When I was first accepted into the TexPrep program to begin my first year of instruction, I honestly never expected much to come out of it. I shrugged it off and thought of it as an excuse for parents to get kids out of the house for a few hours in the summer. It wasn’t until the end of the instruction that I perceived how much my time there had actually aided me in my studies. For one thing, what the teachers introduced to me in their courses bewildered me as I most likely would have never learned what was offered, at least at the pace of a regular high school student. I learned more about the many uses of a calculator, such as graphing algebraic equations, slope, intersecting lines, etc. I was also prepared for my upcoming Algebra course
