/sci/ - Science & Math

I have to know as much as possible to be ready for the following class

>Calculus 1(Study of piecewise, power, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their applications; algebraic combinations of functions; composition of functions; inverse functions; transformations.)

I never took Calculus in high school. I think I had a C in "Advanced" Pre-Calculus, and I haven't been in school for ~3.5 years. Can I learn all of it to be ready for a Calculus 1 class in less than 2 months or should I take a remedial class?

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I really think it's the coolest shit and I love the idea of learning it, but I just can't focus on it when I actually buy a physics text book from a second hand store and try to read it. I just start to think "why am I reading this? I'm not in university so nobody would give a fuck about me knowing this stuff because I won't have a stupid degree, and it would take me years to become such an expert that could do something special with the knowledge so why bother...?" and I just stop. I have books sitting on my shelf that I bought specifically to learn all of this science and mathematics, and I've barely cracked open half of them. I feel like a retard.

It hurts because I can imagine the possibilities. I can see that glimmer of what I can be with all of this knowledge just being handed to me, these huge textbooks and the internet with all of this shit just sitting right in front of me ready for me to absorb and become some awesome person, but it all goes away when the reality that I can't focus on the details sets in. I hate it.

Even with Khan Academy, none of it sticks and it bores me. I try to learn all of the math up to Pre-Calculus and it bores me, because I know that none of it is interesting, and all of the cool stuff is the high level stuff that will take me forever to get to.

I'm 20 years old, taking Fundamental Math 3, and I am 5 hours into this homework assignment and I still don't understand anything. I just finished crying in my bathroom out of frustration and now I'm posting this thread because the math (basic algebra) just doesn't click, and now I'm suicidal. /sci/, I can't fail out of college because of math. I would rather end my own life than to be known as a failure for the rest of my life. what do :(

How hard is it to get a job in the Space industry? I am looking at SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, or Maybe NASA. Is Aerospace good or would MechE be better? SystemsE?

I have a few years to decide.

>MFW Ordered a rubiks cube
>Still has not arrived
>I probably missed the mail guy
>I have resulted to solving imaginary rubiks cubes in my head and I keep forgeting the placement of the colours

>What does this have to do with science?
Its vaugely related to math and you guys seem to like abstract puzzles.

What overwhelms me is the fact that it's natural.
>my face when trapped in a universe factory

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