<p>Ok thank God. I’m actually excited to take it though, I’ve heard a lot of good things about discrete math. </p>
<p>But I figure I’ll definitely have my hands full with the other three classes so I’m hoping discrete math won’t be too bad</p>
<p>I dream of math lol</p>
<p>all this talk of discrete math has me intrigued… hey arcadefire, i might sit in on a class or two hahah.</p>
<p>Math is awesome, I wish I had any talent in it. I had an amazing Geometry teacher in middle school (I am a year ahead, but I truly suck at math) and she showed us math movies sometimes. Everyone would be talking or uninterested (and there were kids in my class in trig in the 8th grade), but I would be mesmerized by the intricate details.</p>
<p>Math at the basic level is unimaginative, direct, and to-the-point. That’s where they lose people. But upper-level math is literally a product of genius and imagination.</p>
<p>Hey wasn’t there this movie called “Stand and Deliver”, a dude in LA makes a bunch of kids in a central LA school actually pass the calculus AP test…</p>
<p>it was pretty cool</p>
<p>the whole theory part of math is really confusing…</p>
<p>I tried reading up on number theory once and I was like ***</p>
<p>yeah about roosevelt high in east LA they all passed with five and since the college board was racist and thought kids from the ghetto cant do well in school they made them retake it and all passed with mostly fives and a couple of fours and keep their original scores of all fives afterwards</p>
<p>@arcadefire1027 - physics…it’s not really about studying
i guess you CAN study
but what it comes down to is whether you get it or not.
People spend hours studying for this stuff but their brain just doesn’t comprehend it. Some people just sit in on a lecture and they immediately get it. (usually the very math oriented people)
for me, i suck at math so some parts i got (with study or without) but most of it…damn.</p>
<p>Well I’m hoping for the best then. I usually get math. I had a lot of problems with chemistry, but I think physics is a whole different beast so I’ll try to not let chemistry discourage me.</p>
<p>Stand and Deliver, </p>
<p>The name of the teacher was Jaime Escalante, and the School was Garfield High School, which is in East Los Angeles.</p>
<p>yeah, physics and chem is pretty different</p>
<p>@Jason2009 I know, it was awesome in that respect because the College Board sucks. IT SUCKS.</p>
<p>Yo essay holmes Escalante! (pun)</p>
<p>Escalante: You think you got it, Johnny? Think you have the answer?
Tito: Juan is X, Carlos is Y, Pedro is X + Y. Is Pedro bisexual or straight?
Escalante: Sometimes I worry about you.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>come to think of it, that is number theory isn’t it…</p>
<p>what exactly happens when you add two quantites together?</p>
<p>I wish I knew what you guys were talking about haha</p>
<p>heh hehehh… yeah… college is awesome [=</p>
<p>i was so freaked out and a bit turned on (not downstairs, turned on upstairs of course!) when i met Jenn! Shes a 6th year grad student in the math department. ohh emm gee!! a girl!!! She is a normaly girl too, tall, white, getting married soon, not the “cute lil asian” ones from extensions… </p>
<p>…Math Ph.D ftw! </p>
<p>** The UCR Extensions is a department which brings foreign students to come study here in the States. Most of the students are (fobs) from overseas. Many of your first year classes’ TAs (who are grad students) may be these extensions students who are still perfecting their engrish… some of the lil asians are cute, i know a few of you guys likie them azns so go for it LOL</p>
<p>Dude i love asians lol</p>
<p>aww i did it in all caps but they made it lowercase =/</p>
<p>aww, stupid cc, how dare they lowercase your expression of love towards the orient! </p>
<p>man im hella south east asian, but ppl always ask if im indian, lame… got use to it after 13 years here lol. grew up in ktown, went to highschool in chinatown, buddies were all at historic flip town, and lil tokyo was the kickback hahhhah</p>
<p>LOL dude i thought you were indian too ROFLLLLLL</p>
<p>I thought you were Indian as well oO</p>
<p>LOL. same here dude, i guess i was wrong :S</p>
<p>LOL, my name is hella indian… parents wanted to fit in and just gave me a random indian name when we moved to the states, like i really dont know what my original name was. but it makes for good jokes:
“good morning folks, welcome to the university of california riverside! my name is mehedi, rhymes with machete, or spaghetti n confetti, you’ll eventually figure it out by the end of the tour…”
its 6:22am and my stomach is growling… guess it has energy, RAWR!! (lame bearfacts reference) </p>
<p>alrite, seeing as we’re all masters at sheiting bull and going off topic, lets throw out some crazy things ya’ll are expecting to experience in college… heh heh…</p>