<p>College is soo hard!! Especially math! I go to the math study center everyday, I spend many hours on math, but I keep failing the quizzes!! I just got my quiz back, and I got 1/10!! I am soo scared!!! We have quizzes every single week and they are so different from the homework! I wish I was naturally good with math. I'm soo sad!!! I feel like I'm going to get kicked out or dropped out. :( I feel so sick and tired. My head hurts so bad. Please help me!! I don't want to get kicked out!! What can I do? I'm usually a bad test taker, and the majority of our grade is based on tests.</p>
<p>Practice, practice, and practice some more. If you are a "bad test taker" you will never do good in math. Just take whatever problems you know are going to be on the upcoming test and make up some practice tests for yourself. If you are practicing your ass off and still failing, maybe you might want to look into taking a Logic course in the Philosophy department instead of Math.</p>
<p>I feel your pain. I'm doing awful in Calculus right now as well. Yet I would practically sleep through PreCalculus my senior year and I kept racking up A's and A's. Calculus right now is mopping the floor with my butt. :(</p>
<p>If you need some help with math feel free to PM me some time. I'm a wizard at math. I've gotten A's in Precalculus, Calculus, Calculus 2, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, and currently taking Calculus-based Statistics and have an A in there right now. Just ask away and chances are I'll have a good idea of how to do it.</p>
<p>Have you shared your problem with your professor? Maybe he or she would be willing to help you figure out why it isn't working for you. I'd use that as an opportunity also to let the professor know that you are struggling, but trying to seek help. If you get an unacceptable grade, you could always retake the course. Good luck.</p>
<p>Talk to your professor, lots, and work as hard as you can to get a C. Then don't take anymore math. You should be done with whatever gen-ed math requirements there are with this course, and if you are awful at math, I would doubt your major would be math heavy.</p>
<p>Everyone gets some awful grades. It happens. Don't let it affect your other studies. If your major is something unrelated to math, grad schools / potential employeers will not care much about that grade.</p>
<p>I started this year as a Freshman in Computer Engineering. After seeing how much difficulty I'm having in Calculus and Chemistry for Engineers, I elected to drop some courses and change my major to undecided for now. Unfortunatly, I still have to take these two courses because if I drop them, I'll be taking too few semester hours to be eligible for my full scholarship. I already lost an additional $1500 per year by getting out of engineering. :(</p>
<p>I have to do well in my courses, get at least a 3.0 GPA to be eligible for my full scholarship as well. I'm really worried about my grades right now, I am freaking out, I am so stressed. :(</p>
<p>But thank goodness in less a month after starting college I realized that engineering is just not for me, I probably would have ended by wasting even more money by switching my major later on huh?</p>
<p>Thanks for your offer to help teach me math adconard. You can always email me at <a href="mailto:rahulnimal2000@yahoo.com">rahulnimal2000@yahoo.com</a>, I check my email at least 4 times every day. </p>
<p>The problem is, its not the coursework thats giving me trouble, its me. I..I just don't feel like studying for math and science. Yet I open up my Sociology book with zeal and keep reading past the assigned chapters. I used to love math and science in middle and high school and excelled at them. But now, I just am disgusting by being in Calculus and Chemistry for Engineers right now. Why this sudden change? In my senior year of high school last year, I really enjoyed my PreCal and Physics classes, what happened to me all of a sudden? All I'm interested in now is humanities courses and such.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's usually the problem for most people. Just being motivated to do it in the first place. Once in a while I do that too so don't worry. The thing is, for me, if I know the stuff then it will help me a lot in a few other courses later on (I'm in Computer Science and possibly going on to grad school for it, so probably a lot more math material might pop up again). As for other majors ... nope it's useless I guess, lol. I'll be truthful there. So I can understand why many people would dread the courses. Plus I'm required to take a lot of math anyway for the major (15 hours of it I think, basically a math minor).</p>