<p>I feel like I'm the only person in this situation; I am a natural-born writer, and I ace my English classes with ease, but I fell in love with the sciences and want to major in physics when I go to college. Biology was easy for me and chemistry and physics are manageable, but math has always been my weakest subject. I actually got a B in precalculus last year, so more for my own self improvement than anything else, I took Calculus AB over the summer to prepare me for Calculus BC - I didn't trust myself. I think math is useful and quite elegant, but I get so frustrated when everyone else around me seems to have an easier time grasping the concepts. I've talked to other science nerds and all of them seem to be math whizzes, but have a comparatively hard time with English which is when they turn to me for advice. My identical twin wants nothing to do with math and science and wants to pursue a career with her writing. Sometimes I feel like I should just give up and "do what I was meant to do", but I feel physics to be my calling more than anything else. It's ridiculously frustrating.</p>
<p>I’m so bad at english, not literally bad (I get As) but in order to conquer a difficult story or see the story through the writers eyes it takes me a while. Because i’m a science guy and i see things as facts not subjective author opinions</p>
<p>I’m pretty good in all core subjects, (Math, Science, English, and History), but in foreign languages I struggle in them. I can write and read pretty well, but forming and saying the words in the language is hard for me.</p>
<p>Same with me! I’ve always excelled in my English classes… I’m not very good with math, but I plan on being a Biology major, so I’m going to have to take a lot of Chem and Physics classes as well. I’m taking Physics right now and it seems interesting, and I took Chem last year and really liked it, even though I had to go in for extra help 3-4 times a month. Although I am a “natural” with English, I feel like science holds so much more information and is much more interesting.</p>
<p>I’m the opposite. I am really good at math even though I don’t care for it, yet I love writing even though I can’t write for my life. Want to trade? =p</p>
<p>Math has been pretty easy for me, English was a struggle (though I’m a really good fiction writer) , and memorizing stuff (social studies a lot of the time) is kind of hard for me. :(</p>
<p>Same for me. I feel like in Geometry, I have to work a lot harder than everyone else to understand the concepts and the trickier angle measure questions. English and grammar properties have always been easy for me, though.</p>
<p>I feel the same way, I really like Chemistry but I suck at it, I always do something wrong, and get a lot things mixed up. I’m hanging on to a 80% now in AP Chemistry, and staying strong in AP Biology with a 94%. I’m like this with math too, I enjoy math, but I always fail the tests, especially in Algebra II last year. The best grade I got on a test in that class was a 82 and the rest C’s and below lol.</p>
<p>I love English and history (great at English, good at history), and I find the sciences really interesting, but math is not my thing. I guess a B average in math classes isn’t that bad, but on CC it sure seems that way Science has been a mix for me–chemistry was easy (although it was an academic class, so…) and biology was harder (although I’ve retained an awful lot of what i studied, so that paid off). I don’t know–math could be a teacher thing, I generally do well in math when I’m on my own (B average precalculus, but 790 SAT II M2) and I’ve rarely had a good math teacher.</p>
<p>I am great at English, but I sort of hate the subject. I love reading and writing for fun, but resent it when I am forced to read a specific book at a specific pace or write a paper on a topic with a very specific prompt. That being said I love science/plan to major in biology in college/plan to go to medical school. It is not my best subject in any way, but I find it so interesting that I love it…</p>
<p>A question for those of you posting classes that you are weak in and dont enjoy: did you read the thread title? My weakest class that I am passionate about is definitely chemistry. I have always loved it but I do worse in that class than any of my others.</p>
<p>Here’s an example for you - I was a civil engineering major in college. I wanted to learn how to design buildings. I enjoyed it, especially the math part. BUT it turns out you really need to be able to visualize stuff in three dimensions easily, and I don’t. My mind is very two-dimensional. I’ve managed to train myself somewhat to “connect the dots,” so to speak, but it’s still hard. I’m not sure if I would have gone into the field if I’d realized this in high school!</p>
<p>The careers I’m considering all involve either psychology, which I haven’t yet taken as a class, or science. One of my plans is possibly medicine of some sort, but while I was fine in freshie bio (and I’ll see tomorrow when I start AP Bio how I’ll do) I wasn’t very good at chemistry. My highest grade was a 93 and my lowest was so low that I’d get kicked off this overachieversville in disgust :). My end-of-year average was, I believe, an 88 because I did a LOT of extra-credit work. The issue is that like the OP, I find science fascinating, and therefore I’d love to go into it as a career. But I’m not having overwhelming success in it, to say the least.
And don’t get me started on physics. UGH.</p>
<p>I guess the only class I can think of for this is/was English. I always hated the class from 6th grade up to last year. I got straight C-'s and had teachers telling me I wasn’t a great writer. And I haven’t even told you any of the stories about my awful writer’s block that I still get today…that combined with everyone’s lack of confidence in me, made me procrastinate/not do writing assignments. I took an F in my last quarter of English my sophomore year because my teacher was joking about “how easy” it was to write the final paper when I told him I needed help, so I just didn’t do it.
I used to never read the books either. I just didn’t care.</p>
<p>But last year, I had an awesome English teacher, and apparently he thought I was an amazing writer, and since everyone trusts him to proofread their college essays, I took his words and advice to heart and now I love English. I read the books multiple times and try to participate in discussions. I’m like a B student in English but it’s a lot better than C-.</p>
<p>Otherwise my main passions would be history and foreign language, with the former I was too lazy to do my homework but realized I had a knack of remembering obscure facts, and with the latter I was always awful at it but I had a wonderful teacher my sophomore year who was encouraging and worked with me even though I got a C+ for the year. Spanish is awesome now, though.</p>
Although I am a “natural” with English, I feel like science holds so much more information and is much more interesting.</p>
Science has been a mix for me–chemistry was easy (although it was an academic class, so…) and biology was harder (although I’ve retained an awful lot of what i studied, so that paid off). I don’t know–math could be a teacher thing, I generally do well in math when I’m on my own (B average precalculus, but 790 SAT II M2) and I’ve rarely had a good math teacher.</p>