If you can call it that anyways.

Little bit of an introduction of myself. I am currently taking the prerequisite to Engineering Ethics, which is simply Philosophy 100. I am not taking the class very well when it comes to the history.

I have great fun with philosophical questions when I am asked to simply give my own opinion, whether or not I'm actually "right". Its the exercise that seems to be the primary point in all of this, so I just do it and leave it at that.

Last night I solved the squaring of the circle problem, or whatever the heck you call it. My professor said that if anybody could 'solve' it, that he would exempt us from the mid-term exam.

Well, you take the unit circle with the radius of one. Area is pi*r^2. 1^2 is 1, so pi * 1 = pi.

You take a square, all sides equal of course, and make the sides of the square the square root of pi, then of course you multiple two sides together and you have just pi. So the circle = the square.

It's an irrational answer to an impossible question, but the irrational answer is the rational answer regardless of how irrational it is. Funny thing, when I question him if he was serious, he said he wasn't. It's impossible to solve, because to truly solve it you have to do so rationally, or so I assume. But it can't be solved 'rationally', so therefore it is impossible. Even though I solved it. This makes my brain ache.

Anywho, I'm here for assistance through my class, and I'm hoping that the community here can give me that help I am after. The history here just eats my brain for breakfast and I'm close to a college burnout on my 100 level course, which sucks. So I'm going to go post my test study questions somewhere and see if I can get a hand.

Pleased to meet your acquaintances.

--Leu