I just spent my afternoon drawing gobs of Lewis dot structures for chemistry. It was oddly calming.
Now that I'm a TA, it is incredibly amusing to watch people draw the Lewis structure of water as HO2 with double/triple bonds between the hydrogen and the two oxygens.
I just spent my afternoon drawing gobs of Lewis dot structures for chemistry. It was oddly calming.
Now that I'm a TA, it is incredibly amusing to watch people draw the Lewis structure of water as HO2 with double/triple bonds between the hydrogen and the two oxygens.
Wouldn't that be H- ( : O : )= ( : O : ) ?
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273 is one of those numbers you should know if you're doing physics or chemistry
273
8.314
6.02x10^23
6.63x10^-34
3x10^8
1.6x10^-19
9.11x10^-31
1.67x10^-27
Out of these I only recognize avogadro's number.
It's a good thing I want to be a lawyer!
I got the Kelvin conversion, Planck's constant, and the speed of light
And also I know a few of those to greater precision than L|ama posted
so do I, but good luck getting data accurate to more than 3 significant figures outside of a proper research lab
Pretty sure you can always use all the sig figs of the speed of light, because meters and seconds are both defined by it
At least that's what my chem prof said this week and it sounded cool
Yeah, c is a defined quantity (along with ε0 and μ0), but going to 9 significant figures in a calculation when you only have the wavelength measured to 3 sf is a waste of time
my spanish teacher last year was all "2 years of foreign language are required to graduate, but if you want colleges to actually consider you, take 4 or 3"
is this true? am i fucked if I dont take 3 or 4 years of a language?
Not at all, I'm pretty sure nobody cares that much, unless instead of taking Spanish you had a study hall or did some obviously trivial class. She just wants you to keep taking her class. :P However, you will be required to take 2 years of a foreign language at most colleges if you didn't take 4 years of a single language in high school or you can't place out of one with an AP or SAT II class.
I thought pre-calc was way harder than actual calculus
might've just been that I had a really shitty teacher for the former and a really good one for the latter though
I agree, actually, in Calculus you get a graphing calculator and you don't have to do as much algebra. At least for Calculus I, I assume it gets significantly more difficult as you go upwards.
my spanish teacher last year was all "2 years of foreign language are required to graduate, but if you want colleges to actually consider you, take 4 or 3"
is this true? am i fucked if I dont take 3 or 4 years of a language?
This is complete bullshit. You only need 2 years. 3 or 4 can't hurt, and might help under some circumstances for foreign language graduation requirements, but you don't need 3 or 4.
edit: FWIW, 3 years of highschool German was enough for me to complete my UCI foreign language requirement without having to test out of it or take any college classes. Check the colleges you want to get into (if you have any at this point that are on a short list).
its some super, super basic math class for my program.
So basic that you can't test out of it? Here I am thinking about how I would have to kill myself if I were taking introductory English at my community college, I don't know what I would do in your class...
So basic that you can't test out of it? Here I am thinking about how I would have to kill myself if I were taking introductory English at my community college, I don't know what I would do in your class...
I don't think I can test out of it. I could maybe get credit for it from previous courses but... fuck it, easy 100%, it will inflate my grade average. This program is really competitive for jobs.
using graphics calculators for calculus is a pretty bad idea if you're going to continue doing maths, these days I mostly use it for checking that experimental results have the right graph shape before doing the full analysis
Ha, I got 1.3 on my oral exam just now (That's basically an A, dunno how things are graded in America).
Yet I can not help but feel sad. The better I fare now the more painful it'll be once I finally drop out because of some stupid bullshit like stats.
In fact, I feel like a prize cow. Everyone makes remarks about my good looks but in the end I'll still be butchered.
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edited September 2010
I feel pretty good in my decision to drop my math/physics classes and change my major after reading how my friend failed the first math test in that same class. This being my friend who passed last semester with an easy A, and who does nothing but study.
I'm also really happy I don't have to deal with the math anymore. I just didn't like it.
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edited September 2010
FlatEric, what have you going to focus your studies towards now?
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FlatEricLeaves from the vine, Falling so slowLike fragile, tiny shells, Drifting in the foamRegistered Userregular
edited September 2010
I am 3 classes away from a simple Liberal Arts degree with a focus on math/engineering.
After I graduate, I'm going to focus on just getting a decent paying job with that and getting my own place.
I also have something I'm going to try out in the meantime which I may or may not have any success in. If I do, it could potentially become a career, but that remains to be seen.
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edited September 2010
Okay, so that's a #2, large fries, large Dr. Pepper, and an apple pie.
That comes out to $∞Σn=1((1/e^n) + (1/n[n+1]))
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using graphics calculators for calculus is a pretty bad idea if you're going to continue doing maths, these days I mostly use it for checking that experimental results have the right graph shape before doing the full analysis
Well we have to be able to do the problems analytically, and he's really nitpicky about the work, it's not like he's letting us just use the dy/dx button. Although I'm pretty shitty at making graphs without a Calculator so maybe I should work on that.
I am 3 classes away from a simple Liberal Arts degree with a focus on math/engineering.
After I graduate, I'm going to focus on just getting a decent paying job with that and getting my own place.
I also have something I'm going to try out in the meantime which I may or may not have any success in. If I do, it could potentially become a career, but that remains to be seen.
Pretty much what I did. Graduated with a degree in Applied Math in May. Didn't know what I wanted to do, just applied to a ton of jobs in all different fields, and took one of the two I got that sounded interesting. So far so good.
In hindsight I sometimes think it would've been cool if I had focused a bit more on some CS related stuff I had been doing at school and pursued a job at one of the many cool tech related startups in the city, but whatever, I have time to decide later.
Oh, except, because I'm in NYC I can't afford my own place. I have to share with Craigslist randos. Even though I make good money.
Man, out of 35 people only 5 people got this one biology quiz question right. Thankfully I was among that five. My teacher was pretty dumbfounded, and of course the people who got it wrong were in arms about the question even though it was covered explicitly in our notes the day before.
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I had a meeting with the financial aid lady today about studying abroad in London next semester
It's not exactly a sure thing, but it seems pretty likely!!
Grats! I am looking into a summer abroad program that goes from London to Italy, for 2011. So flipping excited. A full semester though? That'd be awesome as hell :^:
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Now that I'm a TA, it is incredibly amusing to watch people draw the Lewis structure of water as HO2 with double/triple bonds between the hydrogen and the two oxygens.
Wouldn't that be H- ( : O : )= ( : O : ) ?
see, i am terrified of this happening to me
this math course is so easy its going to sabotage me
I don't think when i do these operations
I dont know what the fuck that is
At least that's what my chem prof said this week and it sounded cool
oh, as primes? well that's slightly harder but still almost completely useless
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ε0 is 4pi x 10^-7, and c^2=1/(ε0 x μ0) so you can figure them all out from remembering two
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I got an f on my last pre cal b test
So did everyone else!
We can do corrections though, so that's good
Calc 2 it wasn't really necessary at all but there were time in Calc 1 that it would have helped.
its some super, super basic math class for my program.
This is complete bullshit. You only need 2 years. 3 or 4 can't hurt, and might help under some circumstances for foreign language graduation requirements, but you don't need 3 or 4.
edit: FWIW, 3 years of highschool German was enough for me to complete my UCI foreign language requirement without having to test out of it or take any college classes. Check the colleges you want to get into (if you have any at this point that are on a short list).
i once had to convert a fraction into a percentage. On a college test.
(I had done calc in high school but only needed the most basic math class for my artsy major)
I've done calc in university, differential equations, statistics, numerical methods
...yeah i think can do fractions and factoring
I don't think I can test out of it. I could maybe get credit for it from previous courses but... fuck it, easy 100%, it will inflate my grade average. This program is really competitive for jobs.
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I like my philosophy classes where I write papers defending hedonism.
I'm getting kinda sick of differential equations though, so messy
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Yet I can not help but feel sad. The better I fare now the more painful it'll be once I finally drop out because of some stupid bullshit like stats.
In fact, I feel like a prize cow. Everyone makes remarks about my good looks but in the end I'll still be butchered.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
I'm also really happy I don't have to deal with the math anymore. I just didn't like it.
After I graduate, I'm going to focus on just getting a decent paying job with that and getting my own place.
I also have something I'm going to try out in the meantime which I may or may not have any success in. If I do, it could potentially become a career, but that remains to be seen.
nah I'm just kidding, I have no idea what career I even want
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That comes out to $∞ Σ n=1 ((1/e^n) + (1/n[n+1]))
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"were going to need to see confirmation of enrollment".
I gave this to you, 3 months ago. You needed it to even approve this loan which we are discussing. I don't understand why you need to see it again.
"im sorry sir those are our procedures"
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Pretty much what I did. Graduated with a degree in Applied Math in May. Didn't know what I wanted to do, just applied to a ton of jobs in all different fields, and took one of the two I got that sounded interesting. So far so good.
In hindsight I sometimes think it would've been cool if I had focused a bit more on some CS related stuff I had been doing at school and pursued a job at one of the many cool tech related startups in the city, but whatever, I have time to decide later.
Oh, except, because I'm in NYC I can't afford my own place. I have to share with Craigslist randos. Even though I make good money.
also my teacher in that class kind of was a dick
one i really enjoyed was functions of a complex variable
who knew you could do crazy hard integrals in such simple ways using complex variables!
also math classes with lots of proofs were not my thing
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Much love for Mechanics. Even though I'm not that good with the vector stuff.
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It's not exactly a sure thing, but it seems pretty likely!!
Grats! I am looking into a summer abroad program that goes from London to Italy, for 2011. So flipping excited. A full semester though? That'd be awesome as hell :^:
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It's a full semester's worth of credits in like, a 10 week program! Still pretty exciting though