<p>Hi. I need a little help. I've been in a community college for a while and now I'm transferring into a political science major. The problem is that I don't want to do political science- it's pretty interesting but there's no passion. I picked it after failing calculus for the first time. I decided at that point to just give up on the sciences all together. However, I can't imagine myself doing anything that doesn't require calculus as a prerequisite. To make things even more frustrating and complicated for myself, even though I'm not incredibly smart and genius-like, I don't think there's anything better about school than the feeling from figuring out elaborate math problems. This may seem ridiculous, but I think I might want to major in it (maybe? Wishful thinking?) I know it's just beginners stuff, but there is absolutely no passion anywhere else for me and lately I've been reading Humongous Book of Calculus Problems along with my textbook and things make way more sense than when I was in class.
I'm not sure what to do- there's a starting point, so if you want, could you help me out a little.
Also, have any of you fellow Californians gotten any notice about your Cal Grant status? My application hasn't been processed yet.
Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Sounds like an easy choice to me. Suck it up and do Calculus</p>
<p>Figure out exactly why you failed last time and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Maybe now you will have a newfound interest and motivation for the maths and sciences?</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>The problem is that you’re intimidated by calculus, not that you feel you can’t do it.</p>
<p>You need to get over the intimidation; the way to do that is too practice calculus as much as you can until you feel comfortable with it. Try buying the book “3000 solved calculus problems” (I think that’s what it’s called. It’s on Amazon) by the time you do even just 1/8th of the problems in that book, you should begin feeling more confident.</p>
<p>Don’t let a roadblock stop you from pursuing what you really want to do. Don’t give up, find a way to overcome.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I think I’ll look at that book- I’m feeling way more motivated.</p>