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The "Doodling in Math Class" series by Vi Hart is pure mindblow. First this girl's like "heymathclassisboringrightthat'swhyIdoodle" and I'm like "sure yeah" and she's like "idrawstarsandyoujustlearnedwhyfactoringiscool" and I'm like "lolwut" and she's like "let'sdrawfractalsintheshapeofAbrahamLincoln" and I'm like "swoon" and she's like "pythonjoke!"

Vi keeps making these videos about how math classes are boring because teachers are bad at showing why the concepts are fun, and then she doodles and at some point you realize that she's teaching why math is fun through the doodles. Vi also paints in oils and composes music.

Nerd queens are the best, because they talk fast and they say things like "math is fun" and sometimes they actually convince you, and they have lisps and they probably have dorky taste in music, but you stick around for a while and you listen to the Dr. Demento show with them and sometimes you're mean about them behind their backs, but after a few years you realize everyone else is still as dumb as they were in high school and these nerd girls have grown into real women, and while all of your friends go to the bar to escape the arm candy they married, you and your nerd girl are at home playing Settlers of Catan with this old flame of hers from chess club, and twenty years later you realize life has been great ever since you started not caring if people think you're nerdy and just enjoyed how damn cool the world is.

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