Not a science/math whiz?

[southernlady]

The quote below started here http://bariatricfacts.org/threads/2-1-2-years-out-gassy-bloated-all-the-time.6082/
But was taking a complete left turn from the original post.

Maybe those girls who LIKED science class DianaCox Larra kirmy southernlady can explain the problem with "the Flagyl solution" better. And full dislosure, I'm on it right now, with medical supervision.

I only learn enough science to be able to know what my body was doing as a diabetic and now living with the DS since 1997 and 2011. I only passed biology in college cause I swore to the professor that I would never, EVER take a science class again.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I only learn enough science to be able to know what my body was doing as a diabetic and now living with the DS since 1997 and 2011. I only passed biology in college cause I swore to the professor that I would never, EVER take a science class again.

LOL...MiniSue's HS AP Chem teacher gave her a grade that wouldn't destroy her GPA, in exchange for the same promise.

 

[DianaCox]

Similar, but different stories:

I had the same teacher in HS as a freshman for biology (in which I did very well) and as a junior for chemistry. My junior year was tumultuous and I refused to keep my lab notebook although I did the work. I somehow got a C in the class anyway. Several years later, while majoring in biology, I went back to the school and asked him whether I even deserved a C and he just smiled. Habing judged that I had some promise, he didn’t want to ruin my chances for college due to my personal problems.

My first year at Yale, I had to take calculus as a biology major. I had hit my math wall a couple of years earlier with math analysis, and the competition (and grading curve) was fierce. I was really struggling by the time I got to the finals for the second semester. It didn’t help that the lower level math classes were taught by graduate students who were mostly from other countries, with marginal English skills. There were many different sections, as of course all the non-math major science and pre-med students had to take it.

I was sitting at lunch trying to cram at the last minute and freaking out before my afternoon calculus final, when a friend came in and said he had just taken his exam. He walked me through a few questions that had been on his exam, which I could understand as he explained it, but I didn’t think I would be able to recreate with different facts and numbers.

Imagine my surprise and astonishment when my final had THE SAME QUESTIONS that my friend had walked me through! I tried to reproduce what my friend had explained to me an hour previously, with some success. We later realized that we had the same grad student as a teacher, but in different sections (there were so many sections and so many grad students, it never occurred to us we might be in different sections taught by the same guy). Our “cheating” was utterly unintentional, but since it was my last math class ever, I decided I could live with myself and with my passing grade.

 

[southernlady]

Math in high school was a completely different story. Okay, was in a small school that had boarding students. The math teacher taught all math classes regardless of level. I had her for two years (my two required math classes).

Freshman year was algebra 1. After the first month, she split the class into three groups. I was in the “need all the help you can get” section. The upper section helped the middle. Barely squeaked by but I did.

Sophomore year, it was geometry. Surprisingly I ended up in the upper group. Apparently I can SEE geometric math better. We were solving problems that first month and had to list the steps. So, she had the previous years upper group go first listing the steps to the solution on the board. All of them had 20 plus steps. In fact, our teacher also had the same 20 plus steps. So she asked if anyone had something different. I raised my hand. Went to the board and solved it in 5 steps to her astonishment. She looked at me and said, I never saw that solution! My grade that year wasn’t a solid A but it was an A-

To this day, I see geometric better than linear. Dh though, is the linear.

Math and science were torture classes for me. Then again, so was Latin and I had to have two years of it. My classes were English and history, esp history.

 

[DianaCox]

If solving geometry proofs was something you could do for a living, I would at least have done it as a side job. Those were fun! But when the math got more abstract, my brain gave up.

Of course I loved biology and chemistry. Physics notsomuch.

 

[JackieOnLine]

Apparently I can SEE geometric math better.

isn't that interesting? Geometry was something I didn't understand at all. and yet I know I passed the class. but it was sure different than all the other math!

 

[Munchkin]

Math for the sake of math almost killed me. It made no sense. Luckily APPLIED math was easy and logical to me. And it was a challenge.

Still remember the gist of my physics final. One question winner take all. A 2 ton elephant is standing on the equator on a N/S axis. It is 85 degrees and a 10 mph wind is coming from the S. A tsetse fly weighing 10mg is flying on an E/W axis at 2 mph and it lands on the elephant. How much does the elephant move?

And dammit, no matter what 'they' say, you can trisect an angle!

But I still liked non-math science better. Qualitative analysis was just fun. Quantitative was work. Loved doing stuff like making esters in the lab. Hated it when the experiment was 5 minutes long and then you had 3 hrs of equations to do to find the answer!

 

[southernlady]

Luckily APPLIED math was easy and logical to me.

The ONLY math I am good at now is what I refer to as Kitchen Math.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Where on the elephant does it land? Wouldn't we need to know that?

 

[Larra]

Good point! What if it lands on a tusk, or a toenail?

 

[DianaCox]

"And dammit, no matter what 'they' say, you can trisect an angle!"

Wait what? I got obsessed with trying to solve that problem for a while - did you figure it out??

 

[galaxygrrl]

I would have written, just need to get out of the way of the elephant. I thought the best I dunno the answer answer to a quesition was what is a Dauphin. My friend wrote a football team in Miami even though a Dauphin is the crowned prince in France.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Once, there was this "almost chain" of restaurants, owned by eleven brothers. Each owned his own restaurant, but they ordered everything like a bulk order to save money. Even printed napkins and placemats. Well TEN of 'em ordered placemats together, because the restaurants were all named "El Pescador" (the fisherman), except one.

That one was El Daufin ...or maybe El Dauphin...I don't remember.

So I was gonna say Dauphin was "odd man out."


Here's the website if one of http://www.elpescadorwestcovina.com/about_us the remaining restaurants:

 

[Munchkin]

Doesn't matter where it lands. Newton's 3rd law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

"And dammit, no matter what 'they' say, you can trisect an angle!"

Wait what? I got obsessed with trying to solve that problem for a while - did you figure it out??

THEY say no but I say yes. We are weird. I work on this too.

 

[DianaCox]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_trisection#Proof_of_impossibility

I finally stopped. But I went through a phase, when I didn’t know about the proof ...