MATH!!! Nooooooooooooooo.......
I've been trying to learn AutoCAD on my own, and I've been doing pretty good with it. I like it! But knowing me as well as I do, and basing the assumption on my past academic experience, I really do learn and retain better when I'm in a classroom setting. That's just how I'm hard wired. So I've been looking at various CADD classes and programs offered around town. Everything is either very expensive, or fast 3 day courses that I just have a feeling would be too intense for me. But the University has courses, and even certification available in Architectural Drafting, which I think would do nicely and get me some credentials that I can wave around in front of prospective employers.
So, this upcoming fall semester they're offering the 101 course: Fundamentals of CADD for Building Construction. Oooo, sounds awesome! I'm all for it, but then I go and look at the prerequisites English 111. No problem, took that decades ago. Math 105, which is Intermediate Algebra. This is a problem.
As scientifically minded as I often tend to be (I majored in Natural Sciences and Geology in my previous college career in the early 90s), MATH and I do not get along. Geometry, I love. Geometry is all kinds of buddies with me. But algebra? MY ETERNAL NEMESIS. Seriously. Going all the frickin' way back to high school.
Now, I took some math back in the 90s. I may have even taken Intermediate Algebra, I don't recall. I'm sure I probably blocked the horror from my mind in an effort to protect my delicate psyche. But even if I didn't, it has now been sooooooooo long since I've had to do any math, I can't tell an equation from a dump truck. I know this because as I've been trying to teach myself AutoCAD, I've also been trying to relearn math. Bought myself a nice workbook and everything. And guess what? MATH HATES ME. And I hate it right the heck back. *bangs head repeatedly on desk* It! Just! Doesn't! Make! Sense!!!
So I know that I cannot dive right into the CADD course. No way would I be able to do any of the math required. I couldn't even just redo the Intermediate Algebra course, because I would have no idea what's going on. No... I have to start back at Math 055, which is Elementary Algebra. *hides under the desk and sobs* WAH! I am SO pathetic!! Here I am, closer to 40 than 39, and I have to take ELEMENTARY Algebra!!! *sniffles*
So anyway... that's what I'll be doing with the next few months of my life. u_u;;
So, this upcoming fall semester they're offering the 101 course: Fundamentals of CADD for Building Construction. Oooo, sounds awesome! I'm all for it, but then I go and look at the prerequisites English 111. No problem, took that decades ago. Math 105, which is Intermediate Algebra. This is a problem.
As scientifically minded as I often tend to be (I majored in Natural Sciences and Geology in my previous college career in the early 90s), MATH and I do not get along. Geometry, I love. Geometry is all kinds of buddies with me. But algebra? MY ETERNAL NEMESIS. Seriously. Going all the frickin' way back to high school.
Now, I took some math back in the 90s. I may have even taken Intermediate Algebra, I don't recall. I'm sure I probably blocked the horror from my mind in an effort to protect my delicate psyche. But even if I didn't, it has now been sooooooooo long since I've had to do any math, I can't tell an equation from a dump truck. I know this because as I've been trying to teach myself AutoCAD, I've also been trying to relearn math. Bought myself a nice workbook and everything. And guess what? MATH HATES ME. And I hate it right the heck back. *bangs head repeatedly on desk* It! Just! Doesn't! Make! Sense!!!
So I know that I cannot dive right into the CADD course. No way would I be able to do any of the math required. I couldn't even just redo the Intermediate Algebra course, because I would have no idea what's going on. No... I have to start back at Math 055, which is Elementary Algebra. *hides under the desk and sobs* WAH! I am SO pathetic!! Here I am, closer to 40 than 39, and I have to take ELEMENTARY Algebra!!! *sniffles*
So anyway... that's what I'll be doing with the next few months of my life. u_u;;