<p>I completely agree with Quark. That was a very nice post. XD</p>
<p>People seem to dislike English the most at all the schools I've went to. They just don't like essays, analyzing literature and all. For myself, I like everything pretty much, I used to hate history, but at my new school we've been going the original writing/ discussion approach, which is very nice. I like math because I like problem solving, coming up with different ways to answer a problem. Perhaps there's only one correct answer, but sometimes so many ways to get it! With literature, I love analyzing literature, seeing how writers connect thoughts, and I like constructing essays. </p>
<p>I'm not the best at math, but i think the problem is highschool math classes. So many teachers don't really test you on the basics, and you end up in harder course and you're like "ah!"
This year I had a WONDERFUL teacher. Though I still struggle alot with my lack of ... well ..concrete math skills (b/c I've had pretty bad teachers in the past). But... amazingly... I ended up actually liking math, and really wanting to do more in college. Unfortunately....one of the teachers I don't like (my alg. 2 teacher) is teaching calc so I'm taking ap stat this year, and I'll take calc later on in life.</p>
<p>Wow kimbojion, we are exactly the same!
I love math and english, but I hate science. I think that both math and english are just so much more creative. You can spend hours analyzing a problem or a reading passage, and you can reach amazing answers/conclusions. It's so fascinating to find a new meaning under a passage or to discover a new method of solving a problem. My issue with science is that, in my experience, it's just so flat...you do the lab, write down your results, draw some conclusions...and that's it. Some ppl have mentioned how you can bulls--- your way in english class;. Athough that may be true in class discussion, at my school loads of kids fail the essays because the teacher just doesn't accept their flat, "bull----" ideas, and realizes that they haven't gotten into the inner "stuff" of the passage. English may not help us advance "technologically", as science certainly does, but I think it's important to preserve the unique culture and literature that each country has. Plus, books teach us lessons that technology never can.</p>
<p>I love math. I'm a good student at it, but it takes me a little while to figure out answers to the hard questions...I'm not very "quick" at it. I like history the most, and I like English because I can analyze it, etc. But math...it's fun for me. Lol, especially algebra. I know, that's a little weird.
But to quote Mean Girls, "math is the same in every language." And i love that about it.</p>
<p>Math is ok. I love it when I'm good at it and despise it when I suck at it. So yea...I hate to admit it but you're good at math, you'll love it. (ok...lots of its.)</p>
<p>I'm reading a lot of posts that deride English as a class where you can bs all you want and get by with an A.<br>
And truth be told, that is true.
Although I am a prospective English literature major, I believe that the openness of humanity classes offer many chances for many stupid ideas to surface as great epiphanies (e.g. sophistry).
But then again, life isn't as simple as 2+2. Life is a lot like English class, where you have a myriad of people preaching bs. But it is intrinsic to success for one to learn to deal with such things and present more reasonable arguments.</p>
<p>BTW, most people that I've spoken to on the topic of "Worst Highschool Subject" have told me that Chemistry was their worst.
I guess its the leap from solving math problems to abstract problems. I don't know.</p>
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<p>I'm an AIME qualifier and can do a few AIME problems and yet I got pretty discouraged in math as I am clearly much weaker than a lot of other people at a summer math program I went to. Now I'm having yet another identity crisis. I definitely can't do into the Humanities because I have no interest and I feel that I am not intelligent enough for the sciences even though I'm most interested in them. What has happened is that I've changed my life goals from becoming a scientist to simply having loving relationships with parrots and ducks.</p>
<p>If you're an AIME qualifier, you're obviously really intelligent. So don't be discouraged from studying science. Just take what interests you. And try to keep your head up... a huge factor in success with the sciences is confidence. You need to think you CAN do it, and not approach your problem sets thinking "I can't do this...".</p>