Virgo
10-02-2012, 04:18 AM
I have to learn very high level mathematics for my major. We're talking Beautiful Mind, Dexter's Laboratory, Star Trek math.
In high school I was put in honors algebra in freshman year, sucked at it, the teacher liked me and I did a lot of extra work even over spring break so I got to stay in honors and go into honors geometry sophomore year (there was one ultra higher level honors math class one class above me, it was AP not IB). I did good, not great, but good. In my high school my teachers would always let me retake quizzes and even test. Junior year I had honors Algebra II, for the first few weeks it was brutal. But again, they let us retake it. For once I had to form a study group. My grandma just so happened to be like, a top mathematician, like she worked with statistics or something, and she would help with my homework and stuff, just take it slow. All my other classes that year were a breeze, 100s, but in that class I had to work for my A's. Senior year I had honors precalculus, it was easy as can be. Never had to study. 100 every semester.
Then, life at a university. Calculus. Horrible. The university did everything it could to make things challenging. According to my calculus professor, calculus in high school messes you up and they are the ones who do horribly. Calculus isn't hard, the algebra you do to get the answer is hard. I'm in engineering, where we're joyfully going to have to use calculus in our everyday lives (well mostly calculus based physics), and writing it is the most important part. You really have to write your down as if it were printed in the book without leaving out any method etc.
Calculus was to hard for me and I needed to keep my GPA up so I put myself back a bit. Fell a bit behind the math is coming to me now.
In high school I was put in honors algebra in freshman year, sucked at it, the teacher liked me and I did a lot of extra work even over spring break so I got to stay in honors and go into honors geometry sophomore year (there was one ultra higher level honors math class one class above me, it was AP not IB). I did good, not great, but good. In my high school my teachers would always let me retake quizzes and even test. Junior year I had honors Algebra II, for the first few weeks it was brutal. But again, they let us retake it. For once I had to form a study group. My grandma just so happened to be like, a top mathematician, like she worked with statistics or something, and she would help with my homework and stuff, just take it slow. All my other classes that year were a breeze, 100s, but in that class I had to work for my A's. Senior year I had honors precalculus, it was easy as can be. Never had to study. 100 every semester.
Then, life at a university. Calculus. Horrible. The university did everything it could to make things challenging. According to my calculus professor, calculus in high school messes you up and they are the ones who do horribly. Calculus isn't hard, the algebra you do to get the answer is hard. I'm in engineering, where we're joyfully going to have to use calculus in our everyday lives (well mostly calculus based physics), and writing it is the most important part. You really have to write your down as if it were printed in the book without leaving out any method etc.
Calculus was to hard for me and I needed to keep my GPA up so I put myself back a bit. Fell a bit behind the math is coming to me now.
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