re: #163 🌹UOJB!

I wasn’t so lucky. I had the Algebra Teacher From Beyond Hell in 8th grade who loved to scream and yell at me right from the start. Left me with math anxiety that still requires me to use a calculator whenever numbers are involved.

i took calculus my first semester at college
wasn’t sure i needed it but ‘everybody took it’ was the advice i got
i was totally lost at sea the entire time. clueless through lectures, labs, exams.
(i was honors math in high school so it was a bit of a blow first semester and all)
not sure if i passed. probably not.

year and a half later transferred to another school
now i needed calc for my major so I tried it again

very early on, one day it clicked.
like a light switch. i still remember it. a true aha moment.

i had it.
and i knew it.

different teacher
different book
different approach
maybe the different surroundings helped too