I Calculated All the Wrong Ratios

Sitting in my dorm at 3AM, staring at another A+ on a math exam I'd forgotten taking. I could calculate any ratio perfectly. 2:1 flour to sugar. 5:10 girls to boys. But somehow I'd spent four years optimizing the wrong equations. Study hours to sleep: 8:2. Panic attacks to actual crises: 10:1. Self-worth to GPA: completely dependent. I mastered reducing fractions but never learned to reduce my own expectations. Cross-multiplied everything except what actually mattered. Turns out the ratio that broke me wasn't in any textbook. It was simple: how much I'd sacrificed to who I used to be. Infinite to zero. That's when I realized I'd been solving for the wrong variable this whole time. The answer was never in the math—it was in remembering that some things can't be simplified, scaled, or compared. Some things just are. #Education #AcademicBurnout #MathAnxiety