THE ETERNAL MATH “PROBLEM”

For some people, taking a math class is entering the deepest, darkest pits of hell. It is a place that has haunted you all of your life. Constantly, you are being asked to pass math class after math class, each time leaving and having kept no knowledge of what you learned in your memory. "Why?", you ask, "why another math class!"? Now you are in college. Here you have classes that you choose and you major in business, which has only to do with basic math! But still, there it is, a requirement for math classes. You ask people who are in the semesters above you, "Should I take the classes, is there a way around it?" They say, "Eh, just take them at the end." Do they really care about my future though?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but math will never go away. Just suck it up and take the classes as soon as you can to get them over with.
At this point, I have the ability to say that. Before I was the person I described above. To me maths was always a bunch of numbers. I just could not understand it! My view on math made a self fulfilling prophecy. The more I told myself that I was bad at math , the worst at Math I became. So try and get past seeing a bunch of numbers, see it as a problem which you need to solve. Unfortunately there is a bit of math in most, if not all, subjects. So try to understand it NOW!
When I started at NYC I was terrified about the algebra, statistics and accounting courses but when I took them I realized that everything is a matter of how you choose to see things. I tried to see it as an opportunity of learning things and I started to listen to the professors, pay attention in class, etc. The most important advice about math courses is DON’T miss classes because then you will break the “chain”. To me, math is like a chain, everything depends on the previous class; on the previous chapter. Don’t be afraid of math! You'll see that you did well and you'll feel great!!