When I was in junior high school, geometry was the last math class I understood both how to decode the formulae and theorems as well as why there was a purpose for doing so. I’m not exceptionally spatially minded, but given the facts, I can generally work out the size of a triangle. Algebra, on the other hand lost me once there were more letters involved in the equations than numbers. I barely made it out of algebra and always thought it would be nice, as a writer, to have a college degree, but discovered in my forties that algebra was even less intelligible to me then than it was before. I spent three terms taking pre-college algebra courses at our community college trying to get beyond quadratic equations. It was at that point that I realized that writing every day would stand me in better stead as a writer than having a degree. So to all of you have faced down higher math classes and succeeded, I salute you! I’ll just stick to my circles, squares and triangles.