Why I didn't major in math

[Dr Aum]

But then I thought differentiation under the intergration sign was silly...

Differentiation? Do you mean derivative?

Integrals of derivatives are useful because of that F(b)-F(a) theorem (I forget what it's called).

Nope, I mean differentiation under the integral sign. (Apparently its an easier method of solving complex integrals by differentiating the integrand with respect to a new variable and then integrating that with respect to the original variable, as opposed to integration by parts.)

Oops, my mistake. I just learned on Wikipedia that differentiation is the same as what I was taught as "taking the derivative of." Suddenly differential equations make much more sense.

[Peegee]

I'm pretty bad at Math. I don't even want to take Pre-Calc next year, since only 3 years of Math are required, but the guidance councilor made me because she said it looks good. ;__;

So basically, the little hangy man would be on the second step of the problem for me.

But Rye you have to math to be asian!

I've done really basic mathematics that required an entire page of hand-written 'proof'. That alone hurt my head. Anything harder than that and I'll either make a mistake or lose my train of thought :p

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[Ouch!]

This is precisely why I'm going to follow my cousin's example and take classes like Mathematics for Liberal Arts and Science Majors to avoid ever taking calculus. I've already ducked out of it in high school, I hope to be as lucky in the years to come.

[oddler]

Math wasn't too bad while I was taking it. It was my favorite subject, actually.
I probably wouldn't even be able to complete the square or any other kind of kinky factoring now, though.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I always liked math. In High School, it was easy. I took one Calc course in university and I did horrible, passed, but horrible. I think the problem was that all we were marked on was web-work (which was too easy), assigments (which were ridiculously hard most of the time) and quizzes. That was 15% of our grade. The final was 85% of it. We did not have a means between the two. Apparently the final was suppose to be somewhere inbetween which it was, but still. It kinda sucks the difficulty is not consistent. Also I missed like the last four weeks of class when we did integrals (which we did not cover in High School).

[ljkkjlcm9]

that's nothing. I could probably solve that if I could see the whole thing. In college, engineering typically requires using "engineering paper" which is green paper with light grids on it.

I hated aerospace engineering, because it's far more complex than that problem even dreamed of being.

THE JACKEL

[eestlinc]

nobody has to do stuff like that in a regular first-year calculus class.

[ljkkjlcm9]

nobody has to do stuff like that in a regular first-year calculus class.

and on top of that, everything you learn in the first two years of calculus, that takes an entire page to do, you learn how to do in 2 seconds.

THE JACKEL

[~*~Celes~*~]

I like geometry....