October 12, 2005
So Much Hate
I write this post from my Math 113 lecture. I brought my laptop today; I don't think I could stand another straight lecture without snapping. I hate this class, I hate this professor, I hate this homework, I hate these exams.
The odd thing is that I love math, and Calculus, and have even considered getting a minor in Math.
I don't know what it is about this class that enrages me so much. Well, maybe I do. I hate being forced to cover ground that I had already mastered in High School. I took AP Calculus, and scored a 5 on the AP exam. I did get credit for Math 112 - Calc. I, but 113 I still have to take.
I think that this is the most extraordinarily demotivated I have ever been. I pray that I can somehow pass this class, and never speak of it again. I would have taken it via Independent Study, but only 112 is offered by that method.
If I can survive this semester with a reasonable grade, I will be sitting pretty academically. Maybe I will finally be able to let go of my hate.
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It was the AB exam rather than the BC. Hence only getting credit for 113.
must... resist... killing.. urge...
Visualize yourself in a serene place, where the old men drink tea with the percentages and fifty-twos, and little girls play hopscotch with the decimal.
Then picture yourself plunging into a cool sea of mathematics, but instead of drowning, you breathe them in and they, in turn, become a fluid part of who you are.
Be at peace with yourself. [/mantra]
Well, it's not that I think he's a bad person. I just think he's a horrible professor with a horrendous pedagogical style.
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