The bane of my existance

[sharan]

Damn, I hate Algebra. I volunteered to teach the next section in class today for extra credit and spent a lot of time this weekend preparing. I finally thought I'd be O.K. but almost as soon as I started talking the teacher kept asking me to prove it and wanted to start in on a complex algebra proof which is the one thing I was NOT prepared for. So I basically totally blew it. Someone else got up after that and he was having trouble too, so the teacher told him to do it tomorrow. *sigh* I can't help it if I took algebra 21 years ago and the complex algebra proofs in the book make my eyes glaze over. I wish I had time to go back and study algebra (I even bought an algebra book my Calculus 1 teacher recommended) but I'm way too busy studying Calculus right now!

My only hope now is I do well enough on the final to not blow the C I'm heading for right now, since a C will transfer to USC and I REALLY don't want to have to retake this class.

I have some stuff I've been meaning to post but the final's thursday so I'll probably be way too buried in Calculus until after that!

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You know, I had trouble with Algebra and Calculus

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I can offer any words of wisdom. I never used it after college.

Re: You know, I had trouble with Algebra and Calculus

[sharan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the frustrating thing. I KNOW I'm never going to use this stuff again. I just need to get past this to get to the only math I do expect to use again, the vectors and matrices, which I'll need for 3d programming for games. Even for that I just need to understand enough to know which functions to call;).

Well, it'll be worth it to have the Computer Science degree. It's definitely reminding me why I avoided math when I got my first bachelors, though! The final's tomorrow at least, so that'll finally be over and I get a whole week off before USC starts up again for the fall (Yeah, I know, nice long break;)).

I was planning on taking Spanish 3 next summer, but I'm starting to reconsider the wisdom of taking summer classes.

Re: You know, I had trouble with Algebra and Calculus

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

The matrix stuff is important. So's linear algebra. But really, for the most part, it's all "character building" exercises. It's your pennance for getting a computer science degree.

Re: You know, I had trouble with Algebra and Calculus

[sharan.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Well, at least after this no one will be able to accuse me of not being a 'real programmer' just because I've been stuck doing front-end web development for years;). I think I'll have proved myself! Which is really why I'm doing this to begin with.:)