Some Things Never Change

Algebra (an instrument of Satan, I'm convinced) was the bane of my existence in high school. Especially the word problems -- you remember -- one train leaves St. Louis going west at 60 mph and another leaves San Francisco heading east doing 50. How old are the conductors' grandmothers?

My dad was an engineer and could not for the life of him figure out how a daughter of his could be SO dense in math.
 

I would have done well in Math if it wasn't for the football player hunk sitting next to me in class, distracting me to distraction from my lessons. :rolleyes:
 
Cookie, with the exception of geometry, math was not an issue for me. I just found it endlessly boring. I mean:Dear algebra, please stop asking us to find your x. She's never coming back, and don't ask y. That's my kinda math. Lol.
 
:rofl1: gibbled! ha ha ha -- that must be a BC expression, we said that when I was in school in Van. haven't heard it ever since.
 
I loved algebra but hated geometry too. In high school, I was a party type girl who didn't take life seriously enough. That all came to and end after high school. But I'm still artistic, original and whimsical.
 
Why did so many hate Geometry? I thought it the most useful of all the math disciplines.. Learning about shapes and using formulas to prove hypothesis.. great fun.. But seriously.. it felt like a big accomplishment to actually find the proof.
 
Hello all. I'm brand new here and did the intro thing, then this nice thread caught my eye. Wonderful thoughts and memories being
brought out.

Hats off to all who did graduate from high school. My experience was different and I left in 10th grade. Later got the h.s.
"GED" right after the military. That was 1970. I should have graduated in the class of '64.

Things turned out fine, over time. What did not change since those days could be quite a long list, but the first thing that
came to mind when I saw the thread title was my fascination and preoccupation with space travel and astronomy. That has
stuck with me from the time I was 7 years old.
 
Things still the same......... Still have nice hair, still read loads of books,still love flowers and all things gardening, still read poetry, still interested in the world. lots of other changes though as you would naturally expect, it's a lot of years ago.
 
I found math boring beyond belief. I was a humanities major, and loved literature and languages, still do, love to read poetry.i am able to recite some passages from favourite authors, ie Emily Dickenson.
 
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