<p>I took Calculus AB my junior year and received a 5, and therefore I'm eligible to take Math 32 or 32L. The course synopses on ACES aren't too different and I was wondering what are the major differences and which one I should take (I may be a math major). Thanks.</p>
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I am in the same situation JD--I am leaning toward 32 because I prefer pure math to applied. In addition to majoring in math, I am doing pre-med, so I have plenty of other lab courses to take.</p>
<p>Yea, the only real difference between 32 and 32L (besides the lab part), is that 32 is restricted to first-years only. So, you won't have any upperclassmen in your class. My advice: Take 32. Why? The labs.</p>
<p>The math labs for 31 and 32 are horrrrrrrible. They aren't hard at all, just monotonous, mind-numbing wastes of time. All you do is sit around with a small 2-3 person group and do really long word problems using the concepts you just learned. The only upside is that they boost your grade a bit because they are easy and the work usually comprises around 10-15% of your overall grade. </p>
<p>If I had to do it again though, let me reiterate I would NOT want to do the lab. Think of that extra hour or so of freedom you will have! Ahhhhhhh ok, I have to stop writing now before the pain of those hours of boredom comes flooding back...</p>
<p>Whoa... I hope I wasn't your lab TA...</p>
<p>No, my lab TA was a math PhD student who couldn't really speak English very well and when he tried to explain something, couldn't do it without going into these abstract mathematical (PhD-type) theories.</p>
<p>ahaha welcome to my world :)</p>
<p>Wait, you're supposed to have an undergrad TA and a grad student TA. Did you only have one??</p>
<p>If you take 32 without the lab, though, just make sure that you do figure out how to use your calculator... Amazing the number of people that hit my engineering classes and tell me they took forever on a particular test problem and it turns out it was because they did the whole blessed thing by hand instead of the 8-button-pushes it would take a TI-83...</p>