Math makes NO sense to me

As some of you know, I'm in college again. I'm taking 1 class for this summer session, since they cancelled my Weightlifting class. The lucky class that I'm in right now is College Algebra. I know that Algebra is "an important skill to have." But in this day and age of computers and cell phones, why should I have to know a skill that is redundant. Because of technology, I can find the answer to anything I want, or need, to know.

Another thing I learned today is that Algebra is not a good subject for anyone who is in any way philosophical. Today we were discussing the topic of "imaginary" vs. "real" numbers. If you are a bit out there (like I definately am), you know that reality is just a construct of the mass sub-conscious of humanity. Which means that everything is a result of imagination. So, to put it into a mathematical equation:

Reality=Imagination.

Which means that NOTHING really exists. So the whole concept of "real" and "imaginary" numbers is flawed, since reality and imagination are one and the same thing. I think that numbers were invented to try to explain that nothing truly exists, why else would the concept of "i" have to be explained. I was always told that anything (whether positive or negative) times itself is a positive. If this is true, then how can you get a number that is negative (if you are squaring itself). So basically everything that you thought you had known is a LIE. Numbers are and have been made up for years.

The professor went off topic for about 20 minutes (in a class that meets everyday for an hour and 35 minutes, that's a lot of MY time that is wasted). He tries to over-simplify the easy things and then whizzes through the difficult problems. He spent 20 minutes trying to relate the concept of "i" to an ear of corn. It confused the hell out of me so I decided to just quit consciously paying attention.

Sorry about all that, that damn class makes me think about how stupid having to learn Algebra really is. I had a word problem yesterday that made no sense at all. They wanted me to find the distance a runner ran in a given amount of time. What got me was the they said he was running at a speed of 6 meters a second. First off, that is an inhuman speed, at least it is for me. Second off, why would anyone want to run? That's it for now.

Let's all visualize Whirled Peas.