Learning can be frustrating…

Okay, I have been working on just two chapters of my Physics for a week now. And I am still having issues understanding. This got me thinking…I am always wanting to share with my kiddos how I learn and how I got to where I am. This frustration I am suffering through is just such an opportunity.

I am frustrated. I cannot speak with my professor (since it is a holiday, the best I can hope for is an email…not too easy to explain Physics in that format). I am having trouble finding something that will help me to understand. I am at the point of just staring…which doesn’t get me anywhere.

As you can guess I am stopping putting away the physics for a minute and typing this blog…BUT I know that I have to go back to the physics and I need to try again to figure it out.

This is the part that most people have trouble with, I myself struggle with this. The first time I found myself in the position of “giving up and staying that way” was in high school. And here is the kicker, I didn’t even go to the class before I gave up. I decided that Chemistry, Physics and Calculus were just too scary to even try. So I didn’t I gave up before I even started. Now I see the problem with this…first off I wouldn’t be in this quandary of trying to figure out circular motion and angular measurements. Second, while all of those subjects have been challenging and have given me those “staring at paper, hair-pulling” moments. I have and will conquer those moments.

I truly believe that you have to have those moments to truly appreciate your knowledge. Typically, when I have suffered through these moments, I have come out on the other side with a better and a longer standing understanding of the topic. I know that will happen here also…now to just get to that AHA moment!

~Ms. O