Studying Math

The drawing here reminds me of a kid I tutored who introduced himself as follows, “Hi, Mr. Shields.  I’m Andy.  I hate math and it hates me.”

Of course, I chuckled amiably and tried to reassure him that we were about to change all that.

What makes this story worth telling is that things got worse before they got better.  What really sent him through the roof was when he learned that some problems have more than one solution.  He thought this is positively demonic.