Good story!I was never fond of math, either. Nevertheless, when I took the UA entrance exams, I scored highly enough both in English and math that I got skipped over both English Composition and college algebra, both normally required for freshmen. Instead of comp, they placed me in American Lit. I had an eccentric professor who instead had us study the Odyssey and Iliad. Go figure. In math, they placed me in numbers theory - functions and limits. All in all, it was a pretty wasted summer. Except, I guess I learned some interesting things in functions and limits, not that they're that much use to a lawyer...
In high school we were required to take a foreign language. I decided on German. This was in Norfolk. Well, Mom remarried and we ended up re-locating to Florida right in the middle of 10th grade - and they didn't offer German down here (surprising, I know!) - so I switched over to Latin. The first year we learned all about the language itself. The second year guess what......we read, studied, and discussed The Odyssey and The Iliad. Our teacher also taught Chemistry. He was smart as a whip. A Duke grad. Rode a motorcycle and had a handlebar mustache, that he would pull on from time to time while lecturing. He did a great job with the Latin class and I really enjoyed how we broke down and discussed Homer's masterpieces.
Later on in college I was trying to get some hours so took two English lit classes which were also fantastic. One was all science fiction novels.
To heck with that boring math stuff....I like reading!