I'm somewhat of a Math nerd. My math has to serve a purpose like a practical business application. If it doesn't I lose interest and do enough to get by as evidenced in my calc classes. I did really well in my Finance classes (Finance was my major and I had a 3.7 overall in those classes)because I saw a busines spurpose to it. The good ole Black-Scholes model for calculating Options prices! Woohoo!!