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I did quite a lot of mathematics and your last line is correct. There are lots of hard concepts in maths that you end up getting your head around but then you e

I did quite a lot of mathematics and your last line is correct. There are lots of hard concepts in maths that you end up getting your head around but then you end up with a toolbox of things to work with.

k__ 10y ago
This often eluded me in university. I had the feeling before uni, these "tools" were shortcuts for a bit more complicated processes. But the magnitude of "complicated" got risen rather high in uni. In highschool I could simply cobble together the solution while working on it at an exam, but this "cobbling" often would take a few days for higher math. Math went from a "get rules"-subject to a "memorize all the shortcuts"-subject So university math was suddendly the same as highschool history, which I hated, and less like highschool math, which I loved.
- pif 10y ago
  > Math went from a "get rules"-subject to a "memorize all the shortcuts"-subject I'm sincerely sorry for you, you clearly had no luck in the choice of uni/prof. It must have been painful.
  - k__ 10y ago
    It was. It's a miracle that I got through it somehow. Calculus was especially hard. Linear Algebra was rather nice.
- therein 10y ago
  It really sounds like you had a not-so-great teacher for your math courses at the university. What makes me think this way is I shared the exact same sentiment for math that you did in high school. I hated memorization and things took a turn for the better the moment that teachers stopped giving formulas already derived through calculus and started using calculus in front of me to get to the final usable form of the formula.