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Anyone else here think cramming is totally useless? My philosophy is that I've been to classes all throughout the term, so if I don't know it by now, it's useless to try to know it. I do review concepts and theories, though, just to refresh them, but I never try to learn anything new
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In almost all of the science or math courses I've taken, I forget pretty much everything covered in class as soon as I finish the assignments because there's never anything concrete for me to latch on to and remember. So I wind up trying to teach myself the entire course in a couple of days before the exam! Never works that well, either...
However, in my engineering courses, they're always about something practical and physical and
real, which gives me something that I can actually link concepts to, and therefore remember them. I like my engineering courses.
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Originally Posted by pne /img/forum/go_quote.gif
yea its my last math course I think and I'm really hoping i will pass it. Honestly I could have tried a lot harder in the course and gotten a B but I just hate math. Looking at the equations makes me angry, it seems like a stupid waste of time to learn some random algorithm to solve a problem that we'll never come across in our future careers (engineering). Because we all know as chemical/material engineers we'll be dealing with a whole lot of imaginary roots...
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Oh, man, you're lucky. I still have the privilege of taking Math 300 if I'm fortunate enough to pass 201. A
whole class devoted to partial differential equations, hurray! Man, what possessed me to go into mechanical?
I agree with you about the math, though. I can see how some of the stuff we're learning might possibly be useful, but with the way it's taught it all seems so pointless. I'd rather learn about it in the context of practical applications, rather than learning all this junk completely independently of reality. It's frustrating.
