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Finals rage thread
>just took calc 2 final
>trying to prove convergence/divergence of a series
>try limit comparison test
>limit comes out to be 2/3
>my stupid fucking brain thought that the series converged if the limit > 1 instead of 0
> 2/3 < 1 so I'm like wtf it failed
>try regular comparison test
>obviously doesn't work
>running out of time, just write some shit about the tests failing and that that series diverges, even though it makes literally no sense
>I realize my mistake literally as I am walking out the door
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEEEEE
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Git gud, scrub.
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>>7727118
I am literally suicidal right now, please don't push me over the edge.
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Just got out of my calc III final

>optimization problem that was hard as fucking nails and math got ugly so gave up even though I was doing it right

>Used Stoke's theorem to find flux on a problem because I'm wee Todd Did

>Got two different answers on the other problem when I was just supposed to verify the answer

fug

So much for getting a B in calc III. You would never know I took calc III at another uni and got an A in it.

Man, fuck University of Colorado's applied math department.
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>>7727127
I'm hoping for a fucking B in calc II, I have a feeling that final really fucked with me. There was a pretty big curve on the last midterm because people couldn't wrap their heads around series, so I'm hoping the average ability on that hasn't improved much so I can benefit from a curve.
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>got out of quantum mechanics final
>one question was literally to write down what the coulomb and exchange operators are
fucking hell, what's the point of even having shit like that on the exam?
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>>7727105

>taking my precalc test

1/4x =20x

i got an imaginary number, because i square rooted the negative -16, god damn it.

i think the answer was 1/20 because it fits both sides.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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>>7727127
i walked into the final of my calc 3 class with a 91%. As im taking the final I shit the bed on the line integrals and flux problems. The final is 200 points. im pretty sure im gonna end up getting a C in he class lmao.
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>>7727105
> Top 10 grade in both physical electronics and probability and statistics
> physical electronics final is early as fuck during rush hour
> making good time, car stalls out in front of me
> suddenly late for final, rushing to get to the room on time
> forget to bring textbook, final is open book because the problems require table lookups from the book
> tank the fuck out of the final, can only do about half of the questions without the book.
> probability and stats final is 15 minutes afterwards
> still in full blown panic mode, tank probability and stats final, only answering 1 out of 3 questions completely

feels bad man
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>>7727105
Chill, anon. You probably got most of the credit.
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>>7728110
Wot
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>have a 89.25% in a class
>fuck up test
>there's no way I got higher than a C on it
>tfw no A
So close.
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>>7728110
>1=80x^2
>1/80=x^2
>sqrt(1/80)=x
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>>7727105
What a nigger. I took my calc 2 final and it was a breeze.
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>>7727105
>WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME
You need to do more prep in simulated test conditions OP.

- Pomodoros

- Time limited

- Also helps to get time of day, room, noise levels similar.
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for real OP calc 2 is easy if you work

pic related my grade graph for calc 2

blue line is me
gray line class average

in other news I fucked up organic chem this semester though might get a C if I'm lucky
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>expected Bs across the board
>get As and A-'s

I hope I'm basically guaranteed acceptance into an REU this summer.
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>>7728247
how do you do it

do you study every day, from the beginning of the semester?
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>>7727105
>take final
>every exam/ quiz the professor basically uses the study guide
>don't put like three questions on the final
>needed a 100 to get an A

I FUCKING HATE GEN EDS.
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>>7728261
I'm glad that I'm done with them.
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>>7728250
Every day, yes, but not all of each day. Need time to do other shit like lift or play vidya or I'd go crazy. I'd say I put in about 5 hours of work each day, attending lectures not included.
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>tfw got A's in Calc 1 - 3, Diffey Cue, and linear algebra
>C+ in Organic Chem
>Bout to get a C in Signals and Systems
Just fuck my GPA up.
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>>7728293
How do you manage that with work?
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>>7728304
>Diffey Cue
you deserve it desu
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>>7727105
>mfw we cover this in first semester engineering in ireland
>americans don't have it until calc 2

why is america so pathetic?
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>>7728349
you realize that calc 2 is normally taught first semester right? OP is probably a freshman, he's using /sci as his personal blog after all
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>>7728349
Name a single Irish invention we frequently use today (or ever).
STEM related please.
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>>7728354
American education is a joke compared to western europe
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>>7728357
>4 million people vs 320 million people
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>>7728359
At least the muslims aren't invading our country. We have trump to thank for that.
>shitposting deserves a shitpost response
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>>7728359
That's why you have the best schools and engineers in the world...

Oh wait
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>Working with Relativistic energy.
>Forgot the minus 1 in the gamma term
>Ended up with two additional mass terms because of this.
I realized as soon as I handed it in. I even had that shit written down.
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>>7728360
what's your point? That Ireland has 80 times more incest?
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>>7728357
Wife beating, Guinness, and poverty
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>>7728357
The dole
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>>7728362
>muh best schools
yeah ok pal, enjoy your student debt. America is good for the top 5% and shit for everyone else. Keep telling yourself you live in a great country though, everyone laughs at your blind patriotism and ignorance. The average education level of any western european country is vastly superior to shitty 'Murica. So unless you're attending Harvard or Stanford or something, shut the fuck up.

>>7728361
I don't think you know your geography, Ireland isn't part of Britain. Wouldn't expect any more from an American though.

>>7728367
nah, grow up lad
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>>7728369
>>7728373
>mfw ireland is legitimately a top 5 country to live in globally
>americans are so poorly educated that they don't know this
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>Modern physics final
>I have a certain wave function for a infinite potential well.
>That function can be expanded periodically.
>ok, I only have to use fourier series.
>I didn't remember fourier series equations.
>fuck this
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>>7728241
You're in a class with an average of 81%?
Are there like, 7 people in it?
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>>7727105
>taking calc 3 final
>every question was either so easy anyone with half a brain would get it or I was too stupid to figure it out
>forget how to find critical points
>no A for me
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>tfw bombed QM final

It's more of an existential defeat than rage, my friends.
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>>7728379
Not sure where you're looking, but the only source I found with Ireland in the top 5 put China at number 1.
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>>7728400
it's consistently in the top 5 or just outside, america is nowhere near. Loads of jobs too due to low corporation tax and an english speaking workforce. I'm going to have a great job straight out of college with 0 student debt. You mad murifags?
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>>7728396
>calc 3
>can't find critical points
you serious m8?
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>>7728377
>all this asshurt

I hate to brake it to you potatoes paddy the second the US closes tax loopholes is the second your country goes to shit.
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>>7727105
>average on chem 1A final is 61
>gets 91 uncurved
Feelsgoodman
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>>7728411
I know the process, I just had some shitty system to solve and ran out of time. I'm still a retard tho ;_;
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>>7727105
>undergrad qchem
>perturbation question with a divergent integral

>analysis
>construct an inner product space with an incomplete orthonormal system {f_n} such that no nonzero element f is orthogonal to every f_n
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>>7727105
>grad school
>fucked up big
>worse thing that happens is I get a B in the class.
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>>7727127
I'm a pure math major at CUB and the first half of the undergraduate program looks like a complete joke. I came in with my first two years of math credits done so I didn't have to go through it, thankfully. Pure math gets better. Not sure about applied math.
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>>7728423
people like you are a cancer to the world.

hopefully you enjoy that crippling debt.
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>>7728461
>class average in chem 2 was a 55
>some kid actually got a 6 on the final
>me and a few others brought up the average with our 90s and above
You degenerate fucks should be thanking us for making the class look good. It's not my fault you rely on a curve
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This is me after every math test.
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>>7728461
>being this mad
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>Grad student
>Had a homework assignment with no due date
>Still haven't done it even though the term ended last week
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>>7728450
>pure math gets better
>tfw you keep hearing that but you take Abstract Algebra I and have to deal with tedious shit like groups, rings, fields, Lagrange's Theorem, cyclic groups, quotient groups, etc.

Fucking Algebraists are magicians.

I miss the good old days of Calculus.
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Hope this is a bait thread. Calculus is a fucking joke, what are you guys mechanical engineering majors?

Unless you are math illiterate or a retard you should be able to ace any calc class if you practice one or two hours a day. If youre the kind of moron who struggles with basic algebra and gets confused by word problems just switch to business.
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>>7728491
Hey man, Algebra is awesome. After a semester of Algebra and Analysis, I do not miss calculus.
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>>7728461
>Berkeley Engineer
>Cancer
>Crippling debt
>Implying I don't get my entire schooling paid off by financial aid
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>>7728241
CEGEP?
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I walked out of my analysis exam confusing uniform continuity at any number c with uniform continuity in a given interval. Lost my A+ which I was consistently on the verge of losing. Fuck, I shouldn't have only studied the day before every test and the exam.
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>>7728461
Because he naturally gets above 90 on tests when other people can't? The hell is wrong with you?
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>Have 2 finals tomorrow
>Just had 3 beers, and can't prepare.
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>>7728503
>tfw do literally 0 hours of study a day and then cram at the last second for homework, quizzes and exams
Help how do I study
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>200 word in class essay on explaining the significance of the quadratic formula
>have three hours
>can only get 50 words done
fml
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>>7728529
Funny, my wife's son kindly brought me a similar assignment for me to do for him in my shed. Normally the wifey makes me knock on his door and ask him if he has any homework for me to do, assuming he's not done with the new PlayStation I recently bought him. Must have been a tough assignment.
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>physiology exam last tuesday
>neurobiology exam thursday
>only had one day to study for it
>last exam on the 22nd
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>>7728529
a picture is worth a thousand words
>pic related
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I made 125/200 on a final and ended up getting a B because of it. Honestly, with the exception of one question I felt like I got everything right. Apparently a barely learned shit all semester.
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>>7728506
I hope this is me when I transfer there. Are you a minority and poor?
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>>7728505
>Hey man, Algebra is awesome

It seems like it might be really interesting once you really get into it. However, at this point it seems like I'm learning really bizarre things and don't quite see why certain theorems are important or their motivation.

I definitely enjoy the simplicity of it, though.

Yet I miss how intuitive calculus was. I have the option to take either Abstract Algebra I next semester (this semester I took what was called "intro to modern algebra" but we used the same textbook that the Algebra I class uses) or Probability so we'll see where my leanings are after Intro to Analysis.
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>Get a 46 average on all my thermo tests
>have an 98 effort grade
>End up getting a C

FEelsgood :)
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1st final: 98 finished with 98
2nd: 94 on final finished with 96
3rd: cant remember but finished with 93
4th: no reply from prof.
5th: doing it tomorrow
6th: no idea
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Okay, I don't understand how classes in calc2 don't average 80% +

I wasn't stellar, but my grade was in the 80's plus. I knew a couple of people that walked into the final with 90% plus in the class.

The hardest part about calc 2 was probably the series, at least fo rme. Everything else was pretty easy if you invested a couple of hours a day to practice.
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Is it ok that I make one B pretty much every semester? I've pretty much made a 3.8 each term for the last 3 years. I'm worried about grad apps because I know there are people out there with 4.0's. I only achieved it once.
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>>7728572
At my uni one professor had 30/50 students get a D,F or withdraw. Not sure how she still has a job, but Calc II at some stem heavy schools is basically the most brutal weed out course you will take.
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>>7728566
o.k i checked the class and i got a 98 on final and finished with 98 on 4th
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>>7728575
Can confirm. Lost a lot of my buddies to Calc II. Barely made it myself with a C
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>>7728598
The worst part of that is I feel like Calc II shouldn't be a weed out course at all. Calc II is extremely important for many stem majors and if you want to do well later you actually need to learn something in calc I-III
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>>7728533
>In your shed
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>>7728573
3.8 is fine. i dont understand though. is that gpa to transfer from CC? to graduate? to apply from HS?
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>>7727105

> Be me
> Take calculus one (again)
> Take midterm exam
> Score 16/30
> Passing grade is 18/30
> Many as me
> Teacher is a big fat fat fat woman
> Teacher says "so all of you with score of 16 and 17 come on day $d for an integration"
> Go to integration
> Everyone of us get an exercise on what we messed at the exam
> Cute girl is messing up
> Teacher says "ok, it's okay, don't worry, it's christmas after all"
> Cute girl passes the midterm
> My turn
> Domain of a functions, compute limit and asymptotic function at four points
> I do such things
> Go to teacher
> No anon, you actually have to compute the asymptotic function

Now... Log(x^2 + 1) is asymptotic to what, when x -> +inf ?
Well, it's Log(x^2). So I write Log(x^2).


> "No anon, you have to write Log(x^2 * (1 + 1/x^2)))"
> "Anon, it's clear that you can't pass this midterm.
> "See you next time anon"

I now have to take the exam (AGAIN) in February.
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>>7728616
for grad schools it says so in the comment.
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>>7728616
To apply form bachelors to grad school.
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>>7728631
As annoying as it may sound, it's a good habit to write down everything, you'll make less idiotic mistakes later on
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>>7728653

Forcing someone to retake a whole test for such a thing is idiotic, though,
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>>7728575
true.

idk, i feel im gonna make it out of calc2. with a C myself even though i kept a b all semester. The prof. spent two days with polar and parametric equations and threw some high points qs on the final pertaining to those subjects which i didnt really comprehend.
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>tfw thermo exam tomorrow
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>>7728538
Eh, I solve it by completing the square and in-versing the operations.
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>>7728655
being an idiot and getting 16/30 in calc 1 is idiotic tho
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>mfw I have calc 2 next term
>reading this thread and am in full panic
What do I do?
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>>7728559
No. Just poor.
Note, my father is a disabled veteran (20% disabled) so my tuition is paid by the VA
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>>7728703
In the same situation. I'm terrified now. I only just realized all my mistakes in calc 1 after taking the final, too.
The future looks bleak..
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>>7728705
This is assuming I pass my final desu
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>>7728703
Chill out, practice problems, read ahead. You'll be fine.
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>>7728703
Practice all the time. Calc II is a calculation class.
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>tfw came out with straight A-'s this semester in my easy ass Forestry curriculum but switching majors to chemistry next semester and taking calc 2, organic, thermo and electromagnetism at the same time to catch up

Kill me desu
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>tfw shit at calc

Can someone help me out? How do I do this?
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>>7728763
Are you sure you're prepared for that? Each one of those classes (specifically thermo, orgo, and calc 2) are a TON of work on their own.
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>>7728783
[math]
\frac{y^2 - 1}{y} dy = -xe^{x^2} dx
[/math]
[math]
\int ydy - \int \frac{1}{y} dy = \int -xe^{x^2} dx
[/math]
I think you should be able to take it from there.
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Failed OChem II. I got like 20 on the final.
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Destroyed E&M final, electric power and machines final was too hard + shit prof, signal processing exam was so fucking easy. 2 more left..
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>solving complex roots in number theory/algebra final worth 50%
>mess up quadratic formula
>write down that 262 is a prime number
I got sick a week or so before this and had the worst finals I possibly could have..
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>>7727105
> Differential Equations final
> ezpz, aced it.
> everyone is bitching about how hard it was
> feelsgoodman

Too bad I'm wasting my life on an engineering degree
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>>7728885
Don't feel bad anon, I wrote (-1)^16=-1 this one time in high school
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>>7727124
TRIGGERED.

You're fucking dumb. Kill yourself.
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>>7728788
>thermo
>a ton of work
Maybe if you're fucking lazy and unused to a hefty workload.
It was a fucking bird course compared to my entire undergrad degree though.
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>>7729336

That was a bit uncalled for. Apologize.
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>>7728389
~35 idiots

>>7728507
yes

>>7728529
this is truly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of

you have to write essays about the virtues of equations in math class?

>>7728563
lmao how much does effort count in that class

most I've had is like 10% for participation in English

science classes usually give 3-4% for "lab behavior" or some other bs

>>7728703
practice

I did ~20 problems after each class and got (what felt like) an easy A
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Next semester classes that sound tough:

Linear Algebra

Waves and Modern Physics

Introduction to Biotechnology

which ones should I be worried about
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One exam to go, mechanics of materials 2. Should be pretty easy and then I get a nice break on a co-op term.
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>>7728609
It seems like calc II in america is much different in canada. Our calc 2 basically had l'hopitals rule and all integration solving methods. A lot of the students fail a course here called math 2. Because sequences and series.
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>>7729369
Oh, and polar and parametric equation and integration.
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>>7729369
im in Canada too and calculus 2 (I assume that's what you're talking about, integral calculus is an alternate name?) is easy as fuck if you just do a few exercices after each class

honestly I struggled more for mechanics because i was a lazy shithead

now an ACTUALLY difficult class, that would be Organic Chemistry... shudder
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>>7728491
I'm the person that you replied to, and I agree with the other anon who replied to this post. I hated group theory at first, but now it's pretty dandy.
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>>7727105
I fucked up on my calc III final and I'm honestly scared as fuck that I might have fucked my entire semester grade.
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>"guys this final is based on your semester long project, I am not looking for you to memorize details out of the lecture notes"
>question 2) What are the 6 different structures that comprise an FPGA? Describe their types and purposes


I got most of them, it was just, a big fuck you from the prof. I already earned 52 of the marks so I didn't even have to write the final to get a C.
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>>7729376
Could you post a problem from your first semester ochem course? Or better yet, a test probelm? My ochem experience was so easy I have decided that i didn't really take a traditional ochem class. Could you help me test my theory?
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>>7729490
OChem is literally not hard at all at the undergraduate level. Some people don't get that method of thinking I guess, but if you understand logic and how to apply trends OChem is easy as hell. The only people who do bad are those that try to memorize and make a notecard for every nucleophile they've seen. You OChem class was probably up to par, or at least adequate.
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>>7727105
>Calc 2
>Convergence/divergence of series

How is this possible? I mean in Germany you're starting with Topology (R^n) if you're taking a Calc 2 course. Here's an example what I'm talking about.

http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/analysis/lehre/skripten/skript.pdf

Analysis in Germany is Calculus in Murrica.
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>>7728705
>>7728703
I am a high school senior who took Calc 2 at a local college. It's a cakewalk until series and even then if you just put in some time (I didn't study at all) you'll be OK. I needed a 40% on my final to get a B so don't worry at all
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>>7729362
Mechanics of materials 2? Is that like machine design?
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>>7728533
>my wife's son
>not "my son"
top cuck
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>quantum chemistry exam
>prof tries to have us find the determinant of a 4x4 slater matrix, and solve for energy by hand, no calculators, among 10 other questions on a 2 hour exam

thx
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Wrote linear algebra this morning. Just have evolutionary biology left, then it's vidya and alcohol time.
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>>7729502
>The only people who do bad are those that try to memorize and make a notecard for every nucleophile they've seen.

guilty as charged

this is what I did and why I'll be getting a C at best
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>>7729620
Reminds me of one of my finals from back in the day. I got a 30. I got every question I did right. Just only was able to finish 30 percent of the exam. Fortunately still got a B in the class despite the weighty final.
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>be the only person in my class who passed the physics final
>prof lost my exam
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>final for interpersonal communication
>class cancelled due to campus closing for some reason
>get an A from doing nothing

>Differential Equations final
>just similar to the four previous test
>get a 98%

>English - Critical Thinking
>five paragraph self-evaluation essay
>get a 93%

>c++ programming
>presentation and a two question programming final
>do the presentation and finish programming two easy questions
>no grade yet
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>>7729369

Finished all my math courses now. Gonna take one more for a tech elective. Had no issues with any math courses, all A's.
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Just dropped a 100 on my calc I final.

Calc II can't be that much harder, can it?
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>>7729740

Pretty much the same until you hit series. Make sure you go to church during those times.
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>>7728220
BUT THAT'S WRONG, ANON.
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>Prepared myself for 6-7 weeks for my math exam, allday erryday
>pulled a B (2.3)
>Even when I would have studied for another 8 weeks I wouldn't have gotten this A.

Don't know how all of you are getting A's. Some questions are most likely not answerable. There were some questions just 1-2 out of 98 participants answered correctly. A lot of exams aren't mean for solid A's here.

Thus we got the phrase "Vier gewinnt" what's basically "D wins" (atleast passed).
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>>7727127
I posted this a few days ago:

>Calc III for scientists and engineers
>over the summer (bad idea)
>everything is n-tuple integrals and n-dimensional this and that, nothing grounded in reality
>no dropped quizzes/lowest exam
>no curve
>no mercy
>get to the end only by the fire in my heart
>class is basically empty at this point, >2/3 dropped
>final exam
>lagrange multiplier question from hell
>spend at least half my time on it, even though its 1/10 problems
>dont get it
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>go to professor after class, to ask what the fuck the answer was
>"Well Anon should have been something simple to compute, IIRC it was √16x, so 4√x"
>"WHAT?! I got (2/3pi√17x)/11 + 3/2√x"
>"No..." *chuckles condescendingly* "...I don't think that was it. Here, let's do it now just so you know how to do it"
>two blackboards and 15 minutes later he just gives up
>"Uhhh maybe I'll make that one worth less points"
>mfw
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Also:
>took linear algebra this semester
>"Exam is cumulative so make sure you devote equal time to all sections"
>"Don't just study the more recent material!" ;)
>feverishly study every section equally
>arrive at exam brimming with confidence
>open test, read through the test first
>heart sinks, feels like I swallowed liquid helium
>literally half the test is on chapter 7 (last section we covered)
>I'm rusty on it because I spent time going over sections that WEREN'T EVEN COVERED at the expense of the section that, you know, actually mattered for the final
>will be lucky if I even passed the final

Why is my life a dark abyss?
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>>7729676
>presentations
>in programming

This is why the other STEM majors laugh at us
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>>7729811
>Programming II class
>Advanced Java programming
>failrate like 60%+. Most visited/occupied course each semester
>TFW when people failed the exam twice already and taking this class a third time

Why don't they just get a gud book and code some things at home. Seriously.
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>>7729821
You get a lot of kids who either
* took a Visual Basic class in high school
* "taught" themselves how to program, which probably consists of installing acrobat reader at their summer job

So they don't know shit about the theory behind object-oriented programming, don't know shit about what actually goes on in memory, know next to nothing about math... and so they crash and burn when actually asked to write their first program.
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>>7729786
>"Uhhh maybe I'll make that one worth less points"

academic equivalent of "let's just be friends"
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>>7729805
That sucks dude.
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>>7729650

Yeah, I have the feeling it'll be like that. I had just barely enough time to read each question and write something vaguely coherent, but I think the average will be very low. On the midterm, the average was 38.
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How are you studying for your finals? I see myself overwhelmed by the amount of papers and notes I collected. Do you write every topic you encounter in class on 1-2 pages and learn from them?
How do you do it?
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>>7728703

I basically had the same experience as >>7729553.
It's not bad of a class, most of the material is pretty straight forward. Just read ahead and do you work on time. Also, practice 20-30 problems in the week before each exam and take detailed notes you should be good.
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>>7730018
This, I literally have no idea how to study for finals besides doing tons of practice problems, only I don't know which problems are the good ones. How do you guys sit and study 5hrs a day? What do you do? I failed Accel Calc 1, but since I had Calc 1 credit from early in HS I decided to continue on to Calc 2 a) to forgive (my school has the standard forgiveness policy) my Accel Calc 1 fail and b) its an obvious requirement of my major. I did Accel Calc initially to get me back to speed with what I probably forgot after essentially taking 2 years off of serious math work but I have since failed to develop any sort of cohesive study habit. Is adderall the answer
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calc 3 is literally impossible for white people
nobody nonazn can do that much arithmetic without fucking up
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>>7728247
That's not how REUs work. I graduated with a 4.0, and the only REU I ever got into was when someone in my department set one up just for me.
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>>7728357
Maxwell equations
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>>7730591
Kinda true. Most asians I've met are just good in tore memorization and algorithm like calculations. They just ace at the since they practised those mechanism thousand times.
But most asians I've met struggled A LOT with conceptional and more "creative" classes like Discrete Math/Calc I/...
Like, they ace at these classes but as soon it comes to conceptional, creative transfer they are lost
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>>7730710
Asian representative here.
No, asians are not better at simple math than other races. And the thing about imagination is so generalized it cannot be more that a stereotype.
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>>7728144
>look up final grades for semester
>final grade: 89
>realized a single problem on the final cost me a letter grade
>drive to the campus next day and prepare to do some major dicksucking to get an A
>lmao no worries anon I rounded your grade up already :)
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>tfw all A's for the past three semesters

I have no life but man are these grades sure rewarding. I can't wait to reminisce on these good ol' college days when I'm 60 years old and alone :^)
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>more "creative" classes like Discrete Math/Calc I/...
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>>7730728
EVERY asian bro and chick I've met admitted that they have problems in such ways. It's okay being salty being an asian yourself but there's a saying that to each stereotype there's some truth behind it.

Now, prepare the rice boiler.
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>>7729786
Just took that 'math for physicists and engineers' today, and hardest thing on it was laurent series. The only legrange we talked about was to see if a function was analytic. What is a lagrange multiplier?
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pharmacology, not fun but reasonable
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>>7730758

holy shit american universities are so soft, Im glad my university doesnt inflate my grades to placate academic failures such as you
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>take a bunch of time-consuming courses in the same semester
>b's across the board
>mfw I could've just pawned one of the classes onto next semester and gotten an A in the remainders
>mfw I'm sitting here praying to god to give me at least one A and everyone else is just relieved by a C
What the fuck is wrong with me?
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>>7729805
this happned to me as well bro :/

I studied all the old material more than the recent one and the final was mostly on the last chapter we covered. Felt like shit after I turned it in. I don't even wanna think about what I'll get because if I bomb the final then I'll get a D in the class even though I had an A going into the final.
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>>7728705
>>7728703
If you guys wanna be prepared for calc2, just practice during the break. Get yourselves the schaums 3000 practice problems for calculus thats floating on someones Drive and put in some work. You'll be fine. Its just integrals. Just try to understand series and memorize the mcleurin series for sinx, ln(1+x), e^x, and the basic one 1/1-x.
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>>7730728
I'll have the white rice...


hold the salt ;)
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>>7730844
Nothings wrong with you, you're just not an idiot like they are and know that you can do better than B's
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Bio A needed an 87 on the final and walked out and found out I lost 10 percent on a question so I was scared but made it.

Ochem A needed a 95% on the final to get an A so pulled an all nighter doing 300+ problems from wade test bank and got it.

Physics 2 A Needed only a 70 and had a (allowed) cheat sheet so wasn't too nervous but thought I did very poorly ended up with an 83 on the final but thankfully lab ta was a bro and gave high grades

Pysch needed an 83 on the final got an 84 ochem and psych were back to back and I spent all my time studying ochem. In the future i need to be more careful not ignoring easy classes

Bio Lab A got a 89 in the lab but the director bumped me up after going to talk to her. I hate doing shit like that but I need to get good grades.

Chem Lab A. Needed a 50 on the practical to get an A got like a 64. I got too cocky and didn't show up for the class before the practical and had no idea the format or what I was supposed to be doing.

Discrete Math Not posted. I needed an 87 to get an A and a 57 to get a B but it was the same day as bio so I focused only on Bio as a calculated move. I'm praying I got a B though since the final was so much more difficult than I thought it would be. I hate that this class will cost me my 4.0 but I had 5 finals and even if I get a C I will have >3.9 so it's recoverable.

Such is life as pre-med I fucked around this semester a lot but got lucky during finals. I can probably relax a little bit since I'm a spic which makes things easier but I know my classes will only get harder and my gpa will only go down.

I feel like no-one on /sci/ is pre-med. Anyone have any tips for ochem 2 and data structures I'm a bit nervous for next semester
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100% going into discrete math final
76%
end up with an 88% in the course instead of a 90%

but that's me being an asshole.
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>>7728586

gj man
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>>7730952
Is that all in one semester? Christ.
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>>7729761
American exams are mostly a repeat of the homework questions.
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>>7729761

In English, the phrase is "D's get degrees"
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>>7731138
Yah it was only 19 credit hours though and it was intro to bio though so it shouldn't have been too bad but i fucked up a earlier test by ignoring it to study ochem.
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>>7730952
>pre-meds
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>>7727105
>Cal 2
Reported for underage b&
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>>7730758
>lmao no worries anon I rounded your grade up already :)
did he say that before or after you swallowed?
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>>7730843
stay salty, eurocuck :^)
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>>7730952
LMAO
Wait until you get to the real shit
OChem is the end of the beginning
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>>7732435
>Thinks about cuckoldry all the time
>Spends his time worrying another male will dominate him, or otherwise render him the cuck
>Fixates on structures and degrees of control relative to one's attributes. Hierarchical associations fills his mind
>Eventually, through these thoughts, he unwittingly shapes himself such that he has become the cuck
>Cucked by yourself
Cuck.
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That is supposedly my final grade. Needless to say, I'm livid.
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