<p>does anyone ever get this feeling? for instance, im top student in my ap history class. however, i struggle terribly with math. i cant help but sometimes get frustrated like "where is being good in history gonna get me??" anyone feel the same?</p>
<p>"What am I gonna do with derivatives? I'm gonna be cutting into people when a grow up!!" That's what I tell myself every time I sit in a math class. </p>
<p>It's all good, gotta do what you can to graduate and get into a good college.</p>
<p>Lol, I'm good at the humanities but in some ways more interested in the sciences. It's kind of frustrating.</p>
<p>I feel like humanities classes and social studies is more of remembering things rather than being smart. Idk, thats just my opinion.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, I think I'd agree. Except English, which at my school seems to be about bs-ing and stringing together pretty words.</p>
<p>LOL </p>
<p>Me:
Love math and science 95-97 in those classes
Don't really like humanities: 96-100 in those classes...</p>
<p>Oddly enough, I both excel in and love history, but it's my worst class because I don't try. </p>
<p>I'm okay at sciences, math, and foreign language (though I hate French now), but English has always bored me. Literary analysis is so bland. If I'm going to analyze anything, it's going to be history, because at least that actually happened.</p>
<p>In high school the humanities involve memorization; in college they involve a LOT of writing, including original research. Plus 1000+ pages of reading a week, lol. The humanities are extremely useful, for college admissions and for majors in college. They're great majors for law school, business school, or grad school, and I even know one person who's a philosophy major and got a great job on Wall Street for next year...so yeah!</p>
<p>Just enjoy the stuff - don't think of it like "omg college this will ruin me" but think of it "time to entertain myself with these curious musings of some crazy nutbags!!" and just...enjoy it. Everything in life should be enjoyed, since worrying is literally wasting your life in the max. possible way. </p>
<p>That's how I do it personally - if I do bad in something, I just take it as another experience as well.</p>
<p>It's so frustrating to be better at the subjects that you're less interested in.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, you can easily go through that work and have more time for the subjects you enjoy.</p>
<p>I'm brilliant at English (it is actually a lot of writing in-depth analysis etc. at my school. We stopped getting away with the flowery bs sophomore year) - but what am I going to DO with that? Be a professor? I LOVE pysics and get A's in my Physics 2 AP/IB class, but I don't feel like I have that intense an understanding. If I were truly a science person, I could be a bio-medical engineer, but I don't know if I have the chops. Basically, I'm just good at school.</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel the same way, galestorm, except I don't think I'm actually good at rigorous analysis in English. I'm just good at making up plausible-sounding fluff arguments. So basically I'm a loser. :P But exactly the kind of loser our wonderful school system rewards with good grades.</p>
<p>Gotta love the school system. Success is like 10% legit intelligence, about 40% bs and about 50% ambition. Haha...I just whipped out the graphing calculator to check to make sure that added to 100%. Kidding, but I can see myself doing that.</p>
<p>Lol, I did badly on a math test once because I said 25-19=9. The sad thing is, I totally used a calculator for that portion. o.0</p>
<p>Haha, I frequently do 2*3 = 5. What's especially sad is that I do all the hard stuff right.</p>
<p>I love it when I set up the integral correctly and then get the wrong definite integral. And I found that wrong integral using my graphing calculator.</p>
<p>Honestly, I love my graphing calculator, but sometimes I suspect I'd be much better off if I chucked it and learned to do basic arithmetic again.</p>
<p>I am a self professed calculator junkie, but it seems like everyone in higher level math is.</p>
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<p>I suppose, but then you're always like, I REALLY REALLY want to be good at this, why can't I be good at this rather than at [randomsubjectIdon'tevenlike]...</p>
<p>this will most likely make me sound dumb, but how do you put something in the quote box?</p>