The "Grammy Brain" is alive and well.

The ups and downs of going to college have hit home this semester.  As I have said, the C++ class I have been taking is really taxing my poor old brain.  Last week I discovered why:  the department chair I talked to about my problems told me that I should be working on a minor in mathematics to be in that class!!!  I had already checked out some symbols and terminology that I didn't have a clue about and discovered that algebra has changed a whole lot in the last 50+ years and that some of the terms were actually from statistics, which I have never had.  It turns out the problem wasn't my brain after all, but my educational background.  It never occurred to me that algebra would change that much since I took it way back when they were chipping "a=c+b/10" on rocks.

The result of all these discoveries is that I have dropped the class and, since no other classes that I need were still open, I am spending this semester completing projects here at home, reading books I have stacked in waiting, and catching up with myself.  Needless to say, I am already enjoying the resulting drop in my stress level.  I was really feeling like a complete dunce until I started researching the symbols and terms I had never seen before, much less understoond.  What a relief!!!  My "grammy brain" is not totally gone.  I am looking forward to taking a computer class I do need in the fall and maybe a Gen. Ed. one this summer.  Thanks for the continued support and kind words.