Math rant

[Triple J]

I'm an engineer...


...and I hate shit like this. 

I prefer big equipment building things. 

[KnightofNi]

math is hard...




also, 1) what's wrong with being an ME? 2)most of the engineers i know (most of my friends) choose alcoholism as their method of forgetting shit like this.

[yamifixer]

most of the engineers i know (most of my friends) choose alcoholism as their method of forgetting shit like this.

WORKS FOR ME.

[Airborne]

IM AM SO GLAD I AM DONE WITH ALL THAT CRAP

the happiest day of my life was when it was all over I shit you not... calc 1 -4 plus diff equations, but multivariate was the big suck. We never got forumla sheets so I had to memorize EVERYTHING. we weren't allowed to use calculators either, everything had to be done by hand, mind you this was last year and not the 1950s

I feel your pain

It will all be over soon enough, then you can forget most of it, sell your book spend the money on your bike, burn all your notes and piss on the flames like I did.

[He Man]

When the hel lwere you ever allowed to use calculators? lol It ends with Linear Algebra!! only 1 full year of math to go...

1) what's wrong with being an ME? 2)most of the engineers i know (most of my friends) choose alcoholism as their method of forgetting shit like this.

Nothings wrong with ME, its just that everyone whos sick of every other engineering turns to ME at my school. Its like the default engineering major (they also account for the largest group of engineers out there, ~15% i think, CEs make up the next largest group) so it makes sense. Its a more popular field since MEs are needed for A LOT of things. then CE, then EE then CHEM-E and BIO-E. The last report i read placed CE and ME at relatively high numbers, but ME's were more than half of all Engineers in general. EEs were rising, and Chem-e and bio-e were the least popular.

Anyway, i spoke to the professor about some of the stuff on the test. yea im defintely getting an ~80 on the test, the lost of 20 points were mostly for though process errors and said, he oenst care if i got a 20 on the test, as long as i had ideas on paper that made sense, it was just an excercise to twist the brain and prepare us for the final.

[Popeye the Sailor]

dude is that really you?

Nope, and for the record, that is  Schroedinger's equation for the wave function of a particle.

3-D Time-dependent Schrodinger to be precise.



My head hurts.

[He Man]

that was easy. lol

In a twist of irony, my teacher put up that exact equation on the board when he was talking about the diff-q class he teaches. except he used f(x,y) in place of those werid letters that i want no association with. And strange enough it was cause i said, wtf is a gradient squared?? and thought to myself, hey, didnt i type that somewhere. 

So im passing all my class with B+ or better. yay......xpt i failed physics miserably, even with a 30pt curve. I dont feel to bad though. only 4 of the 67 students passed. That F really kills my GPA though. since this is my first semester.

[gojira]

Yikes!

Math.

That which fried my brain more so than anything else in college.

Including beer, drugs and ladies.

[KnightofNi]

IM AM SO GLAD I AM DONE WITH ALL THAT CRAP

the happiest day of my life was when it was all over I shit you not... calc 1 -4 plus diff equations, but multivariate was the big suck. We never got forumla sheets so I had to memorize EVERYTHING. we weren't allowed to use calculators either, everything had to be done by hand, mind you this was last year and not the 1950s

I feel your pain

It will all be over soon enough, then you can forget most of it, sell your book spend the money on your bike, burn all your notes and piss on the flames like I did.

holy jebus...was your prof the marquis de sade?

[Triple J]

So im passing all my class with B+ or better. yay......xpt i failed physics miserably, even with a 30pt curve. I dont feel to bad though. only 4 of the 67 students passed. That F really kills my GPA though. since this is my first semester.

How in the hell do you pass high level math, but fail physics??? I always did great in my physics classes, but struggled in the math ones...not practical enough I guess. 

Which physics?

[Le Pirate]

this is why I went biology instead of ME or the likes.


I use a little statistics and thats all the math I need, besides the basic skills 

[He Man]

How in the hell do you pass high level math, but fail physics??? I always did great in my physics classes, but struggled in the math ones...not practical enough I guess. 

Which physics?

Simple. 45 mins, 16 questions.

Physics II is a requirement only for engineers, physics, and math majors. 67 students in our section. avg is ~45 first test, 30 second test, and 60 third test(only the good people stayed). He says he only passes about 5-10 people a semester.

Hea terrible professor. Says the test will be like home work questions, but they become some crazy combination of integration to get the numbers just to apply the physics. He has never picked up a piece of chalk. EVER. he does everything by word pad and MS paint.

I passed physics I with an A and skipped the final. It was on the same difficulty as this class, but the prof graded us on the application of physics, not trying to trick us. We had 1:30 to do 4 questions.

The final is departmental, so hopefully it is MUCH easier.....

Do you guys think its possible to do both Diffy-Q and Linear Algebra  in 1 semester?

[erkishhorde]

The 2 used to be combined into 1 class at Cal Poly.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Do you guys think its possible to do both Diffy-Q and Linear Algebra  in 1 semester?

Lin Alg is pretty easy-much easier than what you're doing, so yes.


Diffy-screws is also not bad. Go for it.

[Triple J]

Hea terrible professor. Says the test will be like home work questions, but they become some crazy combination of integration to get the numbers just to apply the physics. He has never picked up a piece of chalk. EVER. he does everything by word pad and MS paint.

I passed physics I with an A and skipped the final. It was on the same difficulty as this class, but the prof graded us on the application of physics, not trying to trick us. We had 1:30 to do 4 questions.

The final is departmental, so hopefully it is MUCH easier.....

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