College Mathematics

My college mathematics class was my first time actually understanding algebra. I am also fascinated by the way that business situations can be represented as lines on a graph, even though I don’t understand graphing very well. Although this has been my hardest course and the lowest grade of any course in Full Sail, I am glad I am finally overcoming my greatest academic weakness. On arithmetic, I am solid, but all of the other subjects are quite new to me.

I will also have the PDF textbook to review even when the class ends so I can have a better idea about these subjects. I simply haven’t had time to look at it because I am gone 11 to 12 hours out of the day, trying to get some sleep and then working on school. It’s a miracle I can get anything done with my insane life!

But I also know that as long as I work a full-time job, I will not have the time to learn as well as I could have if school was the only thing going on. I try to cram and do everything on Thursday and Saturday, which are my nights off.

In any case, I am proud of myself for trying to continue my education even though I didn’t start college until one month before my 36th birthday. Yeah, I’ll be in debt trying to pay off my student loans for the rest of my life, but at least this was a decision I made.

Some much younger people go to college when they are 18 or in their early 20s because they are told they have to. I don’t think that someone should automatically pursue higher education unless they have a good reason for it and goals they think it will help with.

But the math class, which is only one class of many, is actually my favorite because I know that with math, there is a right answer even if I can’t find it. It lacks the subjective, opinionated nature of all the other subjects.

In fact, math class is like playing chess. I may have lost the game, but I enjoyed the process of trying to find the right moves. At least I know the rules and can identify what went wrong, even if it is after the fact.