My College makes me feel like a Dumb4$$

This and last year I have been finally starting to understand arithmetic and now I even like doing the problems, learning the equations and getting the RIGHT answers, even if I have to do it all over again. Our teacher was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I didn't think that was going to affect me. Well it did, because I learned the equations and I've done the problems numerous times, but on every test and just so happens on the final as well, something always F**** me up


FRACTIONS, WHAT THE HELL IS THE DERIVATIVE OF 6/x^4??!!

I may have done most of the problems right (if I did the stinking fractions right) and then I'd get a 48 out of 72 on the test, and the teacher said he's adding a BIG curve because he sucks, means well but it's his first time teaching. So If I somehow pass, all is well except for no A or even B, which I should be getting. If I fail, I'm even more pissed because I know this shit and I don't want to take it again. To top it off, I may be dropping my major or retaking my c++ class, and I withdrew from a class also, the only thing I'm getting a nice grade in is Art class. This college makes me feel so stupid, but I know I'm not. I'm not leaving here, but what the hell am I supposed to do now about my future prospects? For those who read all of that, Kudos.

the derivative of 6/x^4 is -24/x^5

think of it as 6x^(-4) then take the derivative as you normally would. so bring down the exponent and subtract 1 from it: (6*-4)x^(-4-1) = -24x^-5 = -24/x^5

the derivative of 6/x^4 is -24/x^5

think of it as 6x^(-4) then take the derivative as you normally would. so bring down the exponent and subtract 1 from it: (6*-4)x^(-4-1) = -24x^-5 = -24/x^5

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way to help with his pain, burrito.

Man, bummer about your school being like that... However, college is not supposed to be easy. If you have a bad teacher, be prepared to learn on your own. Whether that means going to your school's tutoring center or teaching yourself. I had a biomechanics class this past semester with a HORRIBLE teacher. I went to the class religiously till the first test, which I got a 59% on. After that I decided to just study on my own, showed up just to tests and ended the class with a B.

As for derivative or integral fractions, just think of the denominator as a exponent and move it to the top :)


BTW, if your teacher curves a math class grade... i'll be oober jealous. I had to work my ass off in all of my calc and other math classes and never got a curve.

Math is the reason I could never have been an engineer. I hated derivatives, and couldn't believe I had to learn them for a business major. Failed every test and somehow the prof passed me.

at my university they will never curve marks in engineering, i think that might be the same all over ontario, or all over canada. i think it has to do with acreditation. anyways i think you've got to try to not care, what's the worse that'll happen? you'll fail the course and have to retake it? well then you'll just add time to your degree and have to pay a bit more for school. honestly an employer won't see that and they certainly won't care.

i just wrote my last exam of the semester and i have no idea how i did because i guessed MANY questions. it was multiple choice and it was on some random information that you had to memorize. luckily for me someone pulled the fire alarm 25 minutes into the exam and i got 8 correct answers from that that (literally everyone was exchanging answers) would have otherwise been wrong.

my college math makes me feel like a total dumbass too. i just failed miserably in math 103 (remedial math) but got a B+ in my honors english class. i wish they would just accept like i have that math is something i just can't do and let me continue on with my education.

just gotta study hard, go in for extra help and hope to god that works.

the derivative of 6/x^4 is -24/x^5

think of it as 6x^(-4) then take the derivative as you normally would. so bring down the exponent and subtract 1 from it: (6*-4)x^(-4-1) = -24x^-5 = -24/x^5

That shits like chinese to me. Guess thats why I drive a truck and didn't go to college. :icon16:

Don't mean to bring up the thread again but I'm glad to say I got a C in the class, and I took an incomplete in my c++ class. B+ in Art, what I expected.

The thing about math, I think is how you learn it at a younger age, grade to how much adapting to the harder stuff will affect you and I was always bad with fractions because I probably didn't pay attention back then. I have got to remember that negative thing now.

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I would but then Wings over Albany wouldn't come back for meal swipes. That's just blasphemy.

i got an A- in calc, which means i really messed up the exam, well it's messed up for me, i found the course rather easy but i got below a 75% on the exam. my other marks were B- (mechanics, should be an A+, i'm going to retake it during the summer to raise my marks, won't take any effort and i won't really have to go to class, just do all the practice problems in the book) C (chemistry, didn't do anything in that class and i screwed up the exam) and a D (intro to engineering, didn't to the assignments, my team screwed me on the big project, and i don't think i did well on the exam)

this term's not looking too good though, i've got linear algebra which shouldn't be that hard, differential eqn's and series which is a second year math course but they teach it to the engineers in first year, physics which is alot of work, lots of labs, and it's tough, basic programming, c++, shouldn't be hard, if you've done any programming before it's pretty easy, and basic marketing which looks like fun but lots of work.

My c++ class was leaps and bounds harder than my c++ high school course and even way tougher than my community college visual basic classes. It was kind of ridiculous because there was such a weird bell curve in my class. Our lab TA showed us.

What was your engineering project and how did it get messed up?

I hate math. That's why I'm a writer.

i had to reverse engineer something and improve it. so i had to get something i can hold in my hand and add a feature. so i was in st catherines (6+ hours away from school) for university rowing championships during the last 3 days of the design phase. we hadn't done anything by that time and the two people left it until the last minute, made some crappy thing that didn't look like anything, didn't modify something just made something really simple and really stupid. then when it came time to do the drawings i couldn't get ahold of the guy who did the 3d drawings, he lost the solid model file (we use pro-e) and i couldn't get the 3d printout from him so that i could measure it and get the dimentions myself. so we didn't have the drawings, our object was crap and not designed according to the assignment, and i'd be willing to bet that our writup was crap because i know who was doing it and i know she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. i was away for something while she was writing it.