<p>I'm planning on majoring in chemical engineering, I'll likely attend Georgia Tech. It's really hitting me that I'm going to be taking some difficult (expletive gerund) classes in just a few months, and that I won't be the smartest person in the class anymore.</p>
<p>So, what should I start doing now and the rest of my senior year to get prepared? I'm taking AP Calc AB and BC, but it's high school math and VERY superficial (the class is designed around getting kids at my decent but not great public school 4's and 5's, not actually learning calc in depth). It's been a breeze so far (only mildly difficult part has been the application of integrals with the cross-sections and stuff, but that's more mind-bending than difficult as I suck with 3-D geometry), but I can tell that it's only so easy in class because of how shallow our coverage is.</p>
<p>I'm planning on skipping the AP Exam-jumping ahead in math at Georgia Tech without <em>exceptional</em> ability seems very counterproductive-and I have the textbook that GT uses for Calc 1, but don't know what they do out of it or what the tests look like. Should I just do as much of the exercises in there as I can? Online resources?</p>
<p>I also have AP Physics C (Mech) next semester, which I assume will also be mostly useless. What can I do physics-wise to get ready for chemical engineering? </p>
<p>Many thanks for any help.</p>