Tuesday, February 7, 2012

This is Why I DESPISE Math.

I have never liked math. The only 2 years I even tolerated it was 7th and 10th grade when I had 2 of my all time favorite teachers. But other than that... NOPE!!

After today I am pretty sure I can add plenty more reasons to why I hate math!

While in class, the prof spent the first 20 minutes attempting to explain how to do this one type of problem, and ended up saying "why don't y'all just google it, because I don't know how to explain it". Then, I ask her where she got her numbers that she was using (because they were NO where to be found in the problem. And nobody else knew what was going on either, they just wouldn't confront her about it!) and this was her answer *with AS much sass as humanely possible* "I used the calculator". Umm.. EXCUSE ME? No duh you used a calculator. Very politely I rephrased "How did you get those answers?", only to get the reply "Well. First I turned the calculator on..." I was ENRAGED. I don't think I even heard the rest of her response I was so enraged. The rest of math went downhill from there.

So today I'm working on online math homework. First of all, that is the worst because you can't write on it and it takes so much longer to copy it down and plug in answers etc. Plus even though 1%, .01, 1/100, are all the same answers, it will only take 1 of those as correct. So frustrating. ANYWAYS, I can't figure this stuff out. Finally I ask one of my friends who is a math major who also tutors for the university to help me, and she can't figure it out. She doesn't even think there is an answer...

PERFECT. How the heck am I supposed to do this then? So I go to this thing called "Week in Review" where another professor reteaches what we learned this week.. Oh, hey, guess what, there were FORMULAS to solve these problems that my prof just never happened to mention? Nowhere in my notes, nowhere in online lectures, nowhere in her sample problems... Seriously? GRR!

Back to the library for another hour and I was able to work through almost all of the rest of my hw problems. There is one I can't get, but I wasn't going to stress myself anymore about that one. I'll work on it tomorow hopefully!

I left my room at 7 this morning, and didn't get back until 11 tonight. I spent over 8 HOURS working on math. Not exactly my idea of a fun day, but I think I get the math concepts for the most part! Now time for BED!

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