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I didn't hate or fail math in college but it wasn't my favorite subject in engineering school. Math is now a hobby. In college math was either taught by the math dept. and stressed all the tedious proofs or it was taught in the engineering dept. so we just memorized "recipes" to setup and crank out solutions using math without much foundation or understanding of the math. I know it is a tough line to draw between the theory and the practice/use of math but to me this was the worst possible case and I hated both methods.

A few years out of school I ran across a math problem (not work related) that was interesting enough to dig in to and started hanging out on math stackexchange and later even bought mathematica to help me understand AND solve problems FOR FUN and I was hooked.