Personal Narrative: Analytic Geometry And Calculus

My most valuable experience would be when I took Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1 over the summer. The reason for that would be that it gave me some valuable life lessons that contributed to my success in the years after I took this course. This experience began with an idea that I came up with as the end of my sophomore year began to creep up. I came to the decision of taking a Calculus course over the summer that way when I face calculus problems in my future math classes, they will not be new to me and I would be ready to tackle them. I not only chose to take this class for preparation but I also made this decision due to my strong personal interest in advanced math. Math has always been my favorite subject and my strongest, and when I learned …show more content…
This however did not startle me since I knew that I would stick around to the very end and that will not be one that will drop the class when adversity hits. With that in mind the summer progressed and the difficulty began to ramp up really fast. The course was a whole class of calculus 1 put into only eight weeks so the speed of the class was something I had to adapt to. For the first time ever I struggled with keeping up with the class, I had to learn new, complex material in a short amount of time and well since each day we covered up to three sections in a chapter. When tests began I really struggled since I had limited time to take the tests and only a brief understanding of the subjects. Ultimately, I didn’t perform as well as wanted to on the tests and my motivation and moral were starting to become depleted. This was the worst I have ever felt in my math career since I was not performing at my fullest potential and I knew I could do way better. This is where everything changed, I knew that if I was going to succeed in my future classes that are going to be as difficult as this class, then I had to prove to myself that I could succeed