[150-166] So the course that I withdrew from was discrete mathematics. And that’s widely renowned as an easy course. The math is logical. It follows a real-life story that’s not difficult to wrap your head around. However, I had it at 9:00 AM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That’s the first mistake. The second thing was that although the professor was a good lecture, his assessments did not reflect the lecture material. In lecture, he would give example problems. He’d write out the theory. But then the questions he gave us on tests and quizzes were very tricky, challenging examples. Instead of the straightforward ones he had put on board. And I knew five people in that class. On the first quiz, none of us got above a 17%. And of the five people, all of them withdrew from the class. I withdrew because of a couple of things. I was getting really frustrated with the amount of work that I had to do. I felt like there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be succeeding in a math class. I’m very good at math. And I felt maybe pushing it to a later time with a different teacher would help me succeed. Especially since it wasn’t a prerequisite for anything, so it wasn’t messing with my long-term plan of study.
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