One of my greatest learning laments were my failed attempts at Calculus in high school and post college.
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One of my greatest learning laments were my failed attempts at Calculus in high school and post college. By the time I got to Calculus in high school I was so burnt out, and had a terrible math teacher the year prior that one of my favorite academic interests had suffered a grievous wound.
I attempted a college Calculus course after I attained my Bachelor's degree. Leading up that attempt I took trigonometry course by correspondence and a pre-calculus course both of which I excelled at.
Got into the Calculus course then life started lifing and I was unable to complete it.
All this to say, I still want to know Calculus, even if I never use it outside of learning it.
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One of my greatest learning laments were my failed attempts at Calculus in high school and post college. By the time I got to Calculus in high school I was so burnt out, and had a terrible math teacher the year prior that one of my favorite academic interests had suffered a grievous wound.
I attempted a college Calculus course after I attained my Bachelor's degree. Leading up that attempt I took trigonometry course by correspondence and a pre-calculus course both of which I excelled at.
Got into the Calculus course then life started lifing and I was unable to complete it.
All this to say, I still want to know Calculus, even if I never use it outside of learning it.
Separate, apart but related: non-English language. I took 4 semesters of French in college and I remember effectively none of it (although, I could probably navigate a Francophone area with some difficulty), 2 years of Latin (very interesting, low in utility) in high school and a tiny bit of Spanish in middle school.
Recently, I did try my hand at learning German (parts of my family had dreams of going there) and it's easily my favorite of the languages I have attempted to learn and I want to learn more. There's a lot about it that just makes sense with regards to syntax and parts of speech.
There's a German Language group that's local-ish (former Texan scale of "local") but a ~200 mile round trip on a Tuesday night in a winter weather state is not ideal. It also helped that I grew up in a town with a not inconsequential amount of German speakers so the sounds are lifetime familiar to my ears even if I don't understand them.
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One of my greatest learning laments were my failed attempts at Calculus in high school and post college. By the time I got to Calculus in high school I was so burnt out, and had a terrible math teacher the year prior that one of my favorite academic interests had suffered a grievous wound.
I attempted a college Calculus course after I attained my Bachelor's degree. Leading up that attempt I took trigonometry course by correspondence and a pre-calculus course both of which I excelled at.
Got into the Calculus course then life started lifing and I was unable to complete it.
All this to say, I still want to know Calculus, even if I never use it outside of learning it.
@synduckate do more math. khan academy its pretty good and self paced i believe
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Separate, apart but related: non-English language. I took 4 semesters of French in college and I remember effectively none of it (although, I could probably navigate a Francophone area with some difficulty), 2 years of Latin (very interesting, low in utility) in high school and a tiny bit of Spanish in middle school.
Recently, I did try my hand at learning German (parts of my family had dreams of going there) and it's easily my favorite of the languages I have attempted to learn and I want to learn more. There's a lot about it that just makes sense with regards to syntax and parts of speech.
There's a German Language group that's local-ish (former Texan scale of "local") but a ~200 mile round trip on a Tuesday night in a winter weather state is not ideal. It also helped that I grew up in a town with a not inconsequential amount of German speakers so the sounds are lifetime familiar to my ears even if I don't understand them.
@synduckate arent you in minnesota? you should be able to find plenty of german speakers in the area, possibly even the hutterites
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One of my greatest learning laments were my failed attempts at Calculus in high school and post college. By the time I got to Calculus in high school I was so burnt out, and had a terrible math teacher the year prior that one of my favorite academic interests had suffered a grievous wound.
I attempted a college Calculus course after I attained my Bachelor's degree. Leading up that attempt I took trigonometry course by correspondence and a pre-calculus course both of which I excelled at.
Got into the Calculus course then life started lifing and I was unable to complete it.
All this to say, I still want to know Calculus, even if I never use it outside of learning it.
@synduckate math is my nemesis. My dad gave me math anxiety trying to teach me and Ive been paralyzed ever since. I got to college algebra at uni and my brain hit its ceiling. Give me the arts any day of the week
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@synduckate math is my nemesis. My dad gave me math anxiety trying to teach me and Ive been paralyzed ever since. I got to college algebra at uni and my brain hit its ceiling. Give me the arts any day of the week
But I liked math AND the arts. I was a (formerly) high achieving math student in band.
Still like them both, but I'm currently only in band.
(Still use cross multiplication a lot to figure things out, though)
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But I liked math AND the arts. I was a (formerly) high achieving math student in band.
Still like them both, but I'm currently only in band.
(Still use cross multiplication a lot to figure things out, though)
@synduckate valid! I just dont have a brain for math
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@synduckate valid! I just dont have a brain for math
Nothing wrong with that. You have a brain for arts and we need those, rather desperately..
What of art(s) do you do?
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