Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
Some peoples' brains delight in math. My Aunt Bertha's did, and so does my big sister's brain! Another friend, Sue, who is now retired as an accountant, said she always loved math because there is only one right answer, and once you get it, that's it! My sister says it's like solving a cool puzzle - she now is a software engineer, dealing with lines of code on mainframe computers. I would shudder with boredom, but she loves it!
Nooooooo! (running in circles with my hands over my ears!) I am so NOT a math person. I have to be careful to figure a tip correctly, I don't like reconciling the check book.

I have a former co-worker whose daughter is a mathlete. She does Sudoku puzzles in ink. She is now a college student majoring in math and computer science. Give me a crossword puzzle any day. In nursing school I learned to calculate intravenous drip rates and do dose conversions, which was necessary in the "good old days". Nowadays the Pharm.D.'s have a lot of responsibility for checking correct doses, almost everything is unit dosed, and IV pumps are so small and so smart that there's no reason to run IVs to gravity alone anymore.

Alysser, whatever you decide about these two courses, I hope it works out for the best!