8 days to become a math genius

I did a paper today!! And apart from construction and bearing I pretty much got everything else right. Getting somewhere? I hope so. It was a disappointing afternoon, but a productive evening. Walking randomly in the cool evening air helps clear one's mind, especially when one has to do more math afterward. :P

9 days to become a math genius

My laptop is now officially kaput.
Back to math. It is seriously getting on my nerves. Remember what I said about getting better at it? It isn't happening anymore. I'm back to square one and even more frustrated than ever. It's the point where I have myself convinced that math is stupid, I'm stupider, math is useless and since I'm not going to get it right anyway, now would be the best time to give it all up.

And I have only 8 days to get it all together. *Gulp*

10 days to become a math genius

Again, I'm sorry I couldn't post yesterday. But you know what?? I did a whole question paper on my own, couldn't figure out one question and made one mistake in the other. Things are certainly looking up! But still not confident, still having problems with geometry and trig, and still trying to figure out what on earth I'm going to do for the exam. *Silent scream*

11 days to become a math genius

I'm so sorry I could not post last night. I kinda lost it. Forget kinda, I did lose it. I was an emotional wreck. I had no clue what to do, I was drawing a blank at everything.

Like my mom says, I have hit the wall. The stage where everything becomes boring and unbearable. God this sucks! I need to get past this mess!! Advice?? Feel free to leave a comment or mail me at ritealot@gmail.com

12 days to become a math genius

Phew! I'm glad my brain cannot function anymore...I've been doing math on and off the whole day. Trig is becoming simpler and simpler day by day, and forget passing, scoring good marks seems possible! I still have to get those darned three-dimensional figures right. And loci. God why on earth do we have loci??!

This whole blog idea was a good one (even though I say it myself), because my Mom keeps telling me to take a break from math and I keep saying "NOO! How will I update my blog then?!" :D

The best part of this whole venture is how many people are helping in their own way. My friends teach me, cheer me up, encourage me by telling me that even Einstein failed, and my neighbours study with me and do simple things like lending their calculators which makes a whole lot of difference! :)

13 days to become a math genius

My friend came over to teach me today. It was a hilarious disaster. I had gotten the correct answer, but he tells me "No!! You can't do that because you cannot use sine when it's not a right angle triangle." The formula used was to be precise the sine rule. Oh and then we find out that he doesn't know the exact same stuff that I don't. Great isn't it? The ultimate insult would be, according to my mom, finding out that I "know more math than both of them put together". Liking today, waiting for tomorrow :)

14 days to become a math genius

I spent the last one hour doing math. One hour and two old test papers. Bearings can be quite a bit to bear... Of course it involved a lot of help, but I did not lost my cool even once, and actually said "Good ol' Pythagoras theorem!" (I don't believe it either!) What a drastic improvement! This is actually helping...I thought maybe I'd skip math for today and then I remembered that I had to put up a blog post today and so (gulp) I had to do math. But I think I've found one more solution. And that's cursing my math teacher after I solve every problem. My Facebook status today read "Math, I hate you so darned much, I wanna beat the crap outta you by scoring real good marks." I think I'm getting there :)

15 days to becoming a math genius

Yup, you read that right. I have exactly 15 days to becoming a math genius. Why? Well, I have these life altering exams, and math is first. The whole of this year I've been failing math, and now the pressure is building up. Why am I writing this here? Simple. I need an outlet. Amusement. I've gotten various advice, but everything includes loving math so it loves me back. Now this is kind of like telling a kid to eat the veggies because they're good for health. Neither of us listen.
So what my whack-o plan is that I'll use my blog to write something amusing or crazy that happened while I was learning that day, which I think is a good plan to keep myself from strangling math (though it is not possible, I would give it a try believe me). And maybe it'll give me something to look forward to when I'm studying you know, something like "Lemme study so that I have something to write about!!"

Let's start with today...the 22nd of April. I spent around 2 hours on 15 problems. By the time I reached question number 5 I was frustrated. So when I had to find angle BAD, it was too hilarious to bear. Now it may not seem so funny to you, but hey try being me!!


That's for today! Let's see what tomorrow brings :)

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