And the reason why is because I took the time to do the assignments and reflect on what I learned from each of the math assignments. And also it's because I took the course over twice. So once you've taken something more than once, it kind of sticks in your mind. And I remember one of my professors saying that she saw me having a future in teaching math
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 3:03
You. So math was not my strong suit. It has always been english literature, and I definitely admire people who have a way with numbers. It's like a special love affair. It's so interesting how they can take numbers and do the mathematics and calculations, and it comes so natural. And when I tell you, I struggled, I struggled. It was like my brain just shut that part off. Now I can pay bills. I can balance a checkbook, but that's it
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:12
Hey, Che. I'm loving this conversation because I, too, am fascinated with how people research, to put it into these books and documentaries and present it to us. I know when I was reading the destruction of black civilization from the beginning, the author, who's also a historian, he said he actually had to go over to Africa. He literally had to go there to do his research and talk with the people. And he's a well traveled man
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 4:25
And he was like, if you came to class, you would get an a. And I was like, I don't, and I have a b, so why are you bothering me? But the look in his eyes, I could see like, he wanted me to excel. But at that point in time, school was just not an interest for me
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:44
I studied. That was my breakfast, lunch, and dinner was finance math. So I definitely know that feeling. But I took communication. Now, that's the major that I didn't finish. I decided to take communications online, but I didn't finish because of. And this was around 2013, I think my financial aid money ran out or whatever was going on, and so I couldn't finish it
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 4:39
When he was saying three, it sounded like tree. And I really thought we were calculating the measurements of a tree. Girl. Hot mess express. The hot mess express. And then I had this one seizure. She refused to let me fail. Like, she refused. And I remember I didn't pass, like, that test you have to pass in order to graduate. Oh. You have to take, like, an extra class
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:04
And when I look back on some of those papers, because I kept some of them, I wish I could pull them out, but they're buried somewhere. I kept some of them. I would go back and look at it like, my gosh, I wrote this because I love teachers that pull a lot out of you. Your teacher getting you very early in the morning just to help you is amazing to me. That is a godsend. But yeah, I love this