Been through all the usual school stuff and have an associate's degree in computer science.
Still cant do math.
Addition / subtraction? Sure, I guess. Multiplication? I'll do it slowly and am fairly likely to make mistakes, but okay. Division? All I've got for you there is a simple blank stare.
Anything past that? Screw it, I'm gonna fling this can of Pringles at you, go away.
Yeah... just cant do it. Never could. But also, I grew up with computers. As far as I am concerned, these machines do the bloody math so I dont have to. Granted I have to have frequent arguements with them when Windows spazzes out, but... worth it, to not have to do math.
Honestly, I blame the education system for making everything so freakishly boring. I mean, the people around me seem to consider me to be very smart. Okay, fine. I dont particularly feel smart after doing something like losing my 3-foot keychain because it was in my other hand, but okay. But none of the stuff I know really came from school. School taught me exactly three things: reading, writing, and much later on, how to type. 12 bloody years of torment and the highest one was keyboard skills. Yaaaaaay. But other than that? I tell you this: droning on at kids for hours on end about subjects they're very clearly not interested in is not very productive. If they WANTED to get me to utterly despise both math and history, well, they succeeded in that one. I clearly had no real interest, but they forced me to sit through it anyway. They didnt get me to despise computers because this was back in the early DOS days... they didnt really use computers in the schools much (except in the specific "computer lab", but I usually just snuck in there during recess to play pirated games that I got from who knows where). I usually then just didnt pay attention in most classes. Math in particular. I vaguely remember them trying to teach algebra. I also remember not listening to a bit of it. For all I know, the process of solving algebra problems may involve goat sacrifices under a blood moon. Wouldnt surprise me.
As it is, pretty much all of the stuff I do know, I learned out of school on my own.
I always told my parents over and over again, back then, that school was a waste of time, and that homework was even more of a waste of time. "Oh, but you'll NEED all this stuff about who won the Battle of the Sporks in 1723!!! It's important! You'll NEED all this algebra and goat sacrificing!!!"
HAH. Guess I won that round.
I need my caffeine, I'm getting loopy again.