Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Your headphones are too loud, I don't want to hear it" -lab aide
Calculus is going to have to wait. I finally did it. I dropped my Trigonometry class again. I will be able to keep my book for next semester this time though. I don’t really understand it. Math typically comes pretty easy to me. I just have not been able to wrap my noodle ‘round radians and angle functions as well as I think I should be able to. Part of me thinks it may be because I have a few too many things going on this semester, but another part of me thinks this is the second time around, and I should get it by now. Either way, when I finally did drop the class after getting my second “F” on a test I felt a phenomenal sense of defeat. I have not decided yet if I dropped it more so to preserve my GPA or just because I might be able to understand it better next time around. I thought I would feel a little bit of relief when I did drop this class, like it was one less thing I had to worry about every day. I feel more disappointed in myself than relieved right now though, so it kind of bums me out. I guess that is the price I pay for being a perfectionist of sorts. :P
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Yeah, I hear you brother. I dropped Spanish twice, actually unofficially withdrew the second time, because of "F's". But guess what, the sun is shining, spring is coming (or already here in some climates) and life goes on. You did the right thing. Maybe next year. Who knows. :)
Math has never really come easy to me- I always have to give kudos to anyone who's taking higher math courses than college algebra. I do have a strange desire to someday go back to school and really give math a fair shake though- I feel like I was always having a hard time justifying the effort when I was in school. I also struggle with it when I have difficulty finding the application for whatever it is that's going on in class. Send me to a physics class and I can get the problems done in no time. I guess it's just the kind of thinker I am. I wish I could give you some insight into Trigonometry, but to be perfectly honest, that word means about as much to me as the words I have to type to get this comment to post- today it's bikxaazi.
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