28 Feb

Algebra and I do NOT AGREE

Author: Devyl Gyrl / Category: Friends / Family, Frustration, School

For some reason, as long as I am progressing from one type of problem to the next, I grab onto the concepts easily and can move through them. When you start jumping around and asking me one type of question, then go back 8 chapters for another, then jump ahead 18 chapters for the next … I can’t follow along. Yes, I know the point is to ensure that we know how to do the problems without relying on our text. Guess what? I’m not capable of doing that.

I don’t know why it takes me hours to do one chapter of homework. I don’t know why the concepts that seem perfectly straightforward when I’m reading the chapter are so difficult to apply to the chapter questions. I just know that I will not - I repeat: WILL NOT - be getting into any kind of job where I have to use algebra. Period. Not sure what that leaves … pushing paper, I guess (as long as it is not in the Accounting Department). Dammit. I don’t want to be a paper pusher. I’ll have to think on this a while.

Thank you, Beav … you saved my butt. I still had to figure out all the equations after you gave me the help you gave, but I was able to understand how these problems correlate to my actual chapter once you told me what you did. Love you!

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