Math and Engineering
I just finished working with some incoming freshmen to university. All of them are going into either engineering or science and a lot of them complained about not liking math. The absolutely floors me, to have any chance at engineering you have to like math.
I don’t know what causes this, but they have this hatred of math combined with a need for heuristics and “tricks” to do even simple factoring. These heuristics replace their intuitive understanding of algebra and use of the “standard” rules of algebra to solve problems. I can definitely see where this use of heuristics and “tricks” prevents them from properly understanding axiomatic math.
It just floors me. They’d be better off just doing speed drills of basic operations of math then learning all these tricks.