Wherein math starts becoming _really_ fun

The boring part turned out to be not so boring.

Sure drilling math is tedious, but something amazing is happening. Math is taking less effort.

I had a sneaking suspicion that this would happen, like it has with reading and writing and thinking in other languages...I was at the point where I knew I liked the idea of doing math, but math of any complexity quickly became too much effort to be really fun. Mostly it was the results and their applications that kept me coming back and soldiering through. Now, I'm starting to see how if things keep up the way they have been, math could be the sort of thing I get the urge to do after a few drinks, or when I wake up on a saturday morning, and that just makes me really happy, because this stuff is beautiful.

I also feel like I'm solidifying the foundation that I lacked. It wasn't until mid-high school that math really turned around for me and became something I was a) good at and b) capable of enjoying, and since then I've done quite well, but I think I've always suffered from not a lack of grounding in the basic concepts. The hardest part of calculus problems were always the basic algebraic operations, and that sort of thing. If that changes because of all this drilling, then GRE prep may be one of the best things that's happened to me in quite a while.