Isn't Calculus just about the greatest thing ever?

**Metalteeth** · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 1131 Location: Columbus, OH

I greatly enjoy HS Calc. got to college....math and physics major...

People, once you get to college, at least for me, Math gets very not fun. Higher math is all proof based. I took Honors Linear Algebra...sounds easy, right? NOT AT ALL. Dropped the class in 2 weeks.

Now, just physics. But, the math you need for physics is just basic calc and differential equations.
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**rohrk21** · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1434

...I dropped from BC Calculus to AB today after a bad marking period and an awful, awful test on integrals on Monday. <_<
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**altairian** · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 593

I loved calc until I started getting in to 3 dimensional stuff. That stuff's just an annoying bitch. But hey enjoy it for as long as you can, maybe you'll end up liking 3d and beyond, but for me I'd rather keep as far as possible from overly complex bullshit and especially fuck theory.

Basically what Metalteeth said :P
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**Deak2112** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

I think Calculus is pretty interesting and fun but I completely lost interest when I got to the OP's level. It just got to damn long. I think Trig was a little harder but Calc. is simpler but there is just to many steps to go through. i got a 4 on my Calc. BC AP test so I understand it pretty well but i hated every single step along the way.

EDIT: I even was supposed to take Calc. and Analytic Geometry II as a college class but I pulled away from that because I am done with math to that degree. I love what I have learned but I have no desire to learn more.
It was integrals that I started losing interest.
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**SDoner8790** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

I love calc. I love math. It makes sense. No bullshit. You can either do it, or you can't. And I happen to be able to. I took college calculus last year as a senior in high school. Now I'm taking Calc 1 in college which is actually a step back for me. So I got an easy 4 credit A right there. Calc 2 will all be review for me too. Math just comes natural to me. I'm a logical person, that's why I suck at interpreting literature and things like that.
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**MisterMcLov1n** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:53 am Post subject:

Every math class after 9th grade is basically solving really complex puzzles. I find algebra really fun because it makes sense and the really wtf equations are rewarding to finally solve, especially science equations.

And for geometry lovers:

Fourth dimension ftw!
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**GuitarGeek08** · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 3213

Math FTW!
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**NimbleTerror** · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 293

Math. Fucking. Wins. PERIOD.

I took AP Calc BC last year and got a 5, it was ridiculously easy. Now,
I'm a Freshman in college and in Multivariable Calculus (a.k.a Vector Calc) and it is amazing. I love the way that every single thing that you learn in math just piles on top of each other. Random trig identities can appear in the middle of an intense calculus problem, making it so much easier. It's beautiful. In fact, I love math so much that a week or so ago, I decided to double major in Math and Engineering.

tl;dr- Calculus wins at life.

And for 0wnd1zzl3d, I took AP Stats last year and got a 5 on the test. It is amazingly easy. The class has so little math, it's ridiculous, and the math that does exist is so simple. If you're good at bull shitting answers, you'll be fine.

**altairian** · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 593

**jesse0986** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:20 am Post subject:

I got up to Calc 2 before promptly saying "fuck this shit" and never taking another math class again.
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**Josseppe95** · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 1045 Location: Philadelphia

im in freshman algebra 1 right now, and that's already mindfucking me...math really isn't my thing. I'm more into the liberal arts, history and english and all that good stuff.
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**Maozilla** · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 630 Location: New Jersey

Calc BC as a junior. Interesting stuff, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it fun. I do have to admit though, Calc AB really helps in Physics 1 right now (see picture). My school is crazy, there are two freshmen taking Calc BC right now and three juniors and a sophomore taking Multivariable Calc (Calc 2). They're all my friends but man, they're absolute geniuses.