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I'm approaching thirty and I want to pursue a college education, I'm interested in Chemistry. I have some doubts though. I don't think I'm smart enough, and it's been nearly twelve years since I've used anything beyond baby-tier math.

What should I do?

>> No.5060572

figure out the curriculum and download pdf's for the textbooks of the first year and the prereqs
learn that shit and then into college

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5060576

>>5060570
Or just not do it.

>> No.5061027

So, am I fucked?

>> No.5062036

>>5061027

not really but you would need to put extra effort at the beginning to get on track and exercise your brain before even entering to get onto limits and so forth (algebra, functions, logarithms, trigonometry, etc)

a lot of people in uni always switch from non scientific majors to STEM ones without any big trouble (i was in business for instance) but you would need to work hard like any other guy young or not enrolled

young people out of hs tend to be lazy because they don't have any real rush to get out or live on their own and lack the discipline to face the challenge it gets to be trained in science. if you acknowledge this and consciously make and habit out of study at home or make good annotations and pay attention in class you don't really have any disadvantage with most of the people there