I like the independence of being at Columbus State. I like the fact that I have more responsibility on my shoulders, that I am getting through my classes alright, and most of all, that I'm getting a free college education. So far, my classes are going well. I'm just getting an art project done, I'm halfway through writing the first paper in English, and math...well, math is alright.
I feel a little frustrated in math, seeing as half of it is review for me, and the other half is review for everyone but me. It seems that there are certain parts that I never really got down that everybody else learned thoroughly in math 104 or something. I'm a little bit scared to ask too many questions though. I feel like...I don't want to be the one in the class that stalls the lesson to learn something that everyone else knows. Usually, I'll wait a bit and see if I get it as we go along. Then I'll go home and swear up a storm as I try to understand my homework. If I don't understand it by morning, I'll just ask my teacher to do the problems on the board and pay a heck of a lot more attention than normal.
So all that, coupled with the fact that math feels like one of the most useless subjects to learn so thoroughly, makes the class a bit frustrating. In English, we were asked to write a six-word memoir. I wrote "Took math. Learned math. Now what?".
2 comments:
nice memoir :| it was hard at CCAD too last year, it was like...they wouldn't even teach anything. it was like, everyone had been assigned all these things already and were halfway finished and i didn't know what they were or how to do them or anything. i still liked it though.
btw, did you get those runts?
I agree. I don't hate math but I don't see its usefulness in life after schooling past geometry.
When I took French 2 at CSCC I also felt somewhat disadvantaged because almost everyone in my class had already taken French all through high school and although they hadn't mastered the concepts of the course they had a familiarity with them. I always felt really out of place and frustrated because I was expected to understand on my first try what my classmates were understanding on their second try disguised as their first (if that makes any sense).
Remember that you (or CPS) paid to take those classes. You have every right to ask questions whether or not it be a review for your classmates. I mean its not like they're going to hate you for slowing down a section a bit and if they do, who needs them anyway.
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