/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2160189]

>Physics midterm tomorrow

>Missed a bunch of labs, studied little, not current.

>Procrastinating, 11 PM and exam starts tomorrow.

Fuck my life.

Post your debilitating character flaws.

[Anonymous No.2160192]

I don't understand social nuances.

[Anonymous No.2160197]

procrastination is my serious flaw

It gets me behind and then I under-preform. So, I'm with you man... O-chem Final tomorrow... ;_; procrastination

[Anonymous No.2160203]

>>2160197

FFFFFFFFFFF

I was telling myself I can afford to skip the labs and make-up in the midterm. FFS.

>mfw I fail the midterm.

BTW, any chance I can retain any info if a pull an all-nighter?

[Anonymous No.2160202]

>>2160192

As an addition, I hate being touched and am tactless and impulsive.

I'm fairly incapable in a social environment.

[Anonymous No.2160209]

> TA physics lab

> Notice some students rarely make it

> See this thread

> Finally know why class average is 55%

[Anonymous No.2160213]

>Don't hand in homework

>Study hard around exams and get above average marks

>Course mark evens out to make be look like an average student

>Every fucking year.

[Anonymous No.2160218]

>>2160209

I have a conflict with a higher-priority course, so I had to sacrifice one. I had to do 1st physics retroactively, which conflicts with my 3/4 year shit.

[Anonymous No.2160220]

I have a lot of trouble keeping my butt wiped properly. My underwear is always covered in skidmarks. Totally grosses my mom out when she does the laundry.

[Anonymous No.2160226]

I procrastinate and am generally a boring, unmotivated person.

[Anonymous No.2160227]

>>2160220

I feel you man.

[Anonymous No.2160229]

>>2160220

That's a hygiene failure and not a character flaw you rancid shitstain.

[Anonymous No.2160231]

Fear of success. I've flunked out of engineering three times in two different universities.

[Anonymous No.2160240]

>>2160234

Yeah, I'm 42. Your point?

[Anonymous No.2160239]

>>2160231

Jesus. How old are you now? Trying again?

[Anonymous No.2160234]

>>2160220

>my mom

>does laundry

Living at home, huh?

You know this site is 18+, right?

[I Heart You All !LoveQSWmds No.2160246]

I know what helps procrastination. Stop doing what you're procrastinating against. Do what you want with your life instead. Buuuutttt... I know you all just want love and don't want to deal with this shitty world but that isn't why you were born. You were born to suffer and I consume your suffering. So get back to work, continue suffering for our demonic cause.

[Anonymous No.2160250]

>>2160239
24. Currently unemployed. Shit's bad.

[Anonymous No.2160256]

ADHD+depression+objective

I hate myself for not being who I want to be, know I can never function outside of my capabilites, and this loops ad infinitum as no matter how hard I try my brain repels efforts for me to improve myself, or kill myself.

[Anonymous No.2160257]

>>2160246
ok...
>runs off to cry

[Anonymous No.2160258]

>>2160250

Are you in school though?

I'm 24 and doing 3rd year after a 1-year hiatus and changing my major twice.

[Anonymous No.2160271]

This thread is now also about our general academic failure. Bonus points if you're over 22+ and still a college junior.

[Anonymous No.2160276]

>>2160250

What state do you live in?

[Anonymous No.2160287]

>>2160271

I'm 22 and a freshman.

[Anonymous No.2160297]

Incredibly difficult German II final Wednesday. The study guide (with no answers) is 20 pages. Haven't even looked at it. Low B in the class. No grasp of the material that will be covered whatsoever.

Feels bad, man.

[Anonymous No.2160313]

Not /sci/ but a drafting and design major. Pretty useless in a fucked economy with a million other people trying to get the same work knowing full well that the best bull-shitter will get the work and the best drafter will end up scrubbing toilets at a wal-mart for $8 and hour.

Doing pictorial drafting class with a teacher who is more concerned with design than drafting.

2 story retail store due Wednesday.

On drawing 2 of 5.

Nothing inked.

Still prcrastinating because every time I look at the board, I wish I could use AutoCAD and get my ideas out faster with more focus on better design then making my lines look 'pretty'.

With any luck, I can be a cable repair man at bright-house (Florida).

Yay for achieving nothing of value.

Confused on life in general.

Depressed over lots of issues.

Hate the way society is ran.

Hates money in general. Barter system would be better.

So many ideas that can honestly better a community. Sad that I feel 99.999~% certain I will never see a day full of people having the ability to really better themselves.

Crosses fingers.

[Anonymous No.2160315]

>>2160287

Not bad.

I started at 20 in a crappy geography program, flunked out in 2nd year, totally disinterested and worked for a year.

Change to geophysics, lack of lot of prerequisites, so back to 1st year, drop out of calculus because I don't remember anything from HS.

>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

This is going to take a long time.

[Anonymous No.2160316]

>>2160258
I'm not in school. I'm lucky enough to be in a postition where I can go back if I want to, but I've been in a the position of only really being limited by my own intertia all my life and it hasn't worked out so well so far.
>>2160287
I live in Europe.

[Anonymous No.2160323]

>>2160271


its not really academic failure i guess but....

>dick around a lot in high school
>freshman year, fuck up classes (dont fail but a few ds and some cs, 1 a)
> sophomore year- continue to dick around
>junior year - start to realize holy crap my life is at stack (still end up with shitty grades)
>senior year- skip all the time and smoke weed, get pretty decent grades
> end up with a 2.4 (came into senior year with a 2.0 flat)
>"I'm not worried, I know I won't get into UCF or UF, but FAU pretty much accepts ANYONE with a high school diploma (my friend got in with a 2.5)
>rejected from FAU
>end up at this shithole

feels bad man, at least you old fags are at unis

good news is I'm almost done with my A.A, 1 more semester :)

[Anonymous No.2160325]

>>2160189

>10 page research paper due tommorrow, haven't started yet or done any research.
>on fucking 4chan instead of working

Fuck my life, i feel your pain OP

>>2160287
21 and engineer freshman aswell.

[Tripfagseverywhere !sTeHlULZ5E No.2160332]

>>2160189

Suck it up faggot.

[Anonymous No.2160333]

>>2160271

its not really academic failure i guess but....

>dick around a lot in high school
>freshman year, fuck up classes (dont fail but a few ds and some cs, 1 a)
> sophomore year- continue to dick around
>junior year - start to realize holy crap my life is at stack (still end up with shitty grades)
>senior year- skip all the time and smoke weed, get pretty decent grades
> end up with a 2.4 (came into senior year with a 2.0 flat)
>"I'm not worried, I know I won't get into UCF or UF, but FAU pretty much accepts ANYONE with a high school diploma (my friend got in with a 2.5)
>rejected from FAU
>end up at this shithole

feels bad man, at least you old fags are at unis

good news is I'm almost done with my A.A, 1 more semester :)

[Anonymous No.2160334]

I turn in most of my homework. I pay attention in lectures and rarely have to study in my own spare time. I pass my tests with high marks. Feels good.

[Anonymous No.2160336]

>>2160315
Here's a tip:

If you 'forgot' calculus, there's two scenarios:

1) you forgot specific things, like what the derivative of cotx is.

2) you forgot how to do calculus or what integrate/derive mean or do.

If it's the first, that's just crap rote work, if it's the second, you never really understood calculus.

There's a saying, if you can't explain something to a child, you really don't know what you're talking about. An extended version should be, and if you're trying to explain it to an adult, they'll never believe you.

[Anonymous No.2160347]

>>2160325

>10 page research paper due tommorrow, haven't started yet or done any research

That's not too bad bro. I did a 16-page evaluation of Canadian Tar Sands in 8 hours at night, though your mind really begins to bog down at 5-6 AM for some reason and progress becomes painfully slow.

[Anonymous No.2160361]

>procrastinate a little

>fall behind, feel bad about it

>procrastinate soem more because you feel bad

>fall behind even more feel shitty about it

>procrastinate because you cant do shit anymore

>procrastinate some more because you are completely depressed by now

>feel even shittier because you KNOW you are better than your whole class and the original task would take only a few hours

>fail college

>be depressed as fuck, fail in everything else

>be jealous at retards achiving more than me

>"I COULD BE SO MUCH MORE BAAAW"

>okay, I will fix things tomorrow

I think I will just do something radical, move to another town, find some dead-end job and just derp around without internet in the town, find clubs etc for a year or so, it will be like restarting the level you are on, maybe I will do this in another country(nice to be an eurofag sometimes)

[Anonymous No.2160367]

>>2160336

No bro, I never practiced my pre-calc so I was always uncomfortable doing even the basics, the theory isn't difficult I just have too many voids in the fundamentals, and I fear it's only going to get worse as I age (24 now).

I'll try to take the calculus again this summer, any tips on how to master pre-calc?

[Anonymous No.2160390]

>>2160313
I had some drawings classes too. I really suck at drawings and can't do pretty or clean things with a pen. I finished with 75%. The year after we did the same thing but with autocad, shit took a fraction on the time, looked neat and finished with 95%.

[Anonymous No.2160441]

>>2160361

I was put on probation for a year and went straight to work. Working 60 hours a week for pathetic money really does put a focus and drive back in one, I did end up making $50k that year, which helped me become more economically stable and confident.

I honestly believe expecting 17-year olds to make decisions that will affect their entire professional lives is too much. There should be at least 1-2 years more of highschool.

[Anonymous No.2160447]

>>2160347
You are inspirational. Time to get to work...

[Anonymous No.2160489]

Bumpan for failures.

Actually fuck it, I better start myself, I do have 12 hours.

[Anonymous No.2160499]

>>2160367
In our school, Pre-Calc was a joke class that was basically review, and an implicit explanation of previous concepts.

I was in it for a week or two before I was switched to AP Calc (wee for me), and one of the first things were learned was the differential function/formula - but the teacher NEVER even linked it to the traditional change in y over change in x (slope). Like that's something simple that would be explicit to someone who understands math, but from our classes point, I bet lots of kids were confused.

Also, math is sort of something you have to... get. I liken it alot to video games, as much as you can SAY about video games, it's an entirely different experience to PLAYING them, and most people can't understand the difference. Math is almost like a fetish, except normal people can learn it properly, if they figure out the relationships and things.

Back to your question, the most tips I can give are try to understand your calc and math stuff spatially and visually, like in terms of areas, volumes, and pre-existing information. People who understand math from a spatial/gaming-type perspective are inherently more confident and have a better grasp, though they can frequently be wrong with complete work as much of stuff we do today is pure rote.

I'm actually severely ADHD and depressive, but I was frequently one of the most comprehending kids in my class. I passed math, but ended up failing physics cause of the very very rote work, that just didn't really give any benefit to my understanding.

[Anonymous No.2160508]

>>2160499
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[Anonymous No.2160522]

>>2160441

actally working and DOING something is the best cure for depression, it helps tho chase away the lull, becausee the worst part of depression isnt the sadness, its the total, devastating boredom you simply cant enjoy something, you need to you something you dont enjoy just because you must

[Anonymous No.2160525]

Just spent 3 days straight working on project due next week and taking it easy.

Now I'm going to get 8 hours of sleep and feel refreshed for finals whilst everyone else has a cold and is sick.

feelsgoodman

[Anonymous No.2160532]

>Graduated high school with a 1.7 gpa
>20 years old, sophomore in college
>calculus final on thursday, not studying because i know this shit
>3.2 GPA currently
>mfw this thread

[Anonymous No.2160537]

>>2160499
>understand your calc and math stuff spatially and visually, like in terms of areas, volumes, and pre-existing information
Are there any books/materials that actually teach math this way? I have a very high spatial aptitude and I always end up thinking of math in this way, but every time I've been taught it, it's been through rote memorisation of methods and shallow descriptions of the underlying principles.

[Anonymous No.2160543]

>>2160532

>in college

>1.7 gpa in shit cool

>mfw public school

[Anonymous No.2160552]

>>2160537

Gilbert Strang has videos and linear algebra books that always look for geometric interpretations of linear algebra whenever possible.

Lecture,
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/

Book,
http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gilbert-Strang/dp/0155510053

The book can be found online easily if you don't wanna buy it.

[Anonymous No.2160558]

>>2160537
There's one book:

Visual Math - See How Math Makes Sense [GeneGeter.com]

Downloaded it a LONG time ago, but never checked it out.

It's not a Calculus book, though it may cover some Calc ideas.

The book I had to help me with calc was Master Math: Calculus. My friend and I didn't get the chain rule, then one day we hung out, went over the book I had, and it hit us like a ton of bricks. I also like this book because it's alot more concise, though I didn't use it much.

A tip might be sometimes you just have to take a break. I was playing a game with someone, they understood the other problems, but couldn't figure out *how* the derivative was the derivative for an equation, but then after talking about it, then looking back on it later, he says he got it.

[Anonymous No.2160575]

>>2160552
>>2160558
Thanks guys, much appreciated.