• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s great when a professor can be inspirational

    I had to learn math out of desperation. Unbeknownst to me because I had terrible math teachers, I had a natural talent for math.

    It wasn’t until I joined the military after high school that the military discovered my math abilities on the ASVAB and put me in a job that required a lot of math.

    Every class for my job had an intense amount of math that gained significant difficulty with each passing grade. It was either pass the class or get reclassed to a guaranteed terrible job not of your choosing.

    Grinding out math became my only focus for 10-12 hours a day out of fear of severe penalty

    Made me wish I had decent math teachers back in school, I felt like I was operating with a handicap