jefflebowski: Goddamnit, Calculus Sucks

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?
Sowing 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." ------------------------------- 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