doki_doki's Journal: AP Calculus

As I stated in my profile, I wish to go into a career involving computer science. The only problem is that I hate math. If I hadn't made my career plans known to my guidence councelor, I could have dropped AP Calculus. However, now I am stuck in the class....and I had to drop AP Bio, which was my favorite class. *sigh*

But at least I have a few things to look forward to this upcoming week....

- Watching Escaflowne with friends

- On Tuesday I am staying home from school. My twin sister will be calling in sick to her high school and then going to mine, pretending to be me. I'm pretty excited....hopefully it will work out well.

- I am going to have a decent amount of free time with which I will be able to play DDR, finish reading The Bell Jar, and download more electronica, which I have been growing increasingly interested in lately.

Take heart

[DisownedSky]

You probably don't hate math so much as the way it's taught. The quality of math teaching in college is generally better, and you might even enjoy it. Even if not (and I didn't always enjoy it myself), a confident attitude will make it easier to bear. Math is just rigorous reasoning applied to abstract quantities. If you can't engage in precision reasoning whatever the subject matter, then computer science is not for you.

Re:Take heart

[doki_doki]

There actually was a time when I loved math. Now, however, I feel frustrated and discouraged when I don't understand it...but like you said, perhaps college will be different.