When you look back on all your time spent in math classes in your human life, you can probably remember a lot of the questions teachers asked you over the years, or at least the general nature of them. Most of them were equation or theorem based, and every now and then you were just plain stumped. Still, I’m guessing none of those questions were quite as disarming as when these girls were asked to describe what it feels like to do math, simply because we don’t often think about how the process of math makes us “feel.”

The video focuses on women of all ages describing the sensation, and their words are both poignant and empowering. Math is so often the subject we most complain about that we don’t always consider the rush that comes with finding a solution, or give ourselves enough props where props are due for overcoming it.