Go me! Lots of school ramblings

I'm really doing this, and even impressing myself. Math has never been my forte. I barely met the requirements to graduate high school math(remedial math in the 10th grade was my last math class) I think I got an F+ that my teacher rounded up to a D- just to save herself the frustration of having to teach me again the next year. So knowing that.... would you be impressed to know that today I only missed ONE question on my math exam? We've been working on basic addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios/proportions, conversions(metric,apothecary,household) and dosing calculations. Last week we had two math quiz's and my scores were 31% and 42% That motivated me! So last weekend I sat at my kitchen table(no exaggeration) for 6hours on Friday(after school) 11hours(straight) on Saturday and a solid 8hours on Sunday. Granted I spent most of the time Friday doing other homework and required reading...Saturday and Sunday I taught myself math! For the first time in my life I feel like I finally "get it" I know that amt of time seems excessive, but its really what it took to make it stick. On Monday we had a quiz and I got 100% I was so happy I cried, and then when the majority of the class FAILED it(because many of them didn't want to be bothered to learn conversions over the weekend) and the teacher THREW THEM AWAY AND I DIDN'T GET CREDIT EITHER----I threw a HUGE temper tantrum and I still didn't get credit, lol. I was mad, I worked REALLY hard and gave up time with my kids and my family to learn and really resented those who didn't take it so seriously. Then the next day we were re quizzed and I missed 4---and cried again in front of everyone because I knew I got them wrong before I turned in my text because Id forgotten what the heck the mL after the / meant in the dosing calculation(something seriously simple) but it was only four points----but damnit it wasn't the 100% of the day before. Anyway we had the big "exam" today and like I said I only missed one(again something so simple) the answer was 1/2 and I wrote ss which also means 1/2---I guess I got confused about when to use the ss and when to say 1/2---duh. Oh well I'm still really proud of myself. Moving on from math we also had our 5th Med Term quiz and I got 100% ---yay! I have a lot of 90%s but this was my first 100% . I'm mostly getting 81-84% on everything...I know that's awesome but honestly I wish I was doing slightly better---Ive become pretty close to a few ppl in the class and they are in the 90's(the only 2 who are btw) I think right now we only have 7(that I know of) of 21students(we started as a class of 27) in the 80% range and after the final next week(which is worth 50% of our grade) whoever doesn't have an 80% will be dropped from the program(that should be interesting---oh and don't think I'm not VERY aware that I could easily be one of them---even though I have an 84% in the class right now the final IS worth 50% so anything can happen) OH! and I almost forgot! We learned how to insert NG tubes yesterday---I volunteered to so that our instructor could demostrate on me for the class....not the most pleasant experience of my life---nothing like allowing someone suck your stomach contents out into a syringe for your classmates to examine!