O no chem 102 test tomorrow

[FIRST JerseyKid]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I know how you feel. Even without the championship, this quarter in college has been tough for me as well. Chemistry (2nd one), Physics, and Calculus 2 and Advocacy/Argument all at once. Chemistry is a 7:45 AM class two days a week and it is 37 miles away from my house and it is a 12 minute walk to the class once I park. For Calculus, I am learning integrals and hyperbolic trig functions and volumes of the region between two curves rotated about an axis and all this crazy stuff and it is really hard to keep up with. Physics should be easy but its not because I had two years of it in high school but I have forgotten a lot since it was two years ago that I last had it. The one thing going pretty well is Chem Lab. For some reason I just understand what I am doing for the most part. Maybe it is because the lab manual is very good and well written.

Anyhow the bottom line is (as Mark Leon says) it is all about the math. If you are going into engineering, you have to stick with the math and learn to like it. Don't let match scare you away from engineering though. The nice thing about math is that even if you can't find the answer, you know that a definite answer exists and so does a definite way of finding it. It is much better than something like art where everything can be the answer or philosophy where you have to define the meaning of answer before you can even attempt to make an answer. And then you can question wheter it really is the answer or if you are imagining it to be the answer or if an evil demon is deceiving you. Anyway, philosophy bad, math good. Definite answers are better, even if you cannot find them.

EDIT: PS, I've had mid terms worth 33% of the final grade and finals worth 50% of the final grade!

O ya. Im awesome at math. In our calc 2 class we finished integrals a month or so ago we have been doing series and all that new stuff. I will never take two sciences again. Im also good at chem lab even though my chem lab teacher is extremely hard. Our class never finishes before being an hour late. The labs were doing now is quantitative annalys crap.