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14 years ago
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Some journals are personal, and some journals are business related for Kinzart. For everything else, I don't care.
Okay, that does it. I'm ready to put the hammer to my college and give up on it. I would have a better time counting how many bricks the buildings are composed of than go through another fucking Calculus course one more time.
Here's my thing. With every pass of Calculus I do, there is SOME major issue with the class. First time was because I wasn't supposed to be in it. Second time was because I had a car accident and my college's response to it is 'too bad, guess you lose more money lol!' This time my professor IS GOING TOO DAMN FAST! Jesus christ! 5 weeks in and we are already at derivatives?! What the flying fuck?!
To top it off, I am having more family issues than the latest drama infested shows on TLC that would give any director a boner from hell. So here's my big question: Why the fuck is Calculus SERIOUSLY needed for a degree in computer science, let alone that I also need II and III with a side mixture of Physics?!
The Physics I can understand to a degree, but all I want to do is programming. Not build the next fucking chess machine or invent a new electrical current system or whatever. I just want to be a programmer and that is it. I just seriously am not seeing where Calculus falls into this at all. Algebra I can see greatly because without it, the concept understanding of using variables would make no sense. Pre-Calculus (more like 'Prease go fuck yourself with that overpriced calculator') would be nice for better understanding of some of the earlier taught Algebraic concepts. After that, I just don't see it anymore.
I love how some modern commercials about anything involving college is with the parents almost forcing their kids to go to college like it's a required thing in relation to high school and what not. It just pisses me off. So in other words, because a good chance the parents themselves never went to college they want to enforce such onto the child? Where is the fucking logic in that? 'It'll improve their life style'? Bull shit unless you like paying for depression medication and eating them like it's from a Pez dispenser. It should be a choice, not a requirement, to go to college, especially not directly after high school.
So my question is if Calculus is SERIOUSLY needed for what I'm trying to get into or am I just eating another 'fuck you' sandwich from our current education system?
-Flame
Here's my thing. With every pass of Calculus I do, there is SOME major issue with the class. First time was because I wasn't supposed to be in it. Second time was because I had a car accident and my college's response to it is 'too bad, guess you lose more money lol!' This time my professor IS GOING TOO DAMN FAST! Jesus christ! 5 weeks in and we are already at derivatives?! What the flying fuck?!
To top it off, I am having more family issues than the latest drama infested shows on TLC that would give any director a boner from hell. So here's my big question: Why the fuck is Calculus SERIOUSLY needed for a degree in computer science, let alone that I also need II and III with a side mixture of Physics?!
The Physics I can understand to a degree, but all I want to do is programming. Not build the next fucking chess machine or invent a new electrical current system or whatever. I just want to be a programmer and that is it. I just seriously am not seeing where Calculus falls into this at all. Algebra I can see greatly because without it, the concept understanding of using variables would make no sense. Pre-Calculus (more like 'Prease go fuck yourself with that overpriced calculator') would be nice for better understanding of some of the earlier taught Algebraic concepts. After that, I just don't see it anymore.
I love how some modern commercials about anything involving college is with the parents almost forcing their kids to go to college like it's a required thing in relation to high school and what not. It just pisses me off. So in other words, because a good chance the parents themselves never went to college they want to enforce such onto the child? Where is the fucking logic in that? 'It'll improve their life style'? Bull shit unless you like paying for depression medication and eating them like it's from a Pez dispenser. It should be a choice, not a requirement, to go to college, especially not directly after high school.
So my question is if Calculus is SERIOUSLY needed for what I'm trying to get into or am I just eating another 'fuck you' sandwich from our current education system?
-Flame
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~saadow
A degree poses to potential employers that you've gone through a program and were able to see it through, you can demonstrate your programming skills on your resume and have a liberal arts degree. These are misconceptions people don't recall or really know. You might want a technology degree if you're aiming for a Bachelors in that field, or other subsequent degrees, but these classes, these prerequisites, are really stop-gaps to filter out people of different kinds of intelligence. I wasn't able to complete precalculus, so what I ended up doing is I shifted my major to Technical Support Help-Desk option, which took all of my credits except for one course in accounting, which I took and then finished up in 09. You may never use the skills in that course, but, the type of intelligence and work related to that course can show to a potential employer that you're dedicated and oriented in a certain direction mentally. While I can program, I can't program like you. But while you write, you might not be able to write like I can coming out of the gate. So on and so forth.
