I Failed Math Spectacularly in High School — And I Still Made It In Business

I had this math teacher. His name was Kent Clark, otherwise known as “man super” to everyone — get it? His cheap brown polyester pants were a bit too tight for high school, and he must have found his shirts on sale because he was always wearing the same brown shirt. It was always brown. I am sure he was a nice man, I was just never interested in knowing him, at all. Math class was always held in the basement classrooms of the school. It was dark, damp, dingy, and cold. Pair that with the brown garb of the teacher, and that's where my attitude to math began. Mr. Clark was forever trying to drill into my brain the concepts of points, lines, angles, and planes and how to calculate them all. To my addled hormone-driven teenage brain, I didn't care, and furthermore, when was I ever going to need this in real life? I was never going to be a teacher. I was never going to be an architect, of this I was sure. In fact, any profession that used math I was never going to do, as far as I was concerned. <a href="https://medium.com/@clelacheur/i-failed-math-spectacularly-in-high-school-and-i-still-made-it-in-business-cbb553550450">Website</a>