Struggling with math?
I’d always thought I was bad at math. The formulas and steps were confusing and most math concepts felt incomprehensible.
Junior year of high school, nothing in my algebra class made sense, and my frustration only grew. I believed myself to be “laughably terrible” at math.
And just to lower my confidence even further, I scored a surprisingly low grade of 20 percent on my first test. I hold myself to high standards, so this destroyed me. I felt that I’d disappointed my teachers and myself. I wondered how this would affect my GPA and how colleges would see me. I began to spiral and think, “Colleges don’t want a failure! I won’t be able to go anywhere! I’ll end up with a terrible life all because of this stupid test!”
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