Calculus rant

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I hate derivatives. I hate hate hate them. Why would I ever have to find dy/dx of anything in terms of t? I wanna be a sociologist. Sure, why don't we implicitly differentiate the human race, because that makes sense. Maybe if I use the power rule instead, that will solve world hunger! What a waste of my time. I spend hours and hours and hours on this crap a week, just to have a C in the class. My only C. The end.</p>

<p>Gah it feels good to get that outta my system. Fellow Calculus Comrades, how are you fairing?</p>

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<p>For the entire first semester, I didn’t get above a C on any test. Up until the test days, I would think I’d understand the stuff, and then…nope. Another C. </p>

<p>However, I do completely understand integrals of partial fractions and improper integrals (our first topics of the new semester). Thank goodness. </p>

<p>I also hate e.</p>

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<p>calculus sucks man…</p>

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<p>I actually like derivatives…it’s the only math thing I can do.</p>

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<p>A group project lowered my semester grade to a C. -.- I would’ve been better off working alone lol. Anyways, in order to get a B for the semester, I can’t get anything lower than a 93% on the final. Shouldn’t be too difficult if I put my mind to it.</p>

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<p>Calculus gets a lot worse than derivatives.</p>

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<p>I actually really enjoy calculus, though my entire life I’ve been a humanities person.</p>

<p>Calculus is a technical course, and like all technical courses, it requires the development of insight rather than formulaic memorization.</p>

<p>Once you get that down, everything will come easily.</p>

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<p>Just practice at it more, and it should become easier.</p>

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<p>Hey, I need help with something. I have 500 feet of fencing and I need to create a pen with 3 sides, as the fourth will be my house. Do you fine gentlemen know what dimensions will maximize the area of my pen? Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>I second Tizzy. Derivatives are the easiest part.</p>

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<p>Derivatives are easy.</p>

<p>now try finding 3d parametric surfaces.</p>

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<p>Calc II is SO hard. And I thought the first semester sucked…at least I got Cs instead of straight-up Fs. I would love to study more, but that’s rather tough when you have five AP classes.</p>

<p>**** different methods of integration! I can’t keep it all (as well as all the previous integration tricks) in my head! I’m sleep deprived for chrissake! And if I continue this way, I’ll get a D, and then I’ll be rescinded! T_T heeeeeeelp meeee</p>

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<p>Thank god you guys share my pain! Everyone I talk to keep saying calculus is so easy! -_-</p>

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<p>Only a C? Do you even lift?</p>

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<p>Story of my life.</p>

<p>I don’t get how people are good at Calc.</p>

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<p>Fun stuff. I was bored by math before, now I enjoy it.</p>

<p>Just practice and you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>Apparently your reading skills aren’t up to snuff, though.</p>

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<p>Personally I find calculus pretty awesome, I mean somethings are pretty mind blowing i.e. relations between derivatives and integrals, the fact you can represent any function as an infinite polynomial, finding areas of irregular objects, finding instantaneous rate of change, optimizing or minimizing things using derivatives, and the list goes on and on…</p>

<p>Just my opinion.</p>

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<p>Derivatives are the easiest part. If you think that is bad, wait until you get to integration (especially if you’re in Calc BC). Calculus is used universally among the sciences (yes, including sociology, my calculus textbook has sociology examples in it). If you still don’t know how it applies to the real world, then I think you’re missing the “big picture” and are just focused on algebraic manipulations. Ask yourself - what is a derivative? What does it model in real life?</p>

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<p>derivatives are easy!!!
and yeah, wait til you get to integration hahaha.</p>