9) When I was in college I took Calculus 1, and then Calculus 2, And then Calculus 3, and then Calculus 3. I hate Newton so much. (also Leibniz). The only class I ever failed and that was on a deliberately impossible final exam.
I did Analytic Geometry IP (on my own), then had a blast in Calculus. I even taught a bootleg course in Calculus. I found it to be a lot easier than Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis. The only math class I ever failed was Mathematical Statistics 2, and that was because I had knee surgery, and couldn't study doped up on pain killers, or couldn't study without the pain killers.
You are not alone. Calc 2 is a monster. On the other hand my youngest son tested out of Calc 1 and 2 right out of high school. His first class on his first day of college was Calc 3 and he passed it. I told him he was batshit crazy to try that but he did it. There is always someone smarter! A lot of people don't even have the guts to try.
I took Calculus 1 in one university and the professor dropped me out of the class because he didn't want to screw up my GI Benefits. I took it the next semester and passed it. Then I transferred to a different university and the program there required Calculus 2. I figured I better take calculus 1 again to refresh my memory, and failed it. Then next semester I took Calculus 1 and 2. I struggled in Calculus 1, and sailed through Calculus 2. Go figure.
I took five semesters of calc in college: Calc I, Calc I, Calc II, Calc II, and Calc III.
Like Mikey, my daughter tested out of several of them and proceeded to ruin the curve in her various math courses. I knew she was smart when she was growing up, but I always thought her siblings were smarter. Nope. She just let people think she was an air head...
One more Calc story. I told my son that at some point his Professor would say "right rectangular parallelepiped. His Prof was Asian woman who by all accounts was pretty cool but my son said he almost fell out of his seat when she said "light Lectanlulal pallarerepiped".
You all think calc is difficult, because nobody told you that you need a solid foundation in all of the preceding math. If you got a B in algebra, you really are missing 20% of the knowledge you need in trig. If you got a B in trig and algebra, you are probably missing a good portion of the skills you need to be successful in calculus. Math is just a succession of skills that need to be mastered before advancing. It is not that any single of of them is difficult (with adequate practice).
You are so right. My Algebra was pretty good. But my Trig was weak. We had a weak professor in college, and I passed. My first "pretest" in Calc 1 said I'd fail. One of the other students came over at my request and drew me a unit circle with all the trig functions on it. He was brilliant. With that help, I got an 89.4.... Not an A but dang close. Calc 2 in a summer session (NOT recommended), and really struggled through 3. A few of us met early and went over homework and that saved my butt. I worked as many as three part time jobs, was married and had 2 little ones. The other guys were 100% scholarship types that were wicked smart. They sure helped me get along.
#6 is a piss off for me. I don't know why it irritates me as much as it does, but I get so fucking sick and tired of fucktards that cannot figure out the difference between "sell" and "sale" if their lives depended on it. You see it quite often on Craigslist, people saying they have a car "for sell" or they "need to sale their car".
Now you know how I feel every. damned. time. I go looking for memes. If you're going to make something for public viewing, at least spell correctly and use proper grammar.
Go watch all of Hostel and you'll never want to go to the bars again... or to Bratislava. I read their tourist bureau about had a stroke over doing damage control after that movie came out.
She's bait, luring you to a back alley, whereby you will get knocked the fuck out, have your Kidney extracted, and if you're lucky, you'll be alive to complain about it, but not likely. Enjoy the view while it lasts
#8) Years ago I was a surveyor. Every job began by figuring out where North was. So I always gave directions, be it friend or foe, as North, East, South & West. Pissed off everybody. Lotta fun.
Amazing how many people have an internal compass that only works on asphalt. And don't know how to work a map. And don't pay attention to what they pass by or know how to take an alternate route.
They're awesome to hunt with, if you like long nights with a flashlight.
You must have heard about Snipe hunts, being so close to my state of Michigan. You take a urban kid, when you are in high school, and tell him you are going on a Snipe hunt. Then leave just a bit before dark. Go into the woods,that you are familiar with, give him a piss poor flashlight, and 3 of your friends and you walk him into the woods, and then leave. Of course, we never left the guy for more then around 10 minutes or so. Any longer than that, and we figured he would either get scared out of his mind, or he would try and find his way out on his own, and make it too hard to find him. #11, my uncle was a lifer in the Army, and his final duty station was at Ft.Riley, KS. They lived in Junction City, KS. To me, coming from a town called Hesperia, Michigan, with about 800 people in it, seeing his house, that was in a planned neighborhood that looked to me like that picture was the most crazy manner of living I ever saw. We visited during my senior year of high school, the Saturday after my twin brother and my last football game. The most memorable part of the trip to me was getting to see the place where one of the greatest presidents we have had is buried, The Eisenhower Presidential Center,in Abilene,Kansas. He is in a place called the Place of Meditation,the chapel on the grounds there. He is buried under a huge stone, I can't remember for sure, but I think it is granite, and the entire room is eerily silent. To stand there, and to know that beneath that stone slab lies the man who was pretty much responsible for the allies defeat of the most horrific,and most deadly attempt to take over the world, by an ism, the likes of which, we have not seen until recently, was heart filling, even to a very strong hearted, well settled and well raised 17 year old young man. I looked at the Wikipedia post about Ike, and I decided that I have to get either a biography about him, or get a kindle book biography on him. His life was just so interesting,and his vision for the future was pretty much spot on.
9) When I was in college I took Calculus 1, and then Calculus 2, And then Calculus 3, and then Calculus 3. I hate Newton so much. (also Leibniz). The only class I ever failed and that was on a deliberately impossible final exam.
ReplyDeleteYou must be smarter that I am. I passed Cal 1 and then proceeded to fail Cal 2 four times in four semesters under four different professors...
DeleteI did Analytic Geometry IP (on my own), then had a blast in Calculus. I even taught a bootleg course in Calculus. I found it to be a lot easier than Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis. The only math class I ever failed was Mathematical Statistics 2, and that was because I had knee surgery, and couldn't study doped up on pain killers, or couldn't study without the pain killers.
Deleteshows how bad i am with math---i didn't even know Calculus came in a 3 !
DeleteYou are not alone. Calc 2 is a monster. On the other hand my youngest son tested out of Calc 1 and 2 right out of high school. His first class on his first day of college was Calc 3 and he passed it. I told him he was batshit crazy to try that but he did it. There is always someone smarter! A lot of people don't even have the guts to try.
DeleteI took Calculus 1 in one university and the professor dropped me out of the class because he didn't want to screw up my GI Benefits. I took it the next semester and passed it. Then I transferred to a different university and the program there required Calculus 2. I figured I better take calculus 1 again to refresh my memory, and failed it. Then next semester I took Calculus 1 and 2. I struggled in Calculus 1, and sailed through Calculus 2. Go figure.
DeleteI took five semesters of calc in college: Calc I, Calc I, Calc II, Calc II, and Calc III.
DeleteLike Mikey, my daughter tested out of several of them and proceeded to ruin the curve in her various math courses. I knew she was smart when she was growing up, but I always thought her siblings were smarter. Nope. She just let people think she was an air head...
One more Calc story. I told my son that at some point his Professor would say "right rectangular parallelepiped. His Prof was Asian woman who by all accounts was pretty cool but my son said he almost fell out of his seat when she said "light Lectanlulal pallarerepiped".
DeleteYou all think calc is difficult, because nobody told you that you need a solid foundation in all of the preceding math. If you got a B in algebra, you really are missing 20% of the knowledge you need in trig. If you got a B in trig and algebra, you are probably missing a good portion of the skills you need to be successful in calculus. Math is just a succession of skills that need to be mastered before advancing. It is not that any single of of them is difficult (with adequate practice).
DeleteYou are so right. My Algebra was pretty good. But my Trig was weak. We had a weak professor in college, and I passed. My first "pretest" in Calc 1 said I'd fail. One of the other students came over at my request and drew me a unit circle with all the trig functions on it. He was brilliant. With that help, I got an 89.4.... Not an A but dang close. Calc 2 in a summer session (NOT recommended), and really struggled through 3. A few of us met early and went over homework and that saved my butt. I worked as many as three part time jobs, was married and had 2 little ones. The other guys were 100% scholarship types that were wicked smart. They sure helped me get along.
DeleteBoy number 18 is 100% true!
ReplyDelete#6 is a piss off for me.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why it irritates me as much as it does, but I get so fucking sick and tired of fucktards that cannot figure out the difference between "sell" and "sale" if their lives depended on it.
You see it quite often on Craigslist, people saying they have a car "for sell" or they "need to sale their car".
Tim in AK
Now you know how I feel every. damned. time. I go looking for memes. If you're going to make something for public viewing, at least spell correctly and use proper grammar.
DeleteOr the difference between lose and loose.
DeleteI have a sell phone for cell...
DeleteAw, I go this shear sailor phone I wawna sail. It don't git no good conception...Only 2 bars, an they's closed on account of Covid...
DeleteThe one that gets me is "axed" for "asked". Seems the Amish are among the most afflicted.
Delete#13 ?
ReplyDeleteforeign country
Deletecheap hooker
alley
kidney taken for sell
The nice ass lets you be led into a sketchy place..... where you'll lose your kidney.
DeleteThere's a similar meme showing the 2 walking to a cabin in the woods that's captioned "Don't do it! This is how horror movies begin!"
Rob, never pick up a girl in a bar, stick to churches. You're not equipped to protect yourself.
DeleteIdahoHunter
There's a welcoming committee in her bedroom. Your kidneys, liver, eyes and heart are worth money on the black market.
DeleteGo watch all of Hostel and you'll never want to go to the bars again... or to Bratislava. I read their tourist bureau about had a stroke over doing damage control after that movie came out.
DeleteShe's bait, luring you to a back alley, whereby you will get knocked the fuck out, have your Kidney extracted, and if you're lucky, you'll be alive to complain about it, but not likely.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the view while it lasts
You’re knocked out and a kidney is removed.,,
ReplyDelete#8) Years ago I was a surveyor. Every job began by figuring out where North was. So I always gave directions, be it friend or foe, as North, East, South & West. Pissed off everybody. Lotta fun.
ReplyDeleteAmazing how many people have an internal compass that only works on asphalt. And don't know how to work a map. And don't pay attention to what they pass by or know how to take an alternate route.
DeleteThey're awesome to hunt with, if you like long nights with a flashlight.
You must have heard about Snipe hunts, being so close to my state of Michigan. You take a urban kid, when you are in high school, and tell him you are going on a Snipe hunt. Then leave just a bit before dark. Go into the woods,that you are familiar with, give him a piss poor flashlight, and 3 of your friends and you walk him into the woods, and then leave.
DeleteOf course, we never left the guy for more then around 10 minutes or so. Any longer than that, and we figured he would either get scared out of his mind, or he would try and find his way out on his own, and make it too hard to find him.
#11, my uncle was a lifer in the Army, and his final duty station was at Ft.Riley, KS. They lived in Junction City, KS. To me, coming from a town called Hesperia, Michigan, with about 800 people in it, seeing his house, that was in a planned neighborhood that looked to me like that picture was the most crazy manner of living I ever saw.
We visited during my senior year of high school, the Saturday after my twin brother and my last football game. The most memorable part of the trip to me was getting to see the place where one of the greatest presidents we have had is buried, The Eisenhower Presidential Center,in Abilene,Kansas.
He is in a place called the Place of Meditation,the chapel on the grounds there. He is buried under a huge stone, I can't remember for sure, but I think it is granite, and the entire room is eerily silent. To stand there, and to know that beneath that stone slab lies the man who was pretty much responsible for the allies defeat of the most horrific,and most deadly attempt to take over the world, by an ism, the likes of which, we have not seen until recently, was heart filling, even to a very strong hearted, well settled and well raised 17 year old young man. I looked at the Wikipedia post about Ike, and I decided that I have to get either a biography about him, or get a kindle book biography on him. His life was just so interesting,and his vision for the future was pretty much spot on.
pigpen51
Everybody who bragged about a bunch of calculus classes: Here is a picture of me impressed.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that? You don't see anything? Go back to class.
Careful, SgtBob.
DeleteThe math geeks might stuff you in your locker...
17 ===== wow so fresh it cut like cheese. Wtf
ReplyDeleteMadMarlin