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Similar experience here. Coming out of high school, my head just wasn't in the right place to take advantage of college on any level and it'd be another 10-15 y
by jwells89 3y ago
Similar experience here. Coming out of high school, my head just wasn't in the right place to take advantage of college on any level and it'd be another 10-15 years with all of the accompanying life experience before that'd change.
Part of this I'm sure has to do with how high school is structured (its almost total absence of practical examples for using what was being taught was a huge damper on my interest in it, for example), but there's also just so many other things on a young adult's mind competing for attention that it's no wonder many students struggle.
- notsurenymore 3y ago> its almost total absence of practical examples for using what was being taught was a huge damper on my interest in it, for example Ag yes, notably, I just could not care about calculus when I was in high school. I understood it had practical users, but at the time it just seemed far away from me I couldn’t bring myself to care. Flash forward years later and I find myself interested in problems where that knowledge might have actually been useful.
- mips_r4300i 3y agoAlso couldn't care less about math in school, until it came time to write game engine stuff. I learned trig so fast, and it made intuitive sense because I could directly model it in my game. Same with matrix math. Kids have a hard time handling abstract concepts, especially boys whose brains develop slower and for a longer period.