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>senior year of high school, calculus AP test
>i have a TI 89, most people have an 84 or 85 or something (calculator)
>i don't know how to do integrals on the 89 calculator, I never did them in class on my calculator
>there are some integrals we didn't learn how to do so we had to use a calculator on the AP exam for ones we couldn't figure out
>i don't fucking know what menu, what buttons to press, when to press them
>holy fuck I am going to bomb the AP exam and waste an entire year and have to retake this in college because of such a stupid reason
>spend a lot of time during exam desperately trying things on calculator
>look on back on AP test
>i gives a tip for how to do integrals on an 84
>i try to follow the instructions on my 89
>holy shitfuck it works
>i finish what i can in the time remaining, manage a 3 somehow
>if that tip wasn't there I would have failed horribly
>still senior year of high school, have to ask teachers for letters of reccomendation
>i have two teachers in mind that think i'm a good student so i know they would be willing
>too scared to ask them
>make my father furious for putting it off for so long
>ask them barely in time, feel horrible for making them do it so quickly because the deadline was in a matter of days when I finally ask them
>i almost did not get into college at all just because of fucking anxiety