differential equations and series

has anyone ever taken this course? it's a second year math course that they give to engineers in first year at my university. it wouldn't be such a bad course if i knew what the hell was going on. i'm given some stuff and told to solve it, the only problem is that i don't know what the hell i'm supposed to find, and my prof sucks. anyways, i'm going to try and figure it out and get some help from people, i'm usually really good at math but this stuff eludes me.

i took it last semester and am taking it again this semester. it was just alot of things to remember and processes you need to go through. if i had done the homework and went to class i probably wouldnt be taking it again.

like any class just go, listen, understand, and do the homework.

damn? they're giving you diff eq.s first year? Round these parts, you dont take that till 4th semester.

yeah, here they give it in 4th semester to everyone except the engineers, the course code is like MATH 2007, whereas mine is MATH 1005, but it's the same course.

When I was in school, I remember taking that first year as well. If I recall, your engineering courses, even the early ones, will utilize differential equations and integration. Ahh... the school life of an engineer... I don't envy you...

I remember when I took that course over a summer. It was all compressed into 4 weeks of class. God that was awful. Good thing I'll probably never use it.

I got a D in that course. I half ass-ed my hw at best, rarely paid attention in lecture, never paid any attention to the Chinese TA during recitation, didn't realize I had a second recitation for a few weeks into the semester, I never got 1 test question right, my first test was a 75%, and they went downhill from there, I don't know what my grade on the final was, but it was below 50% (and the professor graded VERY leniently.) So good fucking luck! :thumbsup: