Assingment 8- Slipping through the cracks- Chuck Logsdon

Fears: Dying, upsetting someone, being poor when I grow up
Annoyances: People making a big deal out of minor stuff, small talk with people I don't like.
Accomplishments: winning journalism scholarship, having a good friend group
Confusions: Multiplication, what happens when you die,
Sorrows: Deaths in the family, failing at something I put a lot of work into
Dreams: Having a comfortable job, having a solid support system when I am living independently
Idiosyncrasies: Playing with my DS, optical allusions
Risks: Going into unfamiliar social settings.
Beloved possessions: Stuffed cat (then) Relationships with cousins (now)
Problems: Staying on top of my grades, Being productive.

I do not know how to do multiplication on paper. It seems crazy, I know, but it is a skill I never learned and do not plan on ever learning. Even writing this right now seems kind of absurd, there must have been some point in school where they made sure everyone knew how to do written multiplication, I suppose I was absent that day. While I find it odd that I managed to slip through the cracks and get away with 11 years of schooling without ever learning multiplication but I am not at all upset or regret never learning this skill. I now want to see if I will ever need to know it at all, the math we do now seems much more advanced and the skill of written multiplication seems obsolete. I don't expect to ever need this skill and if I do I will gladly accept the consequences but I find peace knowing I have made it this far without ever learning how to multiply.