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Ooohh did I screw up this time. The bane of all college students with "attendence optional" classes... I skipped a hell of a lot of calculus. To be specific, I skipped well over 90% of the sessions. As a result, I am failing, miserably. However, my professor is one of the rare breed that allows one to take their exam grade as their final grade if it is above their actual numerical average. Now I've got the interesting task of learning a full semester in roughly two weeks. I figure a chapter a night for the first week combined with reviewing for the second and I should be fine... yeah right. I already dicked around too much last semester, which resulted in me being on probation. I got a 1500 on the SAT, and my GPA after a semester of college was a 1.91... proof positive that high school and test scores don't mean crap once you're out. I've learned my lesson, now, so I should be fine in the future. Well, fine until I'm looking to intern at Lockheed or NASA and they decide to look back at my freshman year... =(
I should have stuck with graphic design instead of aerospace engineering... with AP scores, I would have had no math, no english, no science, and just art for four years. Now I've got five or six years just for the bachelor's, four semesters of calculus, two of physics, plus statics, fluid dynamics, orbital mechanics, mission planning, computer programming, material analysis, and god knows what else... damn.
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I came into college as a music education major. After a year and a half, I realized that I sucked at playing the trumpet. I'm now a computer science major. I have calculus to look forward to next year. I took it my senior year and got a C for the first semester and a nice F+ for the second semester. I'M GOING TO DIE IN CALCULUS! AUGH!
"If we all took leaps of faith like we take calculus, we'd be a bloody mass at the bottom of some cliff." -- the slogan for the 2nd period calculus class my senior year.
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Ryan, I know exactly what you mean. I won't go into all the gruesome details (as they aren't that interesting), but getting to class isn't exactly a skill of mine.
Still...results count for something too. I wouldn't worry too much about it ruining your future plans.
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There's only one thing worse than calculus: partial differential equations. They are the tool of the devil. If you think calculus and algebra are hard, then my advice would be to run as soon as you hear the words "Fourier Series", or "Laplace Equation".
After doing four calculus courses, I do have one word of advice, do the past exams if you can find them. They saved me this year when I wrote the exam for the last calculus course I had to take.
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