I am a second-semester freshman, and I am a Marketing Business major. My desire path is the analytical side of marketing that does most of the surveys and data collection and conversions for advertisers and major companies. By no standards was I expecting this path to be easy or lacking in math; however several challenges I have faced in my freshman year so far are strange to me.

For starters, I am two months into the second semester of my college freshman year, and I am severely struggling in my 1413 survey of calculus class, which is an intro to calculus class tailored for business majors. Our most recent test felt like a slap in the face to me because I went from making a B on the first test to making an F on the second (recent) test even though I did the same amount of studying and changed nothing on my end.

I am left thinking that it was something wrong with the test and my understanding however upon greater reflection it could have been something else entirely because the overall test grades in my class 12 out of 22 students got F's leaving the current grades of the class extremely skewed right with most of the class in D range or below. Given that this is a core class required for business majors, I'm sure most people are feeling the same stress and pressures that I am right now. Luckily, I have three more tests to pull up my grade and hope for the best!