2 plus 2 is 5, right?...

You remember in school when covering complex quadriatic equations and trigonometry and crap, someone in the class would ask the teacher "When are we really going to use this in life?" Well now I know when... taking placement exams for college, that's when. And that's about it. Hence why I haven't used algebra since high school. And hence why I'm going to probably be put in remedial math classes for college.

Let's have some background here- throughout school I was in advanced math classes. I hated math, but I could do it. (At least up until the year I took Calculus and my teacher was the tennis coach... and I failed horribly.) But even when taking placement exams for the first time I attended college (1992) I scored well enough on the math that they had me bypass the first-year algebra classes and placed me ahead into the Intermediate classes. But then I quit school. Stupid, stupid, stupid...

There's one more addition to this story... Hubby has decided to go back to college too for a new life, so he's having to take all the entrance exams this week. Back when he was in high school/college he was also well advanced in math, in fact he tutored other students. Hell, he even understood calculus. And enjoyed it! (What kind of sick person enjoys math???)

Alright, the point to this shaggy dog story... the college gives you a website to visit to review math in preparation for the placement test. And, you can take a mock online test to see how you'll do. I thought ah heck, I'm sure once I look at the problems it'll all come back to me, right?

OHHH MY GAAWWWDDDD.

Looking at those algebra problems was like trying to read Chinese. I don't have a friggin clue!!! Neither did Hubby! We sat there with pencil and paper in hand to start solving, but sat staring at it, dumbfounded. Speechless. Motionless. We didn't even know where to start on how to solve them. We remember you solve the parenthesis first... but HOW??? We were able to answer question #1.... and that's it. PATHETIC! A mere 15 years of killing brain cells for me, and 30 for hubby. Ugh, I bet we're both going to be put in Beginner Algebra. How embarrassing! I've never felt closer to being in Special Ed...

In fact, here's the link, take a look and see if it looks like Chinese to you: http://wcb.neit.edu/asc/algeprc1.htm

Hubby takes his test tomorrow. I can wait on mine for now. Besides, why do I need math for ART???