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'I'd like to kill the guy who invented this'
As Teen Talk Barbie informed us, "Math is hard." And in the words of Jimmy Buffett, "Math sucks."
My semester is looking distressingly math- and logic- and computer-science-heavy. I was all ready to put all of my energy into Java Programming as my most insanely difficult hardest class when my Choice and Learning GSI informed us that the myths about his class requiring math knowledge were false.
"You don't need to know calculus!" he laughed, "All it requires is a bit of advanced algebra!"
Alge-who, now?
I have also been informed by an SI alum that you need to know how to take a derivative or at least know what a derivative is and why on earth or where on earth one would want to take one.
Derivi-whaaaa?
So yes, I am planning on failing out of SI. Goodbye, cruel school.
srah - Saturday, 10 January 2004 - 12:20 PM
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Comments (7)
Annica - January 10, 2004 - 2:20 PM - ℓ
Yay for public class {java}! Yay for Al Gore-ithms! Yay for not understanding a thing!
I hated java. Every single instance of it. I always forgot to initiate my variables, and nothing ever worked. God, I hope I'll never have to do any actual programming...
I hope you'll do better. I'll keep my fingers crossed for that smartsy brain of yours. :-)
srah - January 10, 2004 - 3:32 PM - ℓ
I haven't taken any math since 1998... and then it was "Senior Advanced Math", which might as well have been called "So, You Need a Math Credit But Suck".
Also... I'm not going to go SIT IN on a math class! I'm disgusted enough that I have to do mathy stuff in my required classes... I'm not foisting any more on myself! I'll just go to office hours and cry when I don't understand things.
yer501teammate - January 11, 2004 - 2:33 PM - ℓ
it's not really as bad as all that, honestly.. it more took just repetitive plugging away at the problems (and clarification of what their terms actually meant in english vs "economics-ese") than any deep understanding or use of calculus. Believe me -- I took 3 terms of calc way back when, and still couldn't find a derivative in a wet paper bag.
Oh, come on now. It can't be that bad! How long has it been since you took calculus in college?
Also, an idea. Calculus courses usually run an algebra review in their first class or two. Why don't you skippy on over to the Math department and ask permission to sit in on the first couple of session of a Calculus class?