/sci/ - Science & Math

>Alternate option being going to one of those shit community colleges dropouts and old people go to
What? Alot of young people go to CC. I even went before I transferred to a uni.

Why do you have such a condescending attitude towards community colleges, especially considering you're failing shit like pre-cal?

Either accept the fact that you're going to have to compromise due to your sub-par abilities or swallow your pride and work on the faulty bases you obviously have.

>>4844115
well In my opinion its a college for poor fags who are too stupid to get into College.

>>4844108
>doesn't want to go to community college
>takes precalc in post secondary

OP, if community college really were a place for retards you would fit right in with that GPA of yours.

Also,

>can't even manage a C in calc 1.
>not even acing non-math classes.

Seriously. What the fuck are you doing?

OP, I'm not the best student, far from it...

But how the fuck do you get a 1.9 GPA?

>>4844120
>too stupid to get into College
>capitalizes college like it's the fuckin' 1700s.

Not in OP's boat grade wise, but I graduated and am doing work for premed (post bacc program that is essentially for career changers) and I'd like to know if there are any excellent textbooks for precalc. I haven't taken it in forever and I need to as a pre-req. I do much better with a book in hand than I do with online resources. All help is appreciated guys, thanks

>>4844120

You have a fucking 1.9 GPA, you can't say a damn thing about anyone. Get your ass to a CC and stop trying to be a hardass.

>>4844120
You're really a pretentious cunt. I went to a CC as my senior year in high school and studied abroad at Cambridge university in England. I went to college here on full scholarship and recently got into NYU and Columbia. Fuck yourself, good luck achieving anything close to this CC grad with your GPA, retard.

>>4844108
classic cs major

>>4844108
>Geography

There's no way you'd make it. And your adviser is fucking screwing with you if he thinks you'll get anywhere with no calc, probably no stats, and shit results in other classes.

Go to CC. And fuck you for looking down on them you piece of shit.

>mfw I got a 4.0 in 2 years of community college, graduated top of my class and now have a job making $70k a year without ever attending a university or taking out any student loans

>good at programming
>shit at math
nope!
you might be a proficient codemonkey, but if you suck at math you better fucking quit while you're ahead, or get it together and stop sucking
besides, CS is to programming as auto repair is to engineering. just because you're good at one aspect of it really doesn't mean a whole lot.

>>4844206
Where do you find a job that'll pay $70k starting to someone with a 2 year degree from a CC? Genuinely curious.

>>4844225
"Networking".

>>4844206
Similar story for me.

>4.0 after 2 years at community college.
>Transfer to top-tier University, major in Chemical Engineering.
>Receive over 20K in annual scholarships upon transferring.
>Get invited to a summer program with NASA due to GPA and prof. recommendations.

>OP thinks community college is worthless

>>4844154
HOW DID YOU DO THAT
EXPLAIN

>>4844225
Wasn't starting, my starting pay was half that, I've just been promoted a number of times. I was an office assistant for a decent-sized company and now I am a manager in the financial dept.

>Go to cc for two years
>Transfer to top university
>Graduate near top of class (10k of debt only)
>Build an experiment that gets tested on the vomit comet at NASA
>Get paid to go to grad school
>Get contacted unsolicited by companies that desperately want to hire me
>Laugh at plebs who think they are superior to me because they get D averages at universities

>>4844234
>>4844234
You study. Grind that shit out, if you want it you can get it. I'll be debt free until med school kicks in. Not everyone in life is rich, not everyone can afford 4 years of college right out the gate.

Might as well do humanities at this point you dumb fuck, you're gonna need it.

Calculus (I, II, III) was piss easy. Had to take Vector Algebra, Advanced Calculus, Differential Equations, yada yada... and in the end no fucking jobs.

>Not taking all low-teir requirements at a community college

You sound stupid as fuck

I think that your adviser pointing you in the direction of geography is a subtle way of saying "Do you even know where you are?"

On the plus side, if you majored in geography, you would be able to consult a map whenever you get lost on your way home.

>>4844108

how are you guys so bad at Calc? Its so easy.

>be philosophy major
>haven't done ANY math in 8 years since leaving high school
>decide to do some math courses to supplement logic courses
>Calc I = B+
>Calc II = A-

are you even trying?

>>4844108
>>Really good at programming but math seriously fucked up my GPA
How about no.

You're good at not fucking up syntax maybe but the second you get anything remotely challenging you'd fall on your ass. Math and programming don't have a direct relation outside of basic algebra, however they both rely on the same type of logical thinking. If you can't do one, you more likely than not cannot do the other.

>geography
Maybe you can save America's children

>>4844282

>watching Prometheus
>Phd Geologist walkin in cave
>has electronic map on arm
>gets lost in cave

>Geologist lost in a cave

god this movie was dumb

why wouldn't a geologist get lost in a cave? or do they have cave survival 101 in college?

>>4844283
it's not about being bad about math, it's about unwillingness to actually study.

OP said he has a sub 2.0 GPA. you don't get that just by doing shitty in two classes, you get that by being a lazy piece of shit. i can personally attest that undergrad is all about work ethic. you stare at something long enough and you will understand it at least till the exam.

>>4844287
>Implying being a geologist means you are going to necessarily know the layout of an unexplored cave on a fucking alien planet even with a rangefinder thing
>a geologist can even get lost in a cave in fucking Tennessee if he's in the dark and tired and frightened, which he would be, as you would be
>implying this was the stupidest thing about Prometheus
>implying that scientists weren't butthurt just because two of "their bros" got scared and then eaten in the movie

>>4844295

cuz we assume geologists have some cave experience, specially when you take one on an alien planet, you expect him to be pretty savy outside

plus hes in charge of mapping out the area, and has an electronic map on his arm

so this implies hes done cave mapping before.

it would be fine if everyone got lost because the cave was complex, but every other team found their way out easily...the only team that got lost was the geologists lol

>>4844321

>in charge of mapping the cave
>everyone else uses map just fine
>geologist gets lost

lmfao, this movie

>>4844325
>>4844321
>>4844287

the geologist got lost because he was high as shit, bro. Did you miss the scene where they showed he'd hacked a fucking bong into his environment suit? He basically spends the entire movie except for five minutes when he leaves the cryo tubes on a bad paranoia high, which is why he was constantly pissed off and freaking out.