As an engineer or even a scientist, math is expected to be an accomplice, a best friend, or a respected side-kick. However, me and math have not been that good of friends.
In middle school, I was limited to pre-algebra which has affected my math background all-the-way until now in college. As an engineer, I take more calculus and physics courses than a math major and am expected to maintain a 3.0 in those core courses. For this reason, mathematics and it's ranging friends and studies and I have never really hit it off. Geometry, specifically, is my arch-nemesis. It deceives me into thinking I understand but when it comes to the moment to display knowledge not just copy-paste what the teacher did on the board.....I stare at the paper, eternally.
This difficulty I have with spatial geometry has led me to understand that I am an extremely kinesthetic learner. In other words, if a teacher tells me to prove that a square is not a rectangle by manipulating variables instead of showing with a model; I give up. This is not something I ever do. However, me and math aren't ever-lasting friends. I hope one day I can find a subject in mathematics that I can understand and grow fond off, but until then math and I are like two ex-best friends at a party: avoiding each other unless it is absolutely necessary to acknowledge each other.
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