Never say never. Never.
Some (okay, one) of you may remember me wailing about algebra that "I don't need to know this crap! When am I ever going to need to solve for X?"
WHEN YOU'RE 40, THAT'S WHEN! (And you've decided to start a whole new career that involves pharmaceuticals and various dosages and calculating fluid and nutrient intake and shit like that. THAT'S WHEN!)
It is 1:16 in the morning, and Zach has just gone to bed after a tearful evening of trying to teach the proverbial old dog (that'd be me) new tricks (solving for x.) Now, I'll be honest. I figured that this time around, because I'm actually serious about my education, I'd be more open to algebra and therefore more quickly figure it out.
No. That's not how it works, as it turns out.
I STILL can't wrap my brain around it without significant amounts of pain and angst. There really were actual tears--I wasn't being hyperbolic in that last paragraph there. I cried. EASY solving for x problems are just fine. It's when we're getting into things like six sevenths times 3 over x = 150 over 17. Yeah, it's totally solvable, but the very sight of it turns the parts of my brain dedicated to such ridiculous shit into stone. And really HARD stone, too!
And so I say to you today: 26 years later, I STILL hate algebra. This time, however, I refuse to let it chew me up and spit me out.
Take THAT, math! Hmph!
WHEN YOU'RE 40, THAT'S WHEN! (And you've decided to start a whole new career that involves pharmaceuticals and various dosages and calculating fluid and nutrient intake and shit like that. THAT'S WHEN!)
It is 1:16 in the morning, and Zach has just gone to bed after a tearful evening of trying to teach the proverbial old dog (that'd be me) new tricks (solving for x.) Now, I'll be honest. I figured that this time around, because I'm actually serious about my education, I'd be more open to algebra and therefore more quickly figure it out.
No. That's not how it works, as it turns out.
I STILL can't wrap my brain around it without significant amounts of pain and angst. There really were actual tears--I wasn't being hyperbolic in that last paragraph there. I cried. EASY solving for x problems are just fine. It's when we're getting into things like six sevenths times 3 over x = 150 over 17. Yeah, it's totally solvable, but the very sight of it turns the parts of my brain dedicated to such ridiculous shit into stone. And really HARD stone, too!
And so I say to you today: 26 years later, I STILL hate algebra. This time, however, I refuse to let it chew me up and spit me out.
Take THAT, math! Hmph!
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