It’s awesome awesome awesome!!! Okay, that’s a little over the top. But after high school, I was so done with math. I was pretty convinced I was bad at it, especially since so many of the boys were - in my mind, and in some of theirs too - “smarter” than me (found out later I was actually getting better grades than some of them. Whoops;) ).
But I took a chance since I knew having math on a college transcript could make a whole lot of difference to employers. With the smaller class ratio, the professors took notice and were able to help. In particular, going to a women’s college, the humanities courses that talked about sexism in math, helped me diagnose how I had absorbed sexism in math and was denying that I’m actually pretty good at math. The professors were great at encouraging me to pursue what I realized I was actually very, very into.
Now I tutor math courses, including the two I had thought I had struggled and was bad in during high school and am majoring in a very mathematically based field. Finished through diff eq, but probably going to take more just for fun. So, awesome!! And I really doubt I would have even bothered taking math if I hadn’t gone to a liberal arts college.