I failed my first math test today. And I realized the origin of my hate for math... It spawns from the fact that when I don't understand it, there's nothing really I can do to better understand it besides try to understand it more. And there is only one single road to success, and that's the road with the correct fracking answer on the page. It's not like history where if I don't know it then I can use other context clues from other regions or narrow down my options and make up an educated guess. Or english where I can interpret a script and write about it. It's not even you know it or you don't, it's more like is it 2nd nature or not? There's things I know about math and I still can't answer certain things that I guess i "should" know even though half that bullcrap isn't used in daily life anyways.
Time to eat some terrible college food!
/rant.
I feel the same way, brother. The subject of mathematics just forces you to get the "right" answer, when in reality, there aren't too many things with a single right answer. Sorry to hear about the test, but I'm sure your bright mind will be able to bring it back up.
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