One important point before I begin. This all took place a long, long time ago and I was never one for taking notes on life as it moved on, therefore, some facts may be off a bit. Not intentionally, mind you, just a bad memory.
Between semesters, around the start of the new year, I had left college. Although I was quite good working with numbers, my first year at Andrews University convinced me (as well as my math professor) that becoming an algebra teacher was not in my future. This was indeed a disappointment as it was the future I had been looking forward to ever since I started high school.
But there is more to math than numbers. There is theory — lots of theory. Of course I had run into the theory in my geometry and trig classes in high school. Those classes had not been easy for me and my grades in them were not fodder for bragging. I did enjoy the classes and I did pass them. So I was not too concerned as it was not the theory classes I wanted to teach.
It only took the first two semesters to determine that I should change course and take up a different major. I chose business. Accounting 101, or whatever it was called, was not difficult for me. Economics was. There was all that theory again. As with geometry and trig I actually enjoyed the economics class, I simply was not good at it.
That is why, at the end of my third semester, I had no idea which way to go. Read the rest of this entry »