Universal Tattoos Essay

I chose to get Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation tattooed on me for a couple of reasons. Firstly, people often get tattoos to commemorate a difficult or significant time in their life, whether it’s the signature of a passed loved one or the footprint of a new baby. For me, this formula I chose represents the struggle I had to overcome in physics class. Worrying about having an A- versus an A+ seems superficial, but physics is the first class that I have ever genuinely struggled in, and it was very discouraging and frustrating at first to be constantly handed back grades that were far from what I was used to. Now that the class is nearly over, I look back at all the nights I spent studying into the early hours of the morning and see that I am a much better student than I was at the beginning of the

One reason I was always panicking in physics was that the formulas all look generally the same, with lots of letters, especially “r”s, all grouped in together without reason. It made looking at my formula sheet overwhelming. In the same way, often when I have too many responsibilities that I am trying to juggle, whether it is school, work, church, or tennis, it is easy for me to get overwhelmed by everything. However, I know life is not going to slow down until I get myself back in order, so I deal with whatever situation that gets thrown my way by looking for the constants. In physics, most formulas have a constant, a variable whose value never changes, that I never have to worry about figuring out, and that makes solving a problem much easier. In this formula, “G” is the universal gravitational constant. That means that no matter where in the universe I am, “G” is always the same. In life, “G” is my parents, siblings, and friends. Regardless of what I am facing in life, I know that they will always be there to help me sort out the unknown variables when it feels like my life is getting out of