<p>So I thought I'd share that today was the first day of my CC calc class and I'm going to die.</p>
<p>I now have no more inklings of wanting to be a math major. For all those mathematically inclined, I'm jealous.</p>
<p>haha, my trig class (dual-credit college) is going to kill me. and I'll have to take calc next year.</p>
<p>Best get a bodyguard then. :D</p>
<p>Hah...AP Calc...Trig...</p>
<p>My advice: NEVER take Calc II. EVER. Do not ever fool yourself into thinking that you can handle it, because you cannot.</p>
<p>That's why I took AP Stats instead :-)</p>
<p>That's math for you. It sucks.</p>
<p>I can't imagine anyone would actually enjoy it enough to major in it, but I guess there are some strange people out there :D.</p>
<p>Try AP Calc and AP Stats at the same time. At least my focus of hatred shifts from day to day.</p>
<p>Blasphemy!</p>
<p>Haha, I take AP Calc.</p>
<p>I'm pretty much a hopeless case at it, and a real disgrace to the Asian race. My math skills have just gone down the tubes since I started Calc.</p>
<p>I took AP Physics B last year and rejoiced when it ended. Now I've finally learned that Calc is the math behind physics--why did I not know this before I signed up?!</p>
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<p>You're crazy.........</p>
<p>Give me five reasons why math is appealing. :D</p>
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<li> Now I can count beyond my fingers and toes</li>
<li> Classes full of guys</li>
<li> It's better than science</li>
<li> I will kind of need it for business major (just a little)</li>
<li> My HS doesn't offer many other APs</li>
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<p>It is not better than science. Well at least not better than Bio and Chem.</p>
<p>I should have rephrased it to why math is fun. I can't imagine solving problems all the time is fun to anyone. Like I jump up with glee when someone gives me a logarithmic function he/she wants me to graph. Oh, and without a graphing calculator! :D</p>
<p>Actually, it's really satisfying when you solve a difficult problem.</p>
<p>Like in pre-calc, I loved doing trig proofs. In geometry, I liked proofs too. =]</p>
<p>At least it's cut and dry. It's probably nice for those think-inside-the-box types. And stats really is applicable to real life.</p>
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<li><p>Can you build rockets with words? Fly, rocket, fly! Aeronautics. How about cars? Computers? Light bulbs? Trains? Planes? Bridges? Even pineapples like Fibonacci. ;)</p></li>
<li><p>In math, you can copy answers. Try doing that with an essay. :)</p></li>
<li><p>The concepts build on each other. In other subjects, one day you are talking about Genetics and the next day you are talking about Plant Taxonomy. In math, once you understand the concepts, you build on what you already know to find out more things. Ex. Numbers -> Division -> Fractions -> Variables -> Rational Expressions -> Partial Fraction Decomposition -> Quotient Rule in Differentiation, and so forth. </p></li>
<li><p>If you are good at math, you are also good at Chemistry, Physics, Rocket Science, Cosmology, etc. It is the basis for a lot of studies.</p></li>
<li><p>Math is awesome. :D</p>
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<p>That is a misconception. I know several mathematics-oriented poets. :)
In problem solving, there are several ways to solve the same problem. In the the regular curriculum, ways to find solutions are often taught only one way. You can be as creative as you want. And true, the math you find in school is often cut-and-dry. Competition mathematics in completely different.</p>
<p>Well, chaostheory is obviously a bit biased. :)</p>
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<li>If you are good at math, you are also good at Chemistry, Physics, Rocket Science, Cosmology, etc. It is the basis for a lot of studies.</li>
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<p>This, too, is a misconception (sry about my previous one--I guess I'm not enlightened in the ways of math yet). If you are good at math you are likely (but not destined) to be good at all those things. I, for one, am good at precisely zero of them.</p>
<p>I'm good at math, but I don't like it. And actually I'm better with Biology than Chem and Physics.</p>
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<p>Well, usually you are either right brain dominant (artistic) or left brain dominant (organized, good at math), but some people are balanced between the two.</p>
<p>In math, you CAN'T copy answers...why would you even try? You have to show your work so there is no point in copying answers without the work. If you copy the work, that's plain stupid because you could have did it yourself in the first place.</p>
<p>Also technology isn't need for human survival, we just have become dependent on it over the years. A lot of your examples are mainly factory made parts that are put together.</p>
<p>By, the way, Biology builds on concepts you already learned, but in a different way...most subjects do.</p>
<p>There is no difference between Competitions and School problems. They all use the same concepts.</p>
<p>Well you would only be copying the work if you didn't know how to do it.</p>