The countdown ends...

On Tuesday I give my exam. I have decided to end the countdown today, as tomorrow will be spent swotting.

I discovered today that I have used up 2 and a half notebooks just in these past 15 days. I still lack confidence, but at least I now know the basics (much to the relief of many people).
I'm not scared anymore. I can face math now, boldly. Heck, I can even face my math teacher and proudly tell him what he could not do in 2 years, my family, friends and I did in a fortnight. I'm ready for my exam. I will not be finishing early this time because I do not know anything, but maybe because I knew everything. Now, I know I can do it.

I have already thanked my support group like I fondly refer to them, and now I would like to thank all of you. The whole purpose of this countdown was that I would do math everyday so that I would have something to share with you guys, which forced me into doing math everyday. Somewhere along the road, there came a point where I stopped doing it just to put in on the blog. Knowing that so many people were there for me, rooting for me made me want to learn. It made me want to work. It made me want to score great marks. The blog and more importantly it's readers made this possible.

I'll be posting soon after my exam and I'll let you all know how it went. Stick around because I have some pretty interesting articles lined up. We have a guest writer with an article about a journey in Assam, and then one of mine featuring Kochi which is heralded as the Queen of the Arabian.

Thank you all for sticking with me and the blog through these 15 days, which have been filled with tears, laughter, frustration, joy, and lots and lots of learning.

3 days to become a math genius

3 days to go. And I have learnt more in these past few days than I did in two years. Life's real funny isn't it? :)

On Tuesday, I'll be giving my first math exam. I have another one later this month. At the beginning of my study leave I was scared. You can say about as scared as my neighbour is when she sees lizards. I had no clue what was going on, and numbers, and signs would just swim on the pages rather than making sense. Thanks to an amazing group of people, which consists of my mom and some really great friends, it makes sense now. I'm not perfect at math. But I'm not scared anymore.

I did some 5 and a half papers today. Most of them were easy. Some were tough. A few days days ago I would have probably said "most were tough, some were easy." I smile now when I solve problems not look at them through a haze of frustrated tears, or with eyes burning with exhaustion and hate. We're not the best of friends. But it's like my mom says. When you have to work with someone, you have to work with them. If you don't like them don't spend the evening with them. Math and I are kind of like that. I need to work with it, so I'm working with it. But unlike French, I am not doing it because I have fun with it.

Waiting for tomorrow...

5 and 4 days to become a math genius

The exam draws nearer, I become fearer (don't worry, I'm just messing around). It's been a good two days, where math is concerned. I solved 46 problems in less than an hour today I'm not going to tell you that they were really easy and spoil my image), I'm getting the hang of almost everything, and the best part is while going through my exam papers I found a lot of places where the examiner had not given me marks when I have actually gotten the answer right. Muhahaha math you know I'm going to beat you, sucker!!!

7 and 6 days to become a math genius

Sorry, but I have to post these two together. There has been a steady improvement! I'm doing papers on my own, no more nervous breakdowns, and I can actually understand stuff. Thanks to Sheldon Cooper and The Big Bang Theory, I'm not going to forget Venn diagrams anytime soon. But no one I know understands bearings. This was how my Mom summed it up today- "I don't get bearings, our neighbour doesn't get bearings and he's smart, your best friend isn't scoring well, but we know he's smart, your dad is definitely smart, and only two people in your class understand it." In other words I'm in big trouble!!
Oh well, apart from that, everything else is pretty cool!
I'm almost confident...almost.
Let's see what tomorrow brings :)