algebra...

Faccia di Angelo · 09-03-2005

I would have helped out but I can't. Math scares me. Although I did like Algebra out of all of them. But you shouldn't feel bad about it. You're a very smart guy.

*Math story*

I remember once in HS we were asked by my Chemistry teacher if we wanted extra points on one of our exams if we tried out for our Academic Decathalon team. I thought what the , I could use some extra points. So I took the test required kinda just blowing through it not giving it much thought and when he graded them he said I scored really high, what he considered the cream of the crop and wanted me to try out for a slot over the summer. So I did, since I was a book worm during HS and thought it would be worth a shot. Everything went pretty good until we got to the Math part and into Trig and that's when I hit a wall. It would just not register for the life of me! I couldn't grasp it. I remember moments when we would be studying and I would be hearing people say, "ahh, yes. Okay, I get it. Ohhh..I see it now!" And I'm sitting there thinking, WTF are you seeing??! I don't see it! While staring at the chalk board it felt like I was looking at one of those paintings real popular a few years back where you had to stare for a long while to see the picture show up. Only nothing ever showed up for me.

I felt so dumb

Thats when I knew for sure Math was my enemy. I ended up dropping tryouts after that. It wasn't for me, and it didn't help either that all those people wanted to do every day all summer was just study. I just wasn't cool with that.