I grew up 3 years ahead of my classmates in math. I found everything up until calculus to be easy but elegant - algebra, geometry, probability, trigonometry.

I grew up 3 years ahead of my classmates in math. I found everything up until calculus to be easy but elegant - algebra, geometry, probability, trigonometry. Much like programming, there were often multiple ways of the solving the same problem, and deriving a formula was feasible and logical. In contrast, I found calculus to be mind-numbingly boring. It required memorizing and reciting formulas upon formulas. It was the first time I felt that math was tedious, and pushed me away from majoring in math in college.