^@%^$^$6 Calculus

[bigben]

Will someone please explain to me why I am putting up with this bullisht calculus. I want to be a philosophy and arabic major, but Duke University seems bent on pulling me down by making me take some bullisht class where the teacher is mean as hell and I don't understand anything we are doing.

I mean, I am going to be put on probation by my scholarship commitee because of this stupid class.

When, why, where will I use this SH!T????

 

[Electric Amish]

Calculus Rules!

If you can force the colleges to not make you take Calculus, could you try and get them to not make us science majors take Philosophy??

I use a lot of Calculus. Calculating area under the curve is very handy.

 

[OS]

If it is just a basic calc class, just suck it up and study it. As mentioned before, us science/engineering majors have to take philosophy and other fluffy classes like that, which is probably the same reason they make you take calc.

 

[StageLeft]

I totally feel your pain bigben - from the other way. As the last two people mentioned science grads have to take those goddamnable frigging arts classes - and unlike you guys who can take classes like "biology for arts" and crap, we have to take your real courses like anthropology, french, and english. GRRR

You don't have it very bad. My roomate used to be in arts and he'd bitch about having to take a bio class that was catered to arts students. Meanwhile I had to take several full pain-in-the-ass arts classes.

 

[OS]

<< When, why, where will I use this SH!T???? >>



I guess I should mention that I use calc every day.

 

[Marty]

For me its the opposite. I'm an undecided engineer (prob. CS/CE/EE) and I'm taking &quot;Marx Nietzsche, Freud&quot; right now. Its a terrible class - its mostly philosophy and stuff, and you don't even get to look at the the main things these guys were saying. Tedious and boring, I hate it! :|

Marty

 

[perry]

A college graduate is supposed to have a well rounded edumacation. Why else do us Engineering majors have to take such trivial classes, like english and history? I kinda enjoy my english classes as much as I moan &amp; groan about em. Kinda opens my eyes to new perspectives and different ideas.

Same with Calculus. It teaches you a new way to think, different from 2 + 2 = 5. Just to open your eyes and make you understand that there is more to the world than just sitting around thinking about why the sky is blue.

 

[ApacheXMD]

I'm sure some kind of 4th order differential equation will explain why the sky is blue

-patchy

 

[chess9]

If you got through Logic classes, you can get through Calc. The hard part is doing all those homework problems. Do those and you will skate.

 

[OS]

I will say though that it's probably easier for us math/engineering/science people to take arts/language/humanities classes than it is for the arts/language/humanities people to take math/engineering/science classes. Those liberal arts classes are so. . . forgiving In liberal arts-ish classes, you can not read assigned books and still BS your way to an ok grade, where as you can't do the same for the math/science classes.

 

[rahvin]

yea arty majors usually have a hard time with that studying and understanding thing. They are good at BS'ing and that doesn't work in calc...