Thread:DatAsymptote/@comment-30068319-20180902061738/@comment-3991308-20181212201820

That's usually the case with mathematics. It doesn't help that highschool maths is often badly taught, leading to a lack of appreciation. There's some amazing YouTube channels out there, though, my personal favourite being 3blue1brown that really help you visualise maths and understand what's going on. I recommend them highly! Though, 3blue1brown is a bit more of the higher level stuff, but if you do calculus/linear algebra, it's really helpful. Also, there's more channels out there, 3b1b just happens to be my favourite!

There's not much difference, except finals is at the very end of the school semester and usually final exams count for a huge chunk of your grade (more so than assignments, midterms, etc). It's definitely normal not to know, the university experience was a lot different from highschool in my case. I think as long as you keep in mind where your principles lie in terms of picking a university (what you want to study, how much you value academics/extracurriculars/social life, if you want to maintain the same friends from highschool), you should be fine!

How my parents think is honestly not at all important to me, since this is my life and my education and therefore it should be my own choice on whether or not their opinion factors into things. I guess they're proud of me for getting into the school I'm at in the first place. Being away from home has really put me into a bubble that I'm too busy with other things to think about my parents, which might sound horrible but I've been handling it well, so it's not a worry.