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I May Be In A Love-Hate Relationship, But I Never Give Up On Finding A Solution

I'm so grateful.

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It started out nice and sweet. We never had any arguments. In fact, whenever we had problems, we would work through it together to reach a solution. There were many variables and obstacles that stood in our way but as long as we applied the right method that every relationship should be aware of, we were able to find our answer.

There were many times I wanted to give up on the problem but then I would find myself dreaming about the whole situation and how the solution was right there in front of me or how I made the silliest mistakes sometimes, like that one time I forgot to negate the expression or that time I forgot to box in my answer.

Oh yeah.

Math: it used to be one of my favorite things to do. I used to like it a lot as you could probably tell. High school was when it started taking a bad turn for me. I had a teacher that would humiliate me in front of the class by telling me to put my solution on the board before demonstrating to the class how I did it wrong.

He would yell at me for coming to class late one day. I got yelled and called out in the middle of class that my questions were unimportant and that I shouldn't ask. I transferred into his class and was told once it was too late, that he hated transfer students. It really sucked. I still tried but after seeing my scores coming back, I couldn't help but feel discouraged. The teacher's negative comments didn't help much either. I found myself slipping away from loving math and often times, wanting to give up.

Then college came along and I dared myself to take two math classes the first semester. I found that I loved the classes and the professors just as much. I was encouraged to ask questions! Even though I was challenged, I was happy — it felt like the quirky love I had for math in the past was slowly resurfacing and for that, I'm honestly so grateful.

The speaker at my graduation said that the teacher for a class shouldn't matter for a good student, but I couldn't disagree more. A teacher could be the difference between pursuing a subject and giving up on it.

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