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If you find yourself "Catastrophizing" that could be the source of your anxiety over this. I was told in school if I didn't get good grades I would be lost in highschool and then I wouldn't get into a ""good"" college (lie) and then I wouldn't get a job, and then I would be homeless and then I would die. Which is a funny way of telling a kid if you can't figure out 37/6.5 your life is OVER RIGHT NOW!!! You're FUCKED!!! LOL! Anyways if that hits the nail for ya look up anti-catastrophizing strategies. A lot of it has to do with just self talk to reduce your "care" which reduces stress. You should aim to try to be just stressed enough to perform optimally/pushed, but not to the point of being overwhelmed and breaking down. With the exception of getting into a ""good college"" none of the grades matter, but what I found is that pretty much any ABET accredited college is the same. Calculus is still calculus, the equations and material/info is exactly the same, usually the same dang books even unless your professor is making a buck off of you and wrote the book themselves. I knew a girl who got a perfect 4.0 all the way to college, and still couldn't get a job anywhere for many years (including still). So grades don't really matter in real life. Basically no interviewer is ever gonna go. "Oh you got a C in chemistry?" Can't hire you sorry! They are gonna see is this person crazy? Do I LIKE this person? Are they easy to get along with? And are they COMPETENT to do the job? I used to think I sucked at math. I ALMOST failed trig in highschool, I took it again in college, then basically ended up just teaching myself a 3rd time and ACTUALLY understood it after that. Just because you get a bad grade now doesn't mean you didn't improve/learn it later. Anyways, you can fail at what you don't want; so just try to go for what you do want/enjoy that still provides value for others. |
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Man tbh it might be just this. It really is just me catastrophizing things that really aren't that big or at least shouldn't make me not be able to function. I'm still kind of fucked cuz I'm not very good at math and analysis writing and I really want to actually pass my finals and I basically have to revise like 13 years of education to do so but hey It's not going to be the end of the world :p
I should write things down more when I feel like this cuz this really helped me :)
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I'm glad I could help! :)
I thought I was terrible at math too, I basically was 100% winging it through all of highschool. But it's never too late to learn. Often times your teachers just suck but it's hard to know it until you try to teach yourself the material online from different sources as well as just thinking it through on your own time. I use math all the time now, like geometry, trig, and especially algebra in my every day life.
e.g. how tall will this tree grow will this cast a shadow over my solar panels if I put them here when the sun is at its lowest in winter?
e.g. If I wanna make a super nerf gun how much pressure does it need to make the range x feet before hitting the ground?
e.g. How do I make these cuts to make this fireplace mantle fit together nicely?
Math isn't so bad when you aren't just memorizing steps and patterns mindlessless solving for "x" instead of actually doing a useful calculation with it. I think if schools had better math questions that related to ACTUAL real world problems people will encounter people wouldn't think it was pointless. It's just currently taught in a pointless, soul crushing, boring way.
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