<p>just wandering how hard are calculus classes in college especially like ( umich, msu)
are professors helpful if u dont know how to do some stuff or are they like figure it out on ur own</p>
<p>Instructors may or may not be your first point of contact if you need help. You might have a TA who will answer questions, or you may be expected to get help in a math help room or whatever your university happens to call it. Classmates are a very valuable (possibly THE most valuable) resource too.</p>
<p>The difficulty of a course depends primarily on the instructor and secondarily on the selectivity of the university. Your aptitude for and affinity to math will certainly play a role as well :)</p>
<p>haha thnx ive heard some bad stuff about calc in college</p>
<p>There’s nothing inherently hard about college calculus, but it may be an adjustment from high school math for several reasons:</p>
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<li><p>The format and pacing of the class is different. The lecture will only meet for 2-3 hours each week instead of 5. That means that there will be new material introduced each class, with little time spent on review and reinforcement. If you fall behind, it will be hard to catch back up. </p></li>
<li><p>Calculus uses all of the math you have learned in high school. If you didn’t “get” algebra, you could still do geometry. You could study exponential functions in pre-calc even if triangles never quite made sense to you. That’s not how it works in calculus. </p></li>
<li><p>Calculus is its own branch of mathematics, and the concepts might initially look nothing like the algebra or geometry you have seen before. If your course starts out with the definition of a limit, it’s really easy to get scared by the notation and give up right there and then. Drawing pictures is extremely helpful!</p></li>
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<p>yea i havnt taken math since soph year. i took hon pre calc soph year and then i just didnt take calc. i feel like ive forgotten all my basic math stuff =(</p>