Re: Busy, busy, busy

From	songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups	alt.polyamory
Subject	Re: Busy, busy, busy
Date	2021-11-23 17:50 -0500
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umar wrote:

...teacher and me did not mesh...

> That's more or less what soured me on math. I was something of a whiz at 
> math in high school, and entered college with an AP credit that let me 
> bypass the introduction to calculus course. But the math course I took 
> was taught by someone who couldn't communicate effectively with anyone 
> below Ph.D. level. That's the problem with some of these big-name 
> universities; their reputation is built on research and scholarship, and 
> the quality of teaching is a crap shoot. You might get someone who's a 
> world-class scholar but can't teach worth a damn.
>
> Anyway, I muddled through that math course but never took another one. 

  i was so naive and had such poor study skills when i got to
college, but i also had a major handicap and it was never found
out in time before i wasted a lot of effort and money and poor
performance.

  in high school i never had a pre-calculus course, but i did
so well on the placement test the college gave during orientation
that they put me into the first calculus class.  it was a five
credit class and i was lost so bad i had no idea what was going
on and the instructure for that class was a genius but he couldn't
get past my ignorance.

  i flunked it.  i didn't even know i could drop a class.  i
didn't even know that there was such a class as precalculus, i
stuggled through the first one, failed, repeated it, got a C,
took the next one, struggled through it but at least i did make
it through the class but still didn't know anything about
pre-calculus, etc.  i was failing the third class in the series
when i dropped it and tried again the next quarter.  eventually
made it through and only had Differential Equations to get
through to finally be done with the sequence and i had a great
teacher and was actually getting a B in the class when the
teacher announced that she had only been filling in for the
guy who was supposed to be teaching the class and that he would
be taking over.  i about hit the roof i was so mad.  and the
new teacher was not a very good speaker of English and that 
made it hard to attend lectures, but not only that he got 
angry if you asked him a question.  it was horrible.  i finished
the class with a D.  to say the least all these math classes
with poor grades did screw up my grade point average, but i
wasn't on any kind of scholarship so eventually i got through,
got my degree and that was it.

  somewhere in there i found some friends in the math depart-
ment who were also excellent teachers and i took any of the
classes they taught for fun if i could afford it and had the
time.  so i learned that i could do some kinds of math and do
well and i also learned how important it was for me to be able
to say no and drop a class if the teacher or subject wasn't 
working for me.  it wasn't until my third time through a
computation theory course that i finally started making sense
of it but i still only got a C.  the book and teacher were 
both better and some concepts finally leaked into my brain
somehow.  some topics i just don't learn very easy at all...  :(

  ah, well, good memories now and a lot to learn from and i
did my best after that to put into action what i did learn.  :)

  ok, well, rambly mood i guess, ...  cold outside.  i hope
everyone has a nice TG.  :)

  songbird

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Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-20 16:39 +0000
  Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-21 10:05 -0400
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