Calculus taught me the concept of exponential growth and decay. It explains basically the idea of suddenly having so many (or so few) of a certain variable within an amount of time, an idea which you would not be able to comprehend if you thought about it in a linear way. Indeed, this concept is very important if you need to understand how populations (of living things), concentrations (of certain solutions), kinetics (of chemical reactions), and many other things, behave.

Ortigas avenue taught me a similarly important concept: the exponential delay. Allow me to exlpain this using the following data.


Lesson learned? Time is gold.. No. Time is platinum.