Writing in Numbers

I had a professor of theoretical mechanics that was fascinated with me. She couldn't comprehend how I knew all theories, could prove them, could solve any problem she presented in class, and...yet, I was unable to solve one problem that differed. It was easy to explain because my father labored for years, but still trains didn't meet, and, please, God, keep me from calculating water pouring in and out of a pool... Since my family only understood A-grades, I had tutors showing me all variations of problems and then I could solve them without any comprehension... In college, I had a friend whose handwriting I learned to match perfectly, I did her theorems which she never remembered and wrote her essays, but she was able to solve any problem in calculus...physics...theoretical mechanics... By the way, I got all A and she got mostly C-grades... Let's be clear, she was much smarter than me.