They Told Me Quantitative Literacy Would Be Easy...What A Lie For a Dumdum Like Myself

EDIT: Adding on to my post, I am generally ok/mediocre at Computer Programming languages like Java, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

I'm about to graduate with my Associate's Degree in IT/General. I was forced to do a math class to graduate and had the choice between Pre-Calc, Algebra, and Quantitative Literacy. My advisor told me Quantitative Literacy was the easiest, so I went with it. Oh how wrong I was...

I got through the Quant. Literacy Support class easily, it wasn't that hard. But anything to do with the actual class, has been making me bang my head against a wall until I stubbornly figure out how to do the damn questions. I struggle alot with all the probability questions, the finance questions, and probably at least a good 40-50% of the class material. I suck at Math. I hate Math with a passion. And I have a good prediction that I won't use any of this Quantitative Literacy nonsense in my career, if not in my life at all.

I do not see me busting out my iPad midway and doing math calculations for anything in my lifetime. If I need to math, I will use a calculator, an online algebra solver, or websites that have the formulas all set up for me like loan calculators, permutation/combinations calculators, total proability/odds calculators, fractions calculators, etc.

I'm sorry but I see quantitative literacy as useless to me, as well as most generally mid-advanced mathematics. I have not had to use mid-advanced mathematics most of my life and I am almost 30. I doubt I will use it for the rest of my life, including my career. And if I do, when it comes to developing video games, then I probably either will only learn what I need to know and let the computer do the rest, or hire someone who can do it.

P.S. I have ADHD, and whenever I do calculations and formulas, even writing them down, I have always made careless mistakes my entire life. I never got good math grades or did well in Math, failed University level Discreet Mathematics FOUR TIMES, and always end up making a miscalculation about 80% of the time I do a long calculation/formula. Or I end up being so slow that it takes me almost an hour to solve like 10-15 questions like on my test

Submitted June 16, 2022 at 12:40AM by Shin_Ryuuji https://ift.tt/6apL0nN