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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
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.
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Originally Posted by flatbutt
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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Glad I'm not alone. Physical Chemistry was very difficult for me in college and then took a Structural Molecular Biochemistry class and it was as if cosmic tumblers aligned and studying x-ray crystallography and the Fourier Transform, it became natural and fun. Loved that class, sometimes wish I had gone into research but don't have the patience for it.