Who else here was

>math teacher
>"you have a way with words"
Like a math teacher would pick up on a student's potential and lack of motivation through language and speech, and not through scores and statistics. Keep it as the language teacher, .

I think the key comes from changing your habits.

Were you going to play a game on your phone while in line, or were you going to read your textbook on your phone?

If you're going to watch videos online, are you watching gaming channels, or are you watching science/math channels?

If you're going to read things online, are you reading wikipedia articles or are you reading comics?

By changing what you do in your free time, your homework will feel closer to your free time. Eventually you don't feel much of a difference any more and getting work done doesn't feel like a chore in your life.

>Came to America to escape war
>13 years Dad Died
>Mom Never around
>Bullied and beat up
>Sold Drugs to pay for living expenses
>Worked 3 hours a day everyday
>went to church
>Skipped 2 grades
>Went to UCSF
>Transferred to Berkeley Med-School
>Set up a chain of medical practices
>Got cancer
GG.
Mine.

>leave high school with a 3.7
>parents divorce midway through senior year
>mother is all kinds of crazy and takes out all her emotions on me
>told my dreams are stupid and get no help applying for college
>depressed and stressed out constantly
>work shitty jobs for two years
>no future no goals=>make shitty friends smoke weed every day
>finally start community college while still working 30 hours a week
>1st semester straight As
>2nd semester stress sets in, start smoking weed again, mother still batshit=> poor grades
>BADLY break collarbone day before fall semester begins
>finally drop stressful job
>still stressed=>gpa drops to 1.4
>fuck fuck fuck
>spring semester take a geology class
>fall in love
>spend next year retaking classes and fixing gpa
>current year getting full ride at community college 3.2 gpa
>independent study geo, reg geo, chem, physics, calc I, secretary of geo club, working at a liquor store on the weekends
>finishing associates in science this spring

I'm 24 so I still feel like a failure, but at least things are finally coming together. Applying to transfer to a state school for next fall now. Hopefully things will work out.

Nice blog post, faggot.

I still have trouble adding numbers together that are multiple digits.

It doesn't matter, since I'm still able to be successful in a top 20 math PhD program.

Good on ya dude, keep it up

How. How do you not just take 30 minutes every other day or so to work on that? It'd be so easy. It's helpful when you're making purchases and balancing your accounts.

I learned long division for both integers and polynomials in school but I forgot. I even remember that by late high school my division skills were shit as calculators were allowed.

Then I learned where division came from, had to basically smoke Euclid for a week and now I am a new man.

>Who else here was
>>kek smart but lazy meme
>before university but then stepped it up once they entered higher education? what's your story user, why'd you pick stem?

>tfw I actually made a full circle
as soon as my internship and current semester started I began neglecting the study, and putting all of my powers into future employment.
in fact, current semester burnt my ass so bad, that I even made a thread here

>study orgo chem
>have 2,5 subjects that have something to do with chem
>rest are dicksucking engi shit, ecology, civil safety, history of national culture