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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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 [...]

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 [...]