Community Chat

[J Town Girl]

What was your most difficult subject to master when you were in school?    For me, it was math.   I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my dad when I was in grade school and while he tried to help me, I was crying because I just couldn't get the grasp of math. Spelling, history, geography, they all came so much easier for me.

I always received a passing grade and even when I went into high school and had to deal with algebra, geometry and calculus  I somehow managed to keep my head above water but I never mastered those subjects.  

To this day, I still have difficulty with math.  Some people can easily work with numbers in their heads but I still need a calculator to do more than the simplest of mathematical tasks.  

I always felt so inferior that I had such trouble when for others it came so easily.   

One of my favorite subjects in HS was biology.  I actually did very well with it.   But I knew with my limited abilities in math I wasn't destined to any career in the health sciences.   There was a time that I thought about a career as a radiological technician but the minute I found out about all of the math involved I knew that career was never going to happen.  

Where there any careers that you had to rule out because they required a skill that you just never mastered?

[roeroe1005]

Oh my gosh, MATH!  I can pretty much add in my head, but anything else, my eyes just glaze over.

I went to a Catholic high school a long, long time ago.  English, zipped by.  French, easy.  Geometry - got a 4 on the Regents.  Four.

When I was the secretary to the Principal in a local high school, everyday I would eat lunch in the math department chair's classroom.  The class would usually be AP calc.  After 12 years of listening, you would think I would be an Einstein.  Put an (x) and (y) among numbers - I'm asleep.

I'm very jealous of anyone who is a math wiz!

[this is my nic]

Math was my most difficult subject!  I never understood it.  I was taken out of kindergarten after about 2 weeks and put into first grade.  Big mistake!  Even though I was tested and passed the test so I could skip kindergarten, I believe that I missed the rudimentary math concepts taught in kindergarten.  I remember sitting at my desk in first grade looking at problems such as 4 + 3 and thinking of what word the answer should be.  Those numbers were just words to me.  It was an uphill struggle through each grade.  I never failed, but it was so very difficult.  

[Tinkrbl44]

 Latin ....  I have no idea what ever possessed me to take it, but it was an incredible challenge.

In spite of that, I still remember a saying:   

"Verbum Sat Sapienti"     (A word to the wise is sufficient.)

[this is my nic]

I had one year of Latin, then switched to French for 2 years to cover the 2 years of a foreign language requirement. 

So for those of us here:

Caveat emptor! 

(I think that's right!)

[Kachina624]

If it weren't for my dear mother, I'd still be sitting in that 9th grade algebra classroom trying to figure out what it was all about.  She made such a pest of herself going to see the teacher, he passed me just to get rid of her.  In all fairness he was a terrible teacher,  one of those coach/teachers who was only interested in talking about football.

[software]

Trig

I never understood it & never saw the value in it

[ALRATIBA]

I agree with @Tinkrbl44. .... Latin (in college). More study time than any other class. Loved it, still studying.

I could have taken any language to complete requirement but I wanted the Latin. A school friend took Greek. We both had Classical Studies minors,

[handygal2]

Physics and calculus.

[bikerbabe]

I actually always did well in school and had all A’s. I guess math was my best subject. Also chemistry. I majored in chem in college and took a couple years of calculus.

Worst subject? I’m not athletic except I’m strong, so PE.