D2s Fun Friday Five, Math Edition

[greybeta]

[Poll #683998]

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[odclay.livejournal.com]

I'm not terribly fond of math, but I can understand it well enough. Up until calculus. I figured I would take calculus in high school because that was the next step in the math curriculum, and it was frickin' pointless. I understood some of it, but as the semester continued, I started getting daily headaches. When daily heartburn and bile rising in the throat started setting in, I realized enough was enough, and dropped out of the class after the semester ended.

I'm taking trigonometry in college because I ran out of time during my college placement test and never finished the math section. So they think I'm not so good at math. Like I care...

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

The five hour calculus class I took my freshman year of college is what forced me to change majors. I aced calculus in high school, and was tutoring my friends during my freshman year. Somehow I was only pulling a C grade in my class while they were pulling in As.

I looked at their tests and said "man, this test is so frigging easy!" When I approached my teacher about her testing methodology, she said her goal is to try to trick her students.

I grew so irritated by her and the class that I dropped engineering in favor of communications. Which I put to stellar use in my professional life.

I'm a computer programmer.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I had one professor who thought it was her mission to make sure we knew the material forwards, backwards and sideways. Which would be fine...if her class was the only one I was taking. This meant that I never had enough time to keep up with her torrid pace.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Heh, you would take the easy way out. ;)