Isn't Calculus just about the greatest thing ever?

**Boomsars** · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 1273 Location: Arkansas

I'm sorry, but Chem > Calculus.

It doesn't help that I have the worst teacher ever for Calculus.

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**stryker** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:53 am Post subject:

I was going to comment on how amazing calculus is also. And then I remembered that I have a prelim in my Differential Equations course tomorrow covering eigenvalues/boundary-value-problems, oscillating systems, power-series solutions to ODE's, and Fourier series solutions to ODE's.

Yeah. Looks like I'm not going to get any sleep tonight

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**jman00555** · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 139 Location: playing rock band

All you juniors taking AP Calc suck. My school system wont let you take any calculus classes until you are a senior, so if you are on the highest math track you have to take AP StAT (which i did) or waste a year of your life taking advanced algebra and trig your sophmore year and then pre calc your junior year (actually they started a new math for the current freshmen and lower for the whole state of GA and the whole upper math takes APSTAT sophmore year) I'm sitting here bored out of my mind in Pre calc. (I sat there listening to my iPod for a whole 2 weeks playing calc games, did no homework, came in one day and found out there was a test, and got a perfect score never having seen the material before) The GA curriculum sucks.

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**FBMrider86** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:28 am Post subject:

I took Calc AB my junior year and hated it with a fiery passion. I don't consider myself an idiot with math, but I guess it's because I can't see a direct use for it, my mind just says "you don't need to remember that!". I'm actually taking Calc in my freshmen year in college and it's nice to know I've experienced just about everything he's covered...problem is, he can't teach and his tests never match what he has taught you. That's actually been the case for both of my Calc classes. Oh, and the discussion on AP Stats...it's really not bad. I had an awesome teacher, didn't pay attention the least bit, and still got a B.

And to the OP...WHEN THE HELL WILL I USE A DERIVATIVE IRL???
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**Furiouslyfapping** · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 417 Location: Camas, WA

Well, I'm in Calculus 1 at college right now. We had a test on integrals just today, but we cover just 2 more sections before the final in a couple weeks.

I don't know if you could say I love Calculus, but I do dislike it less than the rest of my classes. I'm a pretty logical person, so I've always been good at math and I tend to stick with my strengths.
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**SDoner8790** · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:02 am Post subject:

Also, everybody complains about how bad their math teachers all have been. I hate that. Ok, maybe there are some bad teachers, but saying you haven't had a good math teacher since 3rd grade is just wrong. Most people who complain about their math teacher just aren't very good at math. They just use it as an excuse to why they are doing bad in the class. I've seen it too many times.
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**Natorade** · Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 861 Location: MidCal

Hell yeah, math FTW. But I'm curious as to how so many of you guys are juniors in BC though. That's not even possible in my school. The advanced juniors at my school are in AB (which is how I am). Did you guys get to skip Pre-Calc or something? Cuz I know that a private high school in my area lets kids do that, which I wish I could've done.

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**hydrapower** · Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 1708 Location: Rochester, MN

All I have to say is good luck to all you guys who are majoring in math. I was in the exact same position many years ago where I thought math was great and it came super-easy to me and being a math major seemed like the best fit. Problem 1 though was everyone asking "so, what are you going to do with a math degree?" (hint: this is a giant red flag. you can really only teach math or do research with a math degree) Problem 2 was that I got all the way up to Calc III without any problems and then after that it became an impenetrable clusterfuck of theory that no longer made any sense. It wasn't like solving a big elaborate problem with a set of rules, it was just extremely abstract and I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I ended up withdrawing from school!

Now 8 years later I'm back in school studying accounting which I have discovered I like much better. It follows logic and rules (literally, they're called GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles) and you get to use actual NUMBERS again zomg. Plus accountants make lots of money and are always in demand.

All I'm saying is good luck with the math major it seems fun and easy for a while but watch out for that brick wall.
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