B.O.B. Getting behind.

Some of you who realized, a couple weeks ago I missed four days of school to go see my brother graduate from the Army. Now, mind you, I got all my work for my five classes before I left. But as I started to try to work on it, I realized I had no idea what I was doing. I looked up online to see if I could try to figure out myself what was going on.

This whole unit, up until Thursday, has been pretty muddy for me. One of the hardest things for me was having to find the domain of rational functions. I had no idea that you had to take the part underneath the rational and set it greater than or equal to zero.

An Example:

f(x)= 

a>=0

So that means that the value "a" can only be greater than or equal to zero. So the domain would be [0, ∞ ). We use the bracket for zero because it can equal zero and the parenthesis because you cannot equal or touch infinity.

As the problems get longer and more complicated, this process gets more difficult. Then I would start making mistake and get really frustrated with myself. To me, it clicked when I stayed after school for a couple hours. It helped a ton so I could catch up on the stuff that I missed and understand the things that we were just beginning to learn and add to our previous skills. Morals of the story; Don't miss school as much as possible, come before or after school to get help, and don't get frustrated when you make a mistake. 

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

Abby Mellon