This week I struggled a lot. I realized that I have an incredibly hard time doing math without some sort of crutch. Since the beginning of my high school math journey, I have always had access to two things: a calculator and a detailed book of notes. Once I looked at the prerequisite packet I remembered talking about all the topics included, but I did not remember how to do them, like, at all. I could remember what page those topics might have been on in my notebook or in the textbook but I could not even remember how I might start actually solving the problem. This made me realize something about how I've been treating my schooling, I've been memorizing not learning. I don’t want to say that the first week of class made me feel bad about myself, but it was kind of infuriating to start an assignment on subject matter that I spent a whole year prior learning about and find myself hitting a wall every time I try to start a problem. However, through the course of the week I found that my tablemates where going through similar things. Though our collective suffering we managed to talk through our struggles and share old notes and tips from when we were in math class together last year.
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