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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
I wasn't good at math. Algebra and trigonometry came hard for me. I never felt like I knew what I was doing. The first year of calculus in college I had to memorize every concept just to get through. I passed the course without any real understanding.
Then I took my first physics class and everything fell into place. Suddenly it all made sense. It was like playing a film of a building demolition double time and in reverse. In senior year I was a Calculus 1 tutor for some kids.
The U policy was that you had to take Calculus before you would understand physics, but it was the opposite for me. Intelligence isn't the same for everyone.
Wow, it was the same for me. I got a low score on the math SAT but nearly aced the physics ACT. Numbers puzzled me for a long time but when it came to applying them it was ezpz. I was always better with hands on.
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