Did any of you other nerds sort of just glide through math in school and felt inadequate once you got to the real world, like: "I can't be a real engineer, I barely understood trig!"

That was me, then I started studying the fourier transform about a week and a half ago (because I bought an Arduino and want to make real-time sound visualizations)

I found that I actually really enjoy math on my own time. Learning about complex numbers, Euler's formula, polar form, whatever whatever - it was exciting and I was doing practice problems on paper and enjoying it!

Hopefully this momentum continues. Maybe one day I can be a genuine tough-guy engineer with math skills.

Hmm... 'How I became a tester?' would be a question for this answer... well... one of the reasons, anyway.

True, though. In school, many things are pushed onto us. We appreciate them more when !forced to do them.

No, I love math and did well until we got a bitch math teacher (have pretty much always had a new teacher every year) which made me demotivate and became generally bored in class, in my final year I would annoy the math teacher because I would find alternative solutions to math problems. What do you mean there are 2 answers I just did <insert random work around here>, thinking of stuff that had a square root over a division, can't remember what it was called :(

I have more appreciation of that math teacher now than I did in school, he was pretty supportive with programming as well, but it was not his forte and I had outgrown the help he could give there by that time already. Also had fun arguing with him that 0/0 = 1 :D