jefflebowski
09.12.11 | I've only just realized how awesome the national are generally |
parawhorez
09.12.11 | ^same here. I love High Violet. and 7 is sweet too. as for Calculus, it's probably one of the worst areas of math. |
Samshine
09.12.11 | agreed. |
psykonaut
09.12.11 | i took business calculus last year, but i transferred to a science major so now i have to retake calculus as ordinary calculus even though it's the same fucking thing that i did in business calculus FUCK
yeah i feel you bro |
ZilbelPing
09.12.11 | I'm taking pre-cal right now. Seems okay..... |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | It gets worse dude, especially if you're doing the further maths side of things, ie. tonnes and tonnes
of it |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | not to put you off or anything though :) |
ZilbelPing
09.12.11 | I'll let it be. Math is one of my strong subjects despite me hating it. I usually do good in math. Plus my teacher is badass and he doesn't assign much work. |
someguest
09.12.11 | nobody made you take calculus
quit whining |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | it's one of those things I've gotta take to do the course I wanna do. Doesn't mean I don't hate it though |
ZilbelPing
09.12.11 | ^ unless he's in high school taking calculus AP. |
ZilbelPing
09.12.11 | Oh nevermind. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | haha sorry man, stole your thunder a bit there |
someguest
09.12.11 | "it's one of those things I've gotta take to do the course I wanna do."
exactly, you chose to do it. stop whining. |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | quit bitching, I wish I still got to take calculus - it'd without a doubt be the easiest class for me this semester |
SpiralBorn
09.12.11 | It's really not that hard I got an A- for my calc paper last semester and that was going to the exam on two hours of sleep after getting evacuated till 5 30 cause there was an earthquake |
Hyperion1001
09.12.11 | Lol i'm in math 104 (english major, don't hate) and we're doing factor trees.
I was in high school calculus last year. College is fun. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | woah, sorry guys, didn't mean to come off like a little bitch or anything |
someguest
09.12.11 | GODDAMNIT GUYS fucked this girl missionary without a condom and she got pregnant
life is unfair |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | you did. but apology accepted.
integrals are fun man just believe me |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | It probably doesn't help that I have my dad lecturing me it for half of my maths classes.... |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | .....your dad's a math professor and you're not good at calculus.
you realize you're like half a misstep away from him just disowning you, right?
|
SowingSeason
09.12.11 | calc doesn't get hard until calc 4 |
lyon1535
09.12.11 | Calculus is awesome! |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | (says the business calc student stoked on just learning what a derivative is) |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | I'm not that bad at it, I just don't enjoy it all that much. If I was terrible at calculus, I wouldnt've taken further maths |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | if you can't integrate e to the x-squared then you should just give up life |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | well, quite! |
crazyblinddude
09.12.11 | Lol calc isn't hard at all. The "hardest" parts about it are the few things in it that aren't calc. Even multi-variable is hardly a jump up from single variable. |
pmmets07
09.12.11 | calculus last year was pure misery |
iFghtffyrdmns
09.12.11 | k i'm done harassing now. good luck in calc kid, you'll do alright. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | haha, thanks dude. I shouldn't be complaining really, I should be thankful I'm lucky enough to have a good education, etc. etc. |
Aids
09.12.11 | cool list, lots of stuff ive not heard. but BLASPHEMY calculus is majestic and wonderful, methinks it is YOU who sucks.
fuck I love calculus. all math actually (except geometry, fuck that shit. probability is kind of meh as well) |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | I always enjoyed Mechanics and Statistics more than pure maths to be honest. I guess I like the applied aspects of it |
Uranium
09.12.11 | I liked Calculus 1. I am scared to take Calculus 2 because I guess it's Calc 1 on roids. |
Scoot
09.12.11 | will never do math again |
dcha
09.12.11 | [calc doesn't get hard until calc 4]
Anybody who ever said this hasn't taken a calc course in their life. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | ^ I second this |
crazyblinddude
09.12.11 | If you have someone who's good at teaching it and is on track it can be fairly simple. I'm an engineering major though lol.
Physics I think is the coolest applied mathematics. |
Aids
09.12.11 | it's funny i love the most abstract areas of math. i wish i liked the more applied stuff because then I wouldn't feel so retarded about being a math major but as it stands now, I'm on a hiatus from school until I either a) find something cool that I can do with abstract mathematics for a living or b) find something I can get a degree in that won't be a gigantic waste of time/money
/first-world problems |
Uranium
09.12.11 | i was driving my car the other day and then i made a physics problem out of it. was all, me gusta. |
whywontyoudie
09.12.11 | i hate math so much, but i love chemistry. makes no sense to me. |
crazyblinddude
09.12.11 | Yeah, I can see how getting a math major would be really interesting, but the jobs for it seem kinda hard to come by. Most people I know who did that just eventually became teachers. |
fulgrim
09.12.11 | lol integration, just stick it into Wolfram-Alpha, problem solved. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | Man, physics is awesome, I'll probably end up specializing in that once I get maths over with :) |
Aids
09.12.11 | my options are basically either get my ph.D and teach (which would be awesome i just don't know if i have 10+ more hyears of school in me) or be a fucking actuary (always the #1 recommended career on those bullshit tests they make you take in high school. lots of money but fuck that id kill myself first) |
wabbit
09.12.11 | People who go to university with the mindset that "this will ensure I get lots of money/ a good career" are the most evil cunts on the planet and are responsible for every problem we have. |
klap
09.12.11 | wanting to be successful is a terrible idea you're right rabbit |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | it'd almost be worth having a ph.D just for the bragging rights though ;) But yeah, a career in risk assessment isn't the most thrilling thing I can think of |
wabbit
09.12.11 | It's the monetization of thinking. |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | But what's wrong with wanting to secure a comfortable, financially secure life for yourself and potentially a family after leaving university? |
Uranium
09.12.11 | I took the job placement in highschool and my job feedback came back that my best career was a model. Pretty irrelevant since looks are like 99% of modeling. |
Restrikted
09.12.11 | Geometry as of now is easy |
wabbit
09.12.11 | "But what's wrong with wanting to secure a comfortable, financially secure life for yourself and potentially a family" nothing
but that's not the point secondary academic (the US really fucks with this because pretty much everywhere else in the world university is academic and college is applied, going to college to get a job is why you go to college). University is supposed to be about learning and self improvement so if you really like abstract mathematics then you should take that not what 20 year old you thinks will guarantee the greatest amount of monetary wealth when you are 45. |
Aids
09.12.11 | "People who go to university with the mindset that "this will ensure I get lots of money/ a good career" are the most evil cunts on the planet and are responsible for every problem we have."
was that aimed at me? cause if it was, dude I'm in Africa right now doing volunteer work for a year you can stfu about "the most evil cunts on the planet." I just want to be able to support my family in their old age and be able to travel/volunteer every once in a while. |
Satellite
09.12.11 | nice to hear you made it to kenya okay aids. how was amsterdam? |
jefflebowski
09.12.11 | ""But what's wrong with wanting to secure a comfortable, financially secure life for yourself and
potentially a family" nothing
but that's not the point secondary academic (the US really fucks with this because pretty much
everywhere else in the world university is academic and college is applied, going to college to get
a
job is why you go to college). University is supposed to be about learning and self improvement so
if
you really like abstract mathematics then you should take that not what 20 year old you thinks will
guarantee the greatest amount of monetary wealth when you are 45."
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fair enough, that makes much more sense to me |
Aids
09.12.11 | "how was amsterdam?"
stoned |
Aids
09.12.11 | and btw rabbit im not some money grubbing asswipe or else i wouldnt be a math major in the first place. id get a degree in retard business math and be working on my second million dollars by my late twenties but that's not for me. what you love in life >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> money. I'd scrape by as a musician if I had any songwriting abilities (I'm working on it) |
Recspecs
09.12.11 | Pre-calculus and statistics wasn't too bad, but calculus is a cold-hearted bitch |
Aids
09.12.11 | dude just bring the exponent down and lower it by one. boom you can now ace your first year calc exam. |
iswimfast
09.12.11 | I'm with Sowing here. Calculus isn't bad til you start integrating ridiculous things. Well, that and the whole series shit in Calc 2. |
Calculate
09.12.11 | calculus is pretty easy if you try, strangely. |
FigNewtns
09.13.11 | calc is so easy, applied math is the hard shit |
Uranium
09.13.11 | look how many people took calculus and now think they're geniuses |
