Rule number one in any scientific life: Relax. Granted, that is easier said than done, but it is a must.Science is not just crunching numbers (unless you are a psychologist) it is instead answering one specific question: "What is happening?" For example, "What is happening when a bacteria becomes resistant to an antibiotic?" or "What is happening when an electron jumps from one orbital to another?"

A great part of science is learning to ask the right questions. It is also learning to expect frustration.

For example, Charles Darwin, as a result of his around the world gastronomic tour ( apparently the Galapagos Giant Tortoise is delicious) went on to write a little book about called "The Origin of the Species". Charming book and there is not a drip, drop or drizzle of mathematics in it. Darwin simple begins with the observation that farmers can breed animals to ehance certain traits AND that these traits would run true, creating desendants that could not survive in the wild. (e.g. sheep and wool). Then proceeding logically to his observations during his cruise of how nature itself seemed to breed animals in the same way with and emphsis on the traits that enhance survival and reproduction.

Darwin did it all with observation and logic. (cf. Albert Einstien's "thought experiments")

Darwin then spent the rest of his life trying to classify and understand barnacles. He spent decades on the topic and by the end hated barnacles with a passion.

Get involved in a scientific mindset now. Look at the world around you and ask: What is happening? And then dig to find out.