This checks out. I'm a software developer who took math all through high school and my first three years of college. I barely scraped through my calculus exams,

This checks out. I'm a software developer who took math all through high school and my first three years of college. I barely scraped through my calculus exams, but I excelled at combinatorics, probability, matrix math, etc. (as long as it didn't veer into calculus for some reason). I guess I just enjoy things more when I can count them.