No school subject is quite like math. People either love it or hate it. Math is not subjective, there is a right answer, but there can be many ways to get to that answer. My junior year of college I took a Classical Mechanics class that taught me a lot about problem-solving with math. I would work out problems on a whiteboard in the library for hours and wonder what I was doing wrong. Working on a problem for hours could be exhausting, but the joy when I finally figured out the problem was worth all of the effort. When I felt stuck, I needed to find a new approach or if an answer didn’t make sense, I would have to scrap some of my previous work and start over, helping me figure out how to come at a problem from different angles to see which approach a problem needed. I fell in love with working through the long problems. Although hard, math makes sense. When listening to someone describe a concept I get lost very fast, however when looking at math written down, whether it be on the library’s whiteboard or in my textbooks, I can take time and go through it step by step. Unlike concepts I can break the math down into small steps that make sense in my head. While I struggle to learn the concepts of physics, learning the math behind them makes it easier, causing me to love the subject even more. I love math because it makes me want to learn more about the subject I love, even when stuck on a problem and struggling. Math makes hard things make sense.