/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14751845
>Be me
>Take test
>Miss one negative sign
>Fail test
Fuck you too prof

>>14751845
It's okay, just find a different professor. There's plenty to go around.

My best math professor was also a fucking asshole when it came to grading. The worst example I can think of was when they took 10 points off a question for a poorly drawn diagram even though the answer was right

>>14751845
>shitty ass "programming" course
>professor doesn't hold a lecture
>doesn't explain shit
>holds meetings instead
>exam is a group project
>have to hold powerpoint presentation every 2 weeks about the project in addition to weekly status reports
>no technicals allowed
>only motivation, project topic, marketing type bullshit
>constantly complains about projects not being gaymified
>constantly criticises powerpoint layout
>"this font color doesn't look nice when the title color is already xyz"
>exam is another "results" presentation
>doesn't give a shit about anything technical
>just the same bullshit again
>don't even have to submit program code
I don't get it. If they think that presentations are such a big part of modern cs why the fuck don't they just include a separate technical presentations course? Why the fuck are courses like this? I just wanted to learn something, not be some fags powerpoint bitch.

What's a good way for a mathlet to into to math? I barely know my timestables and only got as far geometry in highschool

>>14751961
Read books. Do every problem in the book.

>>14751980
Which books would you recommend that show real world examples of how to apply more sophisticated maths? I know I'm def a major factor to blame why I never learned it well, but also feel like my teachers were pretty shitty because they never really explained how doing algebra and etc would be necessary later on in life. They just taught the process of the equation and instructed us to memorize it to pass the tests so that they appeared as successful teachers and could keep their jobs

>>14751845
>philosophy as my second bachelor
>12 page essay on humes enquiry on human understanding
>Prof fails me because of the „unacceptably sloppy form of the paper“
>it had 2 typos
Honestly I would’ve probably won the case if I went to the department but instead I just renamed the paper and turned it in with some other prof correcting it the next semester

>>14751885
One of my first maths professors would mark any question wrong if you didn't solve it the exact same way she did.

>>14752272
>she
I think I found the problem anon

>be me graduate teaching assistant
>professor keeps asking me to cover her classes
>keeps randomly not showing up
>decides to go AWOL without telling anyone
>files for a medical leave out of nowhere
>get asked to teach her entire class on short notice
>find out later it was just her feeling burnt out, not anything serious
>get paid the same TA amount to teach her fucking class

She never even thanked me when she came back despite it stressing me out, ruining my schedule, and causing me to get behind on all my actual research work.

>physics lab
>we forgot to take a measurement
>next class I'll tell the professor waiting for him to take it with humor
>"you're morons, I told you to measure everything"
>:0

>>14752014
There is little to no memorization in math pre-calculus. (Even then you can derive most of it from theorems)
For example solving basic equations in one variable, the "memorizations" you need are just the laws of associativity, commutativity, and equality. The solutions flow freely

>be in genetics class
>part of our final is revealed to be a power point presentation about an assigned enzyme and possible effects on health should there be a defect
>while my presentation covered all the pertinent info the prof gives me a C+
>wasn't artistically pleasant and did not make use of photos, graphics, and colors
Damn prof suddenly wanted us to be graphic designers or some shit. Class average was dropped down to C cause she docked marks off for power point appearances.

>>14751885
>>14752272
Protip: If you went to a university where your professor is the one doing the grading rather than a grad student, then your professor likely isn't exactly the cream of the crop

>>14753097
Missed opportunity. You should've not pissed everyone off by being passive-aggressive and asked for letters of recommendation from her and whoever was running your physics program saying that you stepped in and have experience lecturing a full course. Could make a difference if you stay in academia

>>14753523
Nah I had a professor who always did his marking himself (although he never taught first or second year undergrads) and his logic was that it was important that he should take responsibility and do it himself

>have to draw a stack diagram for an assembly program as homework
>decide to only label the addresses of lines where something happens because theres literally 40 spaces of junk data, so that's 320 useless digits to write
>diagram is correct, but get 0 credit because I didn't label everything
The fun part though
>learn my lesson that prof is a soulless automata
>same question comes up on the midterm
>ace it
>actually, I'm only person to even pass the midterm because the entire class did what I did on the homework
He also gave an entire class, myself included, Cs because the old program we had to use wouldn't work properly and nobody could do the final project

>>14752014
Any pre calculus book

>>14753137
if you ever become significant or noteworthy enough in your field that your discoveries need to be explained to the higher ranking executives who hold the purse strings, you will find that that they all have the attention span of jr high school kids and that if you're not able to be entertaining and succinct then they won't listen to you no matter how earth shattering your science is. i am called on to give briefings to bigwigs fairly regularly and my presentations look like they were made for the children's edition of USA Today.
you will never need to pick up these skills if you plan on having an unimportant career in the sciences, but if you ever plan to make waves then you will need to get some communications skills beyond regurgitating exclusionary schizophasiac jargon to colleagues.

>>14753097
heh
>develop close platonic relationship with undergrad professor to the point where she calls herself my second mom several times
>tells my own mother that she wants to co-parent me
>go visit her two separate times with about a 3 month gap after I move back in town after I finish my masters (with the intention of her helping me find work or her with research)
>complains about Trump both times and never lifts a finger to help me out
lmao

>>14751845
seven (7)

>>14754100
you had sex with her, right?

>>14753740
>you will never need to pick up these skills if you plan on having an unimportant career in the sciences
This is my intention. It was just a simple 1st year genetics class. Curriculum outline never mentioned a power point. It was more like she added it on to the final paper last minute.

>>14751845
>Graduate level CS course
>over 90% of grade is based on multiple choice questions because prof is too lazy to grade anything

>>14755564
Nope, and she's crazy so that would have been a bad idea and weird. I did lust after her for a while since she looks 10 years younger than she is. Funnily enough at the time, she had another younger guy friend a few years older than me and they would (platonically) go out sometimes but he wanted to fuck her and didn't like me being around her.

>>14751961
>>14751980

>>14751845
She just wanted you to fuck her anon...

>>14755890
Grade in graduate level is a meme anyways.

>>14751845
We had some design for manufacturing module where she had fucked the exam up so badly that everyone who simply bothered to sit the exam was given a minimum of 60% to sweep it under the rug

>>14756837
Retard. Do you wonder why she didn't help?

>>14753137
>Damn prof suddenly wanted us to be graphic designers

No. You just had to not be a sperg with zero self awareness for a whole 10 minutes. Presentations aren't information dumps

>>14751961
Start with khan academy. You can start math lessons back from kindergarten and work your way up to college level.

>>14759832
Not him but can you explain to me why? I have difficulties understanding others and socialising

>>14751845
>math professor
>couldn't say "matrix"
>did multiple courses covering "matresses"

>>14759838
damn newfag fukken GOTTEM

>>14760069
Would you like to take our matrissess sir only for ten dollar

>>14760069
kek

>>14757479
What should i study if im interested in game theory and applied math with a background in computervscience?

>>14760069
*pomf*
What are we gonna do on the metric space, onii-chan?

>>14751845
>First day in uni
>Introductory lecture
>Everyone outside waiting
>Professor is 30 minutes late
>Professor enters and starts talking about how this is no longer highschool and this is the real world, lecture hall doors close on time, zero tolerance for being late, not his problem if a car crashes into us, etc

>>14751845
This meme sucks because math is just an attempt to explain logic but it has many flaws and unexplainable aspects
Thats also true for those other fields, but certain things are proven, while the very core of math is just our own flawed interpretations.

Also in general Ijust hate how mathfags always think theyre so smart then when you talk to them theyre literally only good at math and have mitwit tier knowledge about anything else. Pisses me off. They easily get offended too because it hurts their fragile egos when you inform them

>>14766355
Can't you leave if the professor doesn't show after the first 15 minutes? Shit situation if it's the first day. I had a general bio teacher regularly show up 10 minutes late every class and get upset when we were getting ready to leave, then she would expect us to stay a few minutes after class to make up for lost time and got upset when we left. Clearly her first class.