Screw You, Math

As the title so blatantly suggests, I hate Math.

I don't exactly recollect the time when I enjoyed spending time with those numbers. 

Well, actually I can. I was really good at Math till the seventh grade. When I was in sixth grade, I got hundred out of hundred marks in Math. 

No, I'm not bragging or exaggerating. I can show you my freaking report card if you like. 

Anyhow. Back to the main issue. 

I started hating Math since ninth grade, I think? Partly because I had to understand almost every single thing on my own (as my teacher wasn't that great) and I became all the more discouraged when I got the most pathetic grades in the universe. 

Things became slightly better in the tenth and eleventh grade. 

But that doesn't mean that I have (again) fallen in love with Math. 

Let's weigh the pros and cons of mathematics, shall we? 

Pros: 

Number One: It teaches you to solve problems. 

Number Two: It makes you more logical. 

Number Three: If you do get it, you score really high grades. 

Cons: 

Number One: The minute you hit high school, most of the math problems concern "x". 

Number Two: It makes you more insane if you don't get it. 

Number Three: If you don't understand it, you barely escape failure. 

I'm pretty sure ninety-five percent of what we learn is math is not really applicable, except for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 

Honestly, nobody on the street is going to come up to you and ask, "You tell me what the derivative of e raised to x is! If you don't, Imma gonna beat you into pulp!" 

Nobody on job interviews would even bother to ask you, "What do you mean by the intersection of sets? What do you mean by a factorial? How do you calculate the following equation to find x and y." 

To find x. 

For the past four years, we've been told to find the value of x. 

Dear Math, 

X freaking hates your guts. Don't you go about finding her. You aren't a detective, you irritating fool.You're just a freaking subject and you know what? STALKING is a CRIME! 

Sincerely, 

Me, the student who suffers from your tortures. 

Okay, so a lot of readers who read this dysfunctional blog might actually be good at Math. Hell, some of you might be mathematical geniuses like my father. 

I know you might have been outraged, upset by my tirade. 

Let me just clear things up:  

The thing about Math is, you won't do well unless you have an amazing teacher. You won't do well if you don't work hard. Plus, you actually have to like the subject. But you can like it chiefly through a good teacher. 

I'm pretty sure, a lot of you might be really enthusiastic about maths. So please don't feel bad about this article. 

If any of you suck at any subject as badly as I do in Math, please share your views in the comments. :) 

Much love, 

Archie.