<p>I eventually did decide on a university to transfer to. Specifically, because my instructor for this one class did not cover the required material, we were severely underprepared for the next class. I didn't quite realize how underprepared I was until I went to go talk to the department chair at the university I was planning to attend. He told me that we covered less than 60% of the required material, which means our class missed a LOT. He decided to let me audit his summer class of the same subject, despite coming in halfway through the first summer semester. Well needless to say, I'm struggling to keep up with the auditing material I missed and I've gotten a zero on each quiz we've done. If you'll read my linked thread, I managed to make an A in this same class I took this past spring, but now I'm starting to really doubt some of my aptitude.</p>
<p>I was planning on taking the next class in the sequence during the 2nd summer semester. But I can barely keep up with working 16 hours a week and auditing this class. I'm not allowed to take the midterms, so I don't know how well I'd truly do. If I don't take the next class in July, I will seriously be bottlenecked in classes next spring with me only being eligible to take one class and one class only. For financial aid reasons, that cannot happen. There are no more gen-ed, easy classes I can take.</p>
<p>What should I do? I'm clearly NOT prepared for this next class and I would hate for my very first-ever grade at my new university to be an F or a D.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’d use patrickjmt to attempt to self study all of the material you don’t comprehend (you could use the AP Calc syllabus on college board, if you don’t quite know what to try to learn first); he makes it so easy. Derivates aren’t so bad, but there are a few you need to memorize such as the derivative of the trig functions, chain rule, power rule, quotient rule, derivative of logarithmic functions, and some others I missed. Also, there are alot of related rates and optimization examples he has that you can watch. </p>
<p>Oh. Oops. I appreciate the reply, but I think there’s been a misunderstanding. Calculus was not the class I took. I took a basic engineering class, and in the above thread, I just compared a standard curriculum for calculus to the amount of curriculum that we covered in that engineering class.</p>
<p>We were supposed to do some actual engineering application, but instead in that class, all we did was just play with vectors the entire semester: look at a diagram and resolve them into components. That’s quite literally all we did. But technically and legally, that’s not all we were supposed to do.</p>
<p>Why don’t you tell us what the course is? Is it statics and you’re worried about dynamics? As far as I know, you’re going to need to know both of these like the back of your hand and even if you know them both really well, you can still get pretty mediocre grades in your classes (which is something you’re going to have to be accustomed to accepting if you work and go to school even if you are fairly bright). </p>
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<p>I’m not exactly sure what you’re looking for. Reassurance? It sounds like you’re setting yourself up for failure taking the next class when you’re not prepared for it. </p>
<p>The class indeed is Dynamics. I didn’t quite specify what class it was because I wasn’t sure people would be encouraged to reply unless it was a generalized format in which they might understand. </p>
<p>I took statics this past spring and the instructor was not an engineer himself, so he never really understood what he was supposed to cover. We the students never got a syllabus, thus we never knew what we’re supposed to cover. So everyone was in the dark in that class. And now we’re all doomed.</p>
<p>Summer 2 starts next week and I have realized that I cannot keep up with the class statics by auditing it. Taking dynamics is not going to be any better for me to keep up. I have talked to people in statics right now about what they think and they either don’t care if they get a D or not. They actually aren’t even keeping up with the material themselves, but they are still passing, either by sheer luck or something. </p>