Math has always been humbling for me, because it is that one subject where it won't simply click for me for quite a long time.

If feels like there is no progress at all, even after hours and hours, over the course of several weeks, getting after class help and tutoring. Suddenly the lessons will begin to make sense, like a flood, but the pacing of the average math class means that I'm already weeks behind and quickly become hopelessly behind schedule on homework due dates and being prepared for tests.

Especially in what I consider higher level mathematics, I struggle to remember formulas, processes, and other things that are necessary to break complex problems down and solve them.

All the numbers and functions seem arbitrary, so even as I'm solving them I can't tell if I'm going in the right direction, or if I'm completely off base in the method I chose to solve the problem.

It's always been difficult to solve the puzzle when you can't relate what you're seeing in front of you to the tools you're supposed to use to solve it, or how it makes sense. It all just seems arbitrary, which is the exact opposite of what math is. Frustrating.