In my lifetime I have always been able to grasp things and excel at them quite fast. However, as soon as I got into the pre-engineering program at the Academies @ Englewood, that whole grasping things quickly was thrown well and beyond out the window. In the beginning I found my engineering class to be simple. I didn’t find it difficult to understand, everything flowed in my brain pretty easily like things normally did for me. Then I was introduced to auto desk inventor, the bane to my existence.
Auto desk inventor was software that allowed you create all types of objects digitally. It seems cool but I quickly realized that I was not able to get an understanding of how to use the program as fast as I understood other things. I wouldn’t understand what part of the shape I was supposed to extend, rotate, change, resize, crop, it all just became too difficult for me. Now usually the normal student would go ask the teacher if they are having a hard time with something, so I spoke to my teacher for help.
Although, when my teacher explained it to he wasn’t speaking a form of English that I could understand. I did not at all understand what he was saying; honestly he could have been speaking pig Latin for all I knew. For the first time in my life I became that student in the back of the classroom that gets made fun