Thursday January 19, 2006
Things I wish someone had told me before I went to college:
You won't actually have to go to every single one of your classes, so it's okay to make a schedule with conflicts in it. Especially if missing one lecture per week for either physics or math means you can take a real class rather than "Calculus for Dummies, Dust Bunnies, and Supercooled Molasses"! Why are you still introducing the concept of an integral? So it's an integral, move on! Guess what, we can even do the few things with it you've mentioned. Like such fancy tricks as }e^x/(1+e^x). (For those of you that haven't had calc, you just call 1+e^x u, and then it goes straight into this nice neat little formula that my little cousins could probably handle from there.) It's frickin' January, and I swear by the end of this course we'll still be at Michna@February. Merph.
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You're a rather smart boy,
You're a rather smart boy, I'm sure you could have figured something out...like take a different class!!!!
You said it was silly to
You said it was silly to take Calc, but had no response or solution to the dilemma posed by the courses conflicting.
Okay, I'm gonna say it one
Okay, I'm gonna say it one more time just because I'm really really evil...I told you so! Poor baby, at least you only have 4 more months left until you can be done and start taking real math again. And you'll have an exceedingly strong (as in steel and concrete encased) foundation in Calc I, which I'm sure will be helpful later on. I'll think of you while I'm actually learning in Calc III...