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Originally Posted by Slavakion
Me, too. I started reading at an early age, so spelling and grammar came naturally to me. I always have to stop myself from correcting other people.
Interpretation is my problem. I never got poetry or literary symbols. I always just regurgitated everything the teacher said. That's not what I like. I like actually understanding what I'm learning. Which brings me back to math: You either understand it and do well, or don't understand it and do poorly. (Although I'm sure everyone has tried BSing their way through certain math problems... I did that with those bastard trig identities until my teacher caught on.)
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That's twice now that I've wholeheatedly agreed with you (and some others).
Both English and Math came easily to me (and that means you can test well in almost anything, even if you don't have any common sense).
So I took Math in college because it was an easy A. Then it bit me in the butt in my junior year, when we had to start "proving" all of the theorems we'd been using for two years. That sucked out loud.
However, so does having to fill up some English Lit paper with a bunch of bullshit. Give me a math problem with a definite answer any day.