Artifacts

This here is my TI- 84 Plus CE calculator. I got this when I was going into eighth grade, the first time I ever actually felt “mature” in the sense of taking care of my own responsibilities. This calculator was the first expensive device that I was allowed to take outside of the house, and therefore was a visible proof of my responsibility with physical items. But looking past the physical aspect of this calculator, my utilization of the calculator had shifted. When I was in eighth grade, all I wanted to do on the calculator was to play “Pokemon Red” on it, and I do admit it, it was fun, but as I learned more and more maths from school as the years progressed, my utilization of this calculator was less for games and more for curiosity. The more maths I learned, the more applications that came along with it and the more functions of the calculators I learned about. I just stopped downloading apps, and instead, I was more preoccupied with learning the different functions of the calculator and how they worked. One function that particularly caught my eye was the graphing ability of the calculator. I played around with different modes of the calculator, different functions, different windows and learned how to graph interesting looking graphs. Although they weren’t of much practical use, it sparked my curiosity for maths because of how intricate and complex it was. In addition, my overall curiosity increased for other aspects of life because I started to question more, and wanted to learn more in rather than just to take it for granted. So this one simply advanced machine, has lead me to a passion that has shaped who I am today, a person who questions and learns just for the fun of it.

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