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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1871096" data-attributes="member: 5100">I was always good at math.  I did fractions in my head faster than my 5th grade teacher and had to convince her I wasn't cheating.  I worked two chapters ahead in algebra -- without realizing I was two chapters ahead (I was just playing around).  When I got to trigonometry, though, I stopped cold.  To this day, sine, cosine, etc. will shut me down.  When I moved into calculus, I once again excelled -- until they threw trig back into the mix.   How wierd is that? Since I was a chemical engineering major, I was on the road to some pretty advanced math.  It's probably a good thing that I got more interested in political science than chemical engineering.  If I hadn't changed majors of my own accord, my grades in math may have forced me to do so, eventually.</blockquote>