I am going back to school and it’s already hard…

I can’t get into a credit math class yet because my placement test scores are so low.  In fact, I have to take Mat101 and Mat102 before I can get Mat110 for credit; this would eat up two semesters before I could take a for-credit math class.  I am thinking seriously about taking Peter up on his offer to help me study in order to retake the test and get into a better class.  The issue is that I was never that great in math and I’m afraid that if I don’t truly understand the basic concepts I will fall behind and never catch up.  Then I won’t be able to understand Chemistry and go on to be The Greatest Scientist in the history of the 4.5 billion year old planet!

So I called Dad.  He says that once you “Get IT” it just makes sense.  He was super at math and always excelled at it; I don’t remember ever liking it and quite possibly just gave up on it because I didn’t care.  I wish I’d gotten that math-ability gene from him.  Then again maybe it is inside me, it has simply remained dormant.  Dormant until now!

So he thinks I should go for retesting after packing in some condensed cram sessions with Peter.  After talking to him, I feel better about this, about my dormant math-abilities.  I texted Peter to bring me home some math for slow students workbooks (I know I’m not slow! just dormant) today so I can retest this week after work some night.

On a side note, I feel so excited at just having talked to my advisor, “Thompson”, because he is going to register my english class tonight or tomorrow. YAY!  After discussing with half-asleep Peter the other night, I decided to take both classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights so I will have the other three weeknights to study and study and study, respectively.

I recently started reading The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean.  What a fascinating book!  I am halfway done with it after only two days and I can’t put it down.  I very highly recommend this book!

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