, and you can further see His divine through the creation of the universe when taking numbers and applying it to everyday life and the way everything from how a lightbulb in your house turns on to the orbit of planets and beyond. People can solve crimes, win wars, cure diseases, and explore outer space with help from numbers and math equations.

Math and numbers are gifts from God. Without them, we would not have very much technology, and smallpox and other terrible diseases would still be around. I am not trying to give all of the credit to math specifically but to applied math.

Think about all of the mathematical equations it took to make these kinds of vaccines, looking at the patterns of chemicals interacting with each other in specific ways, how to make an iPhone turn on, how a car works.

These are just a small fraction (heh) of examples that involve numbers in some way. Without them, we would have to estimate everything, and there would be no guarantee we are giving somebody the right amount of medication or giving a circuit the right amount of power to turn on a television safely.

Some may treat the subject of math as a library in the world. Mathematicians give equations to scientists who need to figure out something, who want to make the world a better place. Mathematicians give politicians numbers and equations so that they can do their job by making our country better and improving our economy.

Even the history majors get math when looking at the Egyptian pyramids and how precise they are. So you don't know where you'll use math in the real world except for if you decide to become a math teacher? The answer is simple: everywhere.