Personal Essay: Math In Middle School

Math Essay

Math is a subject that I never wanted to pursue in life and is something I’ve been trying to avoid ever since I ended high school. I do not like math because it is just numbers to me that just gets too complex. I do not think that I am bad at math, but it something that never has caught my interest and I can never really get into it. The only way to have math part of my life is if I have to take a math as a general education course. Which is exactly why I am taking this class, I did not take it because I had an interest in math or for whatever reason, I only took it because I had to. If I could, I would have avoided math my whole college career. But for some ridiculous reason, colleges want you to take courses that are just unnecessary and annoying. When you could be taking an actually core class, you have to take some ridiculous and unrelated course that is tedious.

Doing well in math during middle school, I was placed into geometry of my freshmen year of high school. That means I was one year ahead then the average freshmen, who would be taking algebra I in their freshmen year. I hate geometry because why do shapes need to be involved in math, it is unnecessary. Then the next year, I took algebra II, which I absolutely hated because geometry was still involved and just made math more difficult and I thought it was unnecessary because it still had nothing to do with what I wanted to do. In my junior year of high school. I had to take pre-calculus, which still deterred my away from math. IT was bad enough that shapes were part of Algebra II, but to have a whole subject that is literally combining geometry and algebra together, is just making my life ten times more hard than it has to. In my senior year, I had to take calculus, I hated it