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CTR Engineering Group,
Sony Technology Center
 
 
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Struggles with Math
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I think my first calculus class I got a C and which was unusual for me because I always got As and Bs all the way through high school. And then in my second calculus class -- when you get out of high school, your social life kind of steps up and I was failing it. I had to withdraw and I had to take it over. The same thing happened for calculus III, too. I was failing it and I had to retake the class. And so I think a counselor tried to talk me out of math as a major, and all the way through junior college most of my math classes were Cs or Bs or classes that I repeated. Then I transferred to San Diego City College because even though math was my major, I wasn't sure what I could do with it. Most people were telling me, oh, you're going to teach, right? I was thinking, I don't want to be locked into this teaching. There's got to be something else I can do with a math degree.