Calculus - how do you do it?

[RUFFLZ]

There's a fine line between saving your money and maintaining your sanity.

yep, listen to lambo sina.
you don't wanna fuck up your GPA just for the sake of 'persevering' through it with all odds against you as you're explaining.
W's aren't a big deal on your transcript - they don't help, but they also don't go against you. Shit I have two myself! There's all kinds of reasons for why people withdraw from classes.

just my .02 youngbasedbluhd

[freeride53]

I would stay in it and retain as much as you can, then if you take it again it will come much easier. Even if you fail.

Plan is to hang around for a bit, soak it in as much as possible, and take it next quarter - and enrolling in the popular student-tutoring workshops which the university has, from the beginning of the quarter.

There's a fine line between saving your money and maintaining your sanity.

Amen. My major GPA & transcript are pretty good, so I don't wanna risk fuckin it all up if I fail this quarter.

[Killacortes]

my mathlab is shit imo. That is what our course uses as our "book" and we do our homework through mymathlab too. I use khan to help me understand calc

I never even took my book out of packaging I should have never bought it. Mymathlab shows you how to work problems out. Step by step and sometimes with video. I understood it pretty well from that

[lambo]

Its your money your wasting

There's a fine line between saving your money and maintaining your sanity.

[TheTacoMan]

I would stay in it and retain as much as you can, then if you take it again it will come much easier. Even if you fail.

[freeride53]

Its your money your wasting

I don't think it's a waste of money. I took more classes than normal last quarter, so I'm right on it when it comes to the year's unit projections.

Also like I said before, with the bad situation I'm in, it's pretty much a 50/50 death if I don't do as well on the second midterm.

To make matters worse, the second midterm is on the same day that's the deadline for dropping without receiving an "F", should I not do as well then.

It's the risk that I am trying to assess.

[Shangsta]

So today, I was looking into the class schedueles for next quarter.
It looks like this class will be offered again, but with a WAY better prof - who I've actually had before :D
AND..it won't be at 8am like this quarter :D

So right now, I'm leaning towards withdrawing, and enjoying the fuck out of the rest of the quarter, focusing on my econ/business classes.

The main reason behind this thinking is this:
-My major GPA which is pretty good atm will be fucked, even if I pass the class this time.
-The second and only other midterm for this class will be given on the SAME day which is also the deadline for dropping the class without an F.

What do you guys think? It's sooo tempting to withdraw rn, especially since my other classes' grades are super peezy.

Its your money your wasting

[xAZxE30x]

yeah, the problem is the assigned problems usually lull you into a false sense of security, then they spring some next-level shit on you for the exam.

Hahaha that's always how it is!!

I'm taking my tests for the NMLS exam and this is exactly what they do. Practice questions were easy and worded simple and the test questions are wayyy harder

[bataangpinoy]

never worth it. persevere.

[freeride53]

So today, I was looking into the class schedueles for next quarter.
It looks like this class will be offered again, but with a WAY better prof - who I've actually had before :D
AND..it won't be at 8am like this quarter :D

So right now, I'm leaning towards withdrawing, and enjoying the fuck out of the rest of the quarter, focusing on my econ/business classes.

The main reason behind this thinking is this:
-My major GPA which is pretty good atm will be fucked, even if I pass the class this time.
-The second and only other midterm for this class will be given on the SAME day which is also the deadline for dropping the class without an F.

What do you guys think? It's sooo tempting to withdraw rn, especially since my other classes' grades are super peezy.

[Shangsta]

Also mymathlab helped alot but it was like a hundred bucks or so.

my mathlab is shit imo. That is what our course uses as our "book" and we do our homework through mymathlab too. I use khan to help me understand calc

[bataangpinoy]

Don't think about the answer, so much as the HOW you arrived there.

bingo. being able to study with a focused partner also helps me out, i retain info better if i have to explain it a million times

[Sea Aych]

Kahn Academy (like most people have posted ) pulled me through calc I II and III and i'm not the strongest naturally with non-applied math (ironic for an engineering major...)

Also did a shitton of textbook problems. Like, do all of them.

[Gregs///M]

Yes, Khan academy has some good stuff. They explain it well. PatrickJMT (http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT) on youtube has a lot of good stuff but from what I remember its mostly I & II stuff.

Do you have to take differential equations? I loved that class.

+++1 for both these websites. Helped me get through all three calcs, Diff Eq's, and Lin Alg. Definitely helpful!

Also Youtube has MIT lectures and practice videos. Their website also has the same videos that are helpful. If you can solve MIT math problems, you can handle any teacher. Good luck!

[Todd Black 88]

How do you even study or sit down and do homework? When I get home, I'm just so over school work. I'm usually not lazy about other things, like working out or whatever. But I just never have motivation to do homework. I have college next semester and I feel like I am going to bent over.

You need to change that about yourself.

Get'r done.