An educational update:
I finished spring quarter with some good grades, bringing my credit total to 20: 10 credits of math, 5 of English, and 5 of philosophy. I decided to take it easy in the summer quarter, and am taking two online classes, which means I am home for dinner every night (a big plus!).
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The break between Summer and Fall quarters is the longest of them all. This year, Summer ended August 14th, and Fall began September 22nd. That coupled with the fact that both courses I took for the Summer were online led me to forget a whole lot about scheduling time for classes, or what you should [...]

So I’m taking a math class (pre-calc), mostly as a way to try to feel less dumb in my day-to-day life. I’m doing OK at it, getting most of the “higher” principles such as using conjugates to decomplexificate* a complex ratio. But I’m having trouble remembering some of the basics, especially during quizzes.
Historically, I’ve done [...]

I think I am missing that bone in the brain that allows you to prove trigonometric identities. I just got done with the first half of a final, and I totally botched one of the questions, which was “Prove tan (pi / 4 + x) = (1 + sin2x) / cos2x”. I got as far [...]