Dealing with Frustration and Hopelessness

[NeoDymium]

The images bring back fond memories of those level things. wikipedia didn’t have the solution equations on first two hits, but I bet I could come up with a search term that would.

You can find information about the concepts, but you would be wrong to think that wikipedia or google will solve your homework for you. Practice problems are much more specific than “real life” problems. In other words:

Similarly, I just don’t think the lecture notes are going to have a play-by-play solution in a senior level class. Maybe a hint or two, but that assumes you are following along.

applies to online resources as well. You are meant to be able to figure things out for yourself.

Is there a way I can be like my other classmates and just know how to do everything from the lecture notes? It’s like II go over the lectures, make sure I understand the concepts before doing the homeworks, but then I still get stuck on the homework problems and it’s super annoying. I do things like explaining the lecture concepts on my own without looking at the notes but is there really any way to make sure you know that you know the concepts?

Maybe the issue is that most of the homework problems are from the textbook and the professors at my school usually don’t follow the textbook? I also find that reading and understanding the textbook is a lot more difficult than learning from the professors themselves.

Nothing wrong with homework problems from the book - that’s usually easier because the textbook has examples directly related to the homework. You should be able to take good notes that let you recall important lecture concepts.

It really seems like your problem is that you just didn’t develop the proper study skills of a high achieving student. It’s a bit late now and you might just have to grind through it and just finish your education the best you can. One year to go and then you will be finished with it, so it’s not too bad.