Beauty School Mathematician

Everything I learned about geometry I learned in beauty school. I would like to justify this statement in some way but unfortunately it is completely true. When I was in high school I took geometry my sophomore year. I remember my teachers name was Mr. Miller and I sat next to the dumbest girl ever. Of course this is coming from the girl who learned geometry as a beautician so take this with the grain of salt that belongs to it.  This is going to date me a bit but I was a sophomore when the first Iraqi war occurred and the dumb girl and her mother went shopping the night before the war broke out because they knew that the price of clothing was going to go through the roof the next day and they would be forced to wear the same clothes for years or at least past one fashion season. This is really all I remember about this class.  I passed the class with a C or maybe it was a B either way I cannot tell you how to figure out the circumference of a triangle or the length of a rectangle.  I realize those examples are wrong but they give you a hint of the blindness I have where geometry is concerned. I left that class thinking I will never worry about these types of things again.
Only I decided to drop out of college after my first year and go to beauty school. This is where my hair turned every color under the rainbow and my family continuously sang 'Beauty School Dropout ' to me. As a child one of my favorite movies was Grease but I always thought of myself more as a Sandy. Anyways, what you may or may not know is that geometry plays a huge role in hairdressing. The angle you hold the hair when you cut it will determine how the hair stacks up or flips out.  Or the angle of a curling iron or hot roller will determine how curly or wavy your hair will be. Because the geometry was dumbed down that even a blond like me understood it, I thought I was an Einstein of hair angles but mostly I was just smarter than the other bleach blonds in my beauty class. By the way,  I also think I am a chemist genius because of all the chemicals I played in while doing hair. Only a few people came away with bald spots during my learning curve but that is a story for another day.

Roll forward to today. Recently my mother told me to put my money where my mouth is and try for my phd. Only problem is I have to pass this test called the GRE. Now I think the writing and reading portion of the project should be doable but the math required or mainly the geometry is from hell, yeah I said it. Apparently you need to know how to figure out a right triangle from a left in order to score high enough to get into a political science program. I am not sure how the two correlate but it is a hoop that I am going to attempt to jump through.  Luckily the local libraries has tutorial online courses to brush up on your math skills. I went to the college graduate level for geometry only to learn nope don't belong there, I went to the college level and they were not my friends either. I had to go to the high school level tutorial to begin the process of understanding those mysterious formulas and angles. Beauty school circles and triangles be damned. I might actually have to learn what I slept through in High School; geometry.