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I know these are normally depressing, but this exchange between a girl and her TA was heartening:

G: Yeah, logs are pretty fantatsic. TA: They’re pretty cool. G: They made playing violin more fun. TA: How do logs connect to playing the violin? G: The notes that you play, on the string, where they are proceeds logarithmically. ¹ TA: No way. G: Yeah! It’s like the energy levels in an atom. TA: I had no idea.

And the student had just taken a test and they weren’t freaking out and the TA was nice and things weren’t perverted.

1. For more about this, here’s a pretty good explanation about what’s going on when you play the violin. [↩]