All the textbooks I ordered last week were delivered today, so I can start my year-long refresher course as soon as I get off work. My plan is to reapply for college next fall. Instead of going to grad school, I want to earn a second undergrad degree, a BS in astrophysics. I need to go back over all the math I've forgotten since high school. I'm pretty sure I have algebra 1 and geometry down pat, but I got both of those just to be on the safe side. The real work will be relearning algebra 2, trig, pre-calc, and calc 1. For reasons too complicated to explain here, I took calculus before trigonometry, so I knew next to nothing going in and spent my senior year of high school playing catchup in the same class as the valedictorian and the gifted kids. I passed my AP calc exam by the skin of my teeth and promptly forgot everything because I was burned out. If I could do it then, I can do it now. It'll all come back to me in bits and pieces as I work through the courses (in order this time).
