My junior year in high school, I had a very interesting relationship with my chemistry teacher. She was a brilliant woman who desperately wanted to stuff my brain with thousands of facts and theories about Avogadro and his infamous mole. However ... until I understood every word she said. But apparently she did not want to deal with my interrogation; the next thing that exploded out of her mouth was not chemistry. "What is wrong with you?" she screeched. Her eyes bulged from her head as I imagined steam shooting out of her pores. I could see the outline ... the answer so obvious to the world ...

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... a tutor, someone to answer their questions and give them individual attention. The "teach yourself" method does not work. There was no one to answer my questions on algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry and calculus. My mother knows nothing of those subjects. I"m not saying that she's incompetent but she's not a high school teacher. And whenever I didn't understand what I was working on it was ... acceptable high school education, no I didn't have to do homework or projects or papers, except this one, but I believe I got a good grasp on the basics because I didn't screw up the SAT too b...

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