Maths, Chemistry and Physics. I understand how you might need to know it later in life but the stuff just went straight over my head. I had no interest in it and therefore, not understanding it, I didn't bother to try.
What's one thing you never understood in school?
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chemistry. especially simplifying chemical equations, moles, and significant figures.
oh, and pretty much all my math past statistics. algebra1, geometry, and prob/stat were all easy, but algebra2 was bullshit. i get how "lower" algebra is useful in regular life, but as a language major, i will NEVER need to know anything about quadratic equations.
oh, and pretty much all my math past statistics. algebra1, geometry, and prob/stat were all easy, but algebra2 was bullshit. i get how "lower" algebra is useful in regular life, but as a language major, i will NEVER need to know anything about quadratic equations.
Pretty much either electron during Science class (I'm normally fine with this subject but the class was behind the others so the teacher rush a few topics which electron was one of them) or this equation in Maths class.
Any math beyond Algebra and Geometry. Calculus and Trigonometry were completely alien to me. I tried really hard to understand the concepts and how to employ the formulas, but logarithms, antilogarithms, sines/cosines/tangents...it was like a foreign language to me.
Speaking of which, I also sucked at learning foreign language.
The frustration at these two areas of blatant misunderstanding was exascerbated by the fact that pretty much everything else I did in school came naturally to me. In most classes, I could forgo studying and still make an A or a B. In advanced math and foreign language I'd have to try really hard just to make a C, maybe a B if I was lucky.
Speaking of which, I also sucked at learning foreign language.
The frustration at these two areas of blatant misunderstanding was exascerbated by the fact that pretty much everything else I did in school came naturally to me. In most classes, I could forgo studying and still make an A or a B. In advanced math and foreign language I'd have to try really hard just to make a C, maybe a B if I was lucky.
gah English all the way.
I mean with them forcing us to read Shakespeare and any other shit on papper they can find i almost lost my will to read and i was a very dedicated reader back then. an then when they asked us a question i got in trouble for telling them my opinion (basically that the author should shut up and stop winging). oh and then we had language analyses, half a year dedicated to pointing out how the author of a news paper peace was trying to persuade us? i never saw the bloody point of s essay ether
oh and also i recently became increasingly depressed when i say the author of the terrible book had written another laming they where a "best seller" WE HAD TO GET YOUR C*****G BOOK FOR SCHOOL NOT BECOME YOUR ACTUALLY GOOD OR HAVE AN INTERESTING LIFE
I mean with them forcing us to read Shakespeare and any other shit on papper they can find i almost lost my will to read and i was a very dedicated reader back then. an then when they asked us a question i got in trouble for telling them my opinion (basically that the author should shut up and stop winging). oh and then we had language analyses, half a year dedicated to pointing out how the author of a news paper peace was trying to persuade us? i never saw the bloody point of s essay ether
oh and also i recently became increasingly depressed when i say the author of the terrible book had written another laming they where a "best seller" WE HAD TO GET YOUR C*****G BOOK FOR SCHOOL NOT BECOME YOUR ACTUALLY GOOD OR HAVE AN INTERESTING LIFE
Logrithms. Math was really easy for me up until grade 11 and 12...
Good thing I'd already planned on going into music.
Good thing I'd already planned on going into music.
I have no idea what on earth I did in 3 years of music lessons. Not for an instrument you understand, just...I don't know.
On a slightly related note, I am a dunce. Had to do a presentation on a food product we designed for English. Mine was fucking amazing. The rest of the class were reading off sheets, or mumbling a lot, and generally being terrible. So I walked up, delivered an amazing presentation on fucking soup. I called myself a charismatic stallion, likened my soup machine to the internet(but tastier), and still gave all the information I needed to.
Got one of the lowest fucking marks in the class because I forgot the presentation was supposed to be aimed at some fancy supermarket.
On a slightly related note, I am a dunce. Had to do a presentation on a food product we designed for English. Mine was fucking amazing. The rest of the class were reading off sheets, or mumbling a lot, and generally being terrible. So I walked up, delivered an amazing presentation on fucking soup. I called myself a charismatic stallion, likened my soup machine to the internet(but tastier), and still gave all the information I needed to.
Got one of the lowest fucking marks in the class because I forgot the presentation was supposed to be aimed at some fancy supermarket.
Stoichiometry made me cry, but I did figure it out... after the final. Gah.
However, Synthetic Division never made any sense to me, and still doesn't. What a cruel thing to do to grade eleven students.
However, Synthetic Division never made any sense to me, and still doesn't. What a cruel thing to do to grade eleven students.
Algebra is the very basis of all higher mathematics. If you cannot do algebra, you cannot use calculus, for instance, which is used in statistics, computer programming, and engineering. It's also the base of doing any calculations in Physics, which are integral to pretty much any science-oriented job (medical, engineering, research, development, construction, etc).Ix Rebound said:
So basically, Algebra is really important if you're not an arts student or a dropout.
Maths. My god, my right-sided mind can't wrap around its concept.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the subject. I am thankful for those smarter than me that can put it into use for the greater good and made the world essentially what it is today.
I tried really hard to like it. I really did. Some of my friends saw no problem in seeing the beauty in Math; they said each question had a 'pattern' to it; like seeing individual strings on a tapestry. And I can understand how they feel. I just wish I saw what they did.
But as soon as I see a deceptively simple one-lined question and a whole piece of blank A4 just to complete it, something in my brain just shuts off after half-way attempting it and getting stuck in a mathematical dead-end. I end up doodling and getting a well-deserved scolding after.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the subject. I am thankful for those smarter than me that can put it into use for the greater good and made the world essentially what it is today.
I tried really hard to like it. I really did. Some of my friends saw no problem in seeing the beauty in Math; they said each question had a 'pattern' to it; like seeing individual strings on a tapestry. And I can understand how they feel. I just wish I saw what they did.
But as soon as I see a deceptively simple one-lined question and a whole piece of blank A4 just to complete it, something in my brain just shuts off after half-way attempting it and getting stuck in a mathematical dead-end. I end up doodling and getting a well-deserved scolding after.
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Well, I actually was never able to play anything, I don't know why but I always seemed to have forgotten everything for the next day, so basically every class I had to learn how to play the notes again because I didn't remember, it was strange specially considering how much pointless information I've memorized I can't really understand why I can't do music. So I guess I'm simply not a musical person at all, it's kind of annoying that I was never able to play even those really short songs that only had like 6 notes.Zachary Amaranth said:
Eh, I'd say maths, but then I can usually figure out a problem perfectly if I've been taught how to do it ie trigonometry and algebra.
If someone shouts a sum at me though I can't do it. I have some sort of wierd panic attack and even if I got it right I'd have to check it on a calculator. They put me in the highest maths class at school so I don't know, I think it might be anxiety related.
If someone shouts a sum at me though I can't do it. I have some sort of wierd panic attack and even if I got it right I'd have to check it on a calculator. They put me in the highest maths class at school so I don't know, I think it might be anxiety related.
... why the Headmaster was such a dickhead...!
Oh, you mean subject... um... general studies in sixth form... we didn't take any exams for it, we just had lessons for it, but I haven't the faintest idea what the hell went on or why we even did it...
Oh, you mean subject... um... general studies in sixth form... we didn't take any exams for it, we just had lessons for it, but I haven't the faintest idea what the hell went on or why we even did it...
Maths.
That is to say: I understand maths and all, I just don't understand the way it interacts with me.
See, I will sit there in class and understand every word the teacher says, but I'm absolutely horrible at doing homework, so I don't do any exercises and thus the stuff doesn't stick.
I've gotten a 3 (rough equivalent of a D. We use a scale from 1 to 6. A 6 is slightly harder to get than an A.) on practically every maths test in the last three years.
And still, I managed to get a 5+ on the big end of term test.
I don't know how it works.
That is to say: I understand maths and all, I just don't understand the way it interacts with me.
See, I will sit there in class and understand every word the teacher says, but I'm absolutely horrible at doing homework, so I don't do any exercises and thus the stuff doesn't stick.
I've gotten a 3 (rough equivalent of a D. We use a scale from 1 to 6. A 6 is slightly harder to get than an A.) on practically every maths test in the last three years.
And still, I managed to get a 5+ on the big end of term test.
I don't know how it works.
I was ok at maths, hell I even got an A-level in it... But I NEVER got the hang of Differentiation and Intergration! :S
Also, most of the stuff we did in A-level Physics before I gave up, I just couldn't do! It was crazy! I got the space stuff though! And I loved the e=mc^2 stuff! I remember finding out that Mars has a bigger gravitational pull on a baby, than its mother standing a meter away from it! That was a great use of maths and theory!
Also, most of the stuff we did in A-level Physics before I gave up, I just couldn't do! It was crazy! I got the space stuff though! And I loved the e=mc^2 stuff! I remember finding out that Mars has a bigger gravitational pull on a baby, than its mother standing a meter away from it! That was a great use of maths and theory!