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>failing trigonometry for the third time now

>> No.9330476

>>9330178
hit the books fgt

>> No.9330513
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9330513

>Calculus class is about half the size it was when we started
>85 average
>Show up every single day but have done the nightly homework maybe three times
>Spend 2 hours reading the chapter and doing practice problems the night before each test
How is this harder than high school? You memorize processes and apply them. It's the same. Why is everyone quitting

>> No.9330611

>>9330513

Its not the classes
Its the life stress that comes along with moving out of your parents home into a new city, not knowing anyone, frequent social isolation, frequent poverty and malnutrition, poor living spaces, etc etc.
Basically year 1 of university is "Here's how to become an adult". Also the grading is different (e.g. 25-25-50) for midterm-midterm-final rather than a bunch of smaller tests.

>> No.9330643

>>9330611
lunch maids make all of your meals
all housing issues taken care of by res life
don't have to work a job, just focus on piss easy gen eds
don't have anyone to take care of but yourself
>being an adult is so hard

>> No.9330674

>>9330611
>Leaving parents house
Oh yes. How I'm getting by without my families' emotional reaction to everything being my problem i'll never know
>Frequent social isolation
I mean it's decent but nothing can beat the social isolation of back home
>Poverty and malnutrition
I've worked for 2 years and saved it all because I had no girl to spend it on. All my hobbies are pirated. Next
>Poor living spaces
Dorms are comfy

This place is paradise, I never go home. I don't even like calling home "home". this IS home now

>> No.9330675

>>9330611
Figure out how to have pieces of the material always on your mind. Also, trig? Seriously? Soh Cah Toa tardcraft

>> No.9331010
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9331010

>mfw top third of my class in the Navy Nuclear Program with a 10th grade education because younger me was a lazy faggot

>> No.9331039

>>9330178

>haven't taken a math class in 9 years because I joined like Army like a fucking retard
>highest math I ever took was Elementary Algebra II
>Tested into Pre-calculus I & II which is just College Algebra and Trigonometry in the same semester
>decided to take it because /sci/ convinced me anything less would make me a brainlet (plus I didn't want to wait a full year before being able to take Chemistry)
>I now have a C in the class, need a 48 on my final to get a C and pass

Please tell me having a full semester to do Calc I will be easier than having to do College Algebra and Trig in the same semester. I feel like this would have been an easy A if I had a full semester to do trig.

>> No.9331043

>>9331039
>listening to neo-/sci/
It all makes sense now

>> No.9331061

>Never took precalc in HS
>Passed placement test to take Calc 1 in college
>Passed Calc 1
Still no clue what precalc covers

>> No.9331087

>>9331061
Other then Algebra and Trigonometry; Steward's Pre-Calculus book just covers the summation notation, binomial theorem and the introduction of a derivative.

>> No.9331227

>>9331039
T-Thank you for your service.

>> No.9331247

>tfw failing the 9th grade for the 10th time now