I absolutely ADORE mathematics. I've always done rather well in this subject, but it wasn't until this past year - my 8th grade year - that I realized how amazing it really is. And I realized it on my own accord. (Story time yay!)
It was January of this year, and I was already busy planning my schedule for freshman year. I planned all of my Honors classes - the highest classes they offer at my school for freshman - except for my math class(es). Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II are offered to freshman. Naturally, I want to take the highest available courses and I would hate to have to waste another year on Algebra I, as most of my classmates would (not that anyone taking Algebra I is wasting their time, I just say this as I know my capabilities and I know I can excel in higher classes). So in January, I asked my math teacher if the math curriculum we learned was equivalent to an Algebra I course (to see if I could just bypass Algebra I in high school). Her response was pretty much LOLNO. She gave me a review guide for the Algebra I final exam that I would have to pass if I wanted to skip Algebra I, and from that point on, I was going to have to tutor myself or find someone to help me if I wanted to test out of Algebra I.
Enter Kybyrian! Wyatt helped tutor me with some concepts that were more difficult... more challenging than I had previously encountered. It was at this point that I realized I really, really enjoyed math. Doing the boring, easy problems in school was awful. The class moved at a snail-like pace and I could never find something that challenged me. But now that I was learning on my own terms and learning what I wanted and needed to learn, math finally appealed to me as both a challenge and fun. That's right, fun. Sometimes I do math for fun.
As I was being enriched in the more advanced concepts of Algebra I outside of school, my school curriculum was still terribad. I don't understand how we actually moved so slow in class, but we did. So for a few months in class, I didn't even pay attention to the lesson. I'd already completed that lesson's homework anyway. I was already 2-3 lessons ahead in homework. So I'd be doing a concept completely unrelated to the one our teacher was trying to get through to the class. I think at this point, if I had just decided to nap in every math period, my teacher wouldn't have cared because she knew how far ahead I was of everybody anyway.
Not only did I pass my Algebra I exam in June to allow me to take Geometry (Honors of course), but my potential was high enough to allow me to also take Algebra II Honors as well. This was a huge accomplishment for me as I had been wanting to double up for quite some time. This is definitely what I wanted for my freshman year.
I think why I love math so much is because it troubles others so mightily - as such, I feel like I'm doing something pretty cool as I'm very good at it and it comes very easy to me. Even still, it is more challenging than most other subjects to me (which isn't saying much as every subject is very easy to me). I dunno, I just love numbers and equations and graphs and solving and math yay! <3
Google "(x2 y2-1)3-x2y3=0" and you'll see how I feel about math.