<p>My S went two years ago and it rocked his world. It convinced him that his life's work is to teach math. It also made him very social and outgoing -- not what one would expect from a math camp, but it was that cool.</p>
<p>I like math, and it's one of my favorite subjects, but I'm just not that good at it. But argh, the feeling you get when you finally figure out a difficult problem is just great.</p>
<p>Science (especially chemistry) is my one true love, but I do like math a whole lot. I like logic and puzzles, and solving math problems always feels like that to me.</p>
<p>I love math. Since I'm majoring in engineering, I try to explain everything to everyone with math. That's what we all do. And if the other dude doesn't understand me and I don't understand myself, then I just make it up.</p>
<p>well, I use to absolutely hate math. Until sophomore year, I realize there was no reason for me to hate it. I mean I had a good grade in it, even when I didn't try, and it's not like I don't understand it. I want to be a scientist, so math has to be one of my strong points. So this year, I finally began to be interested in it & my grades soared even higher. I was then finding getting the highest grade in my math classes were fun, and I became amusingly competitve in it. So yes, now I like math because I finally realized how it relates to science and IT IS the universal language. So we ALL must try to understand it.</p>
<p>When we were learning conic sections, I refused to memorize the formulas for the test, telling myself that I'd just draw pictures and use the actual concepts behind the numbers to figure out the answers... instead of looking at the equation to find the directrix of a parabola, for example. I objected to my teacher's method of teaching us straight memorization without an explanation of what, say, "eccentricity" even meant. </p>
<p>I tried and got, like, a 60% on the test. It would have been a great statement had I not failed.</p>