I took a Logic class and we were taught that life is rather formulaic:

AandB are true, only if A is true and B is true, etc.

But my professor sounded like this:

In the proposition "If P then Q," the occurrence of P is sufficient reason for the occurrence of Q. P, as an individual or a class, materially implicates Q, but the relation of Q to P is such that the converse proposition "If Q then P" does not necessarily have sufficient condition. Thus, modus ponens.

That is so logical it sounds illogical. My peers and I then began applying logical fallacies, etc. to “better understand” the mathematics of a class I chose specifically because there was no "math.” I obviously didn’t check that the class not only filled a philosophy requirement, but also the sole math requirement. As an English and Writing major, I got a C+, and I am proud of that.

So when my next professor asked my new Rhetoric class to give examples of logical fallacies, I frantically scrambled together everything I had chucked the semester before from Logic. After failing to remember things, I decided that the best course of action was to memorize a few fallacies by applying my own experiences to them, just to better remember some of them.

• I had a boyfriend back in high school, and my sister could not wrap her head around our relationship. So one day she finally asks me, “Why are you even still with him?” And I say something along the lines of his personality, his mind, his humor. And she just smirks at me and says, “Fine, but you’re stupid.” Ad hominem fallacy.
• I wanted to go out one night and then stay over with a couple friends of mine, guys, girls. And so after strategically waiting for Mom's Good Mood, I casually threw out the proposal and she just looks up, leans back, looks at my father, and says, “These kids nowadays want to be having sleepovers with the opposite sex in large groups, and who knows what comes next. My own daughter is going to be a polygamist.” Slippery slope fallacy, Mom, slippery slope.
• I saw a kid out one night who told me that, “Nature is good and weed is natural, and if weed is legal, then heroin should too be legal because it’s natural and so it’s good.” Appeal to nature fallacy. And also negating any medical statistics.
• I figured out the modern example of "Do you still beat your wife?" when a girl I didn’t know too well–but well enough–asked me, “Do you think my boyfriend is hot?” Loaded question fallacy. Tip: the only answer that should ever be given if you have to give one is "Yes, but he isn't my type."
• I had to panically phone to cancel plans one night: “I’m sorry, tonight just isn’t a good night; I’m so stressed because I have three papers and one exam all within two days of each other.” To which he said, “Oh, so you don’t have time for me.” If your significant other ever quotes back to you your own words, be sure it isn’t a straw man fallacy.

When I arrived at my second college, I was told my Logic class didn’t transfer over and so therefore I needed to take another math class. So I irritatedly arranged a meeting with my possible math professor; we have a good thing going and so I jokingly threw out, “So there are those who are good at math and those who avoid it at all costs, and I myself am in the latter group; you can't save me!” And she turned to me and said, “More possibilities exist than just those two groups. Black-or-white fallacy.”

I fulfilled my final math requirement.