What a difference two decades make

I’ve been making pretty good time on my Udacity College Algebra course and it occurred to me tonight how different the whole experience has been since I first got a taste of Algebra roughly twenty years ago, as a High School student.

Back then, I looked at my peers and compared myself to them. I saw that everyone else was busy writing things down and flying through the assignments and just magically understanding it all. And I wasn’t.

Why is it so easy for them?

Why is the teacher moving so fast...