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I mean spending eternity getting ripped apart by a black hole is pretty terrifying.

When you're walking barefoot on a clean, dry surface and then suddenly step in a liquid you weren't expecting.

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That my brain will never be able to even comprehend the vastness of it 🤯

Your local hippie drug dealer could be more involved with the cosmos than NASA with their oversized fireworks though.

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Agreed, I was poor at math in highschool but got serious In college.

Become the drug dealer for NASA engineers. I hear they really really like stimulants.

This is the right attitude to have. Not too many are born with a smooth brain. You just need to apply yourself as much as you can to become what you what to become.

You can always apply as human resource or custodian. You need to be good at math. It's not even that hard. Math is algebra, even the more advanced math is mostly algebra. Become really good at algebra, like really really good. It sucks they took down zlibrary, there were so many books available for you to become really good at math. And poof! All of it is gone in a day's time.

I sucked at math in high school but doubled down in college and aced calc 2 probably the most relevant math in engineering school aside from diff eq. Set yourself up for time to go to the tutoring lab to do your homework immediately or close to immediately after class. There wasn’t a tutoring lab for calc based physics but everyone was bombing physics so the class average got bumped up and a solid foundation in calc usually translates well to physics. If you’re at an average college this will be the case. If you end up somewhere like UofM and above this won’t be the case. If you can get a tutor in HS it will help a lot. Khan Academy was very helpful for learning math. Their YouTube videos were helpful. The key to math is practice practice practice practice.

Don’t give up on math! It’s cumulative. You will get much better at it if you don’t give up.

There's a plethora of non-technical jobs at NASA. Have a look around their careers page - check out legal, HR, corporate, marketing etc.

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For most jobs but I have a friend that's a nasa lawyer - our undergrad had no distribution Req s and the last quantitative course she took was a freshman Econ course. So there are jobs that are required for the agency itself and are vital and cool but not math-y

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I'll probably get shot down for this, but if you aren't good at math, at least be good at written English by using capital letters at the start of your sentences. Anyone employing sees that kind of thing, it's going to be an automatic no.

Had to give you an award for setting your sights high, even though advanced Mathematics is going to be required to work at NASA. Wishing you the best of luck and thanks for inspiring me also with some personal situations i have ahead of me at 4a.m.

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Sometimes all it takes is finding a way to apply it to something you are passionate about. Math in a classroom is usually boring as hell. I took Calculus classes twice, hated it both times as I dropped out the first time and barely passed the second (first in high school and then in college). Now I'm doing it again in software development and it's making perfect sense and I'm really enjoying it.

It's almost impossible to do university level math/physics unless you at least somewhat enjoy the subjects or at the very least have a clear goal you're working towards. If you enjoy a subject and are willing to spend time on it you will eventually become good at it.

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You can get better at math. It's not set in stone.