Calculus At University Be Like...

[lepton_]

Worst exams are the ones that have 2 questions, and 6 hours to do them.

[rakhuramai]

"Reinvent calculus, starting from first principles."

That had me

[maxbaugh]

Ah this takes me back to that Calc 3 midterm where the average was 19/91 and my 26 beat 2/3 of the class.

[thecakeisalie]

"it took us professors (who have taught this course for 27 years) 9 minutes to write, so 10 minutes is excessively generous" - this hit me hard. we must've all had the same calc professors

[miguelescalantemilke]

Man, I remember getting a 60/100 in multi variable calculus. Never thought that grade would make me so happy ever

[fenilchokshi]

Looking forward for Billy doing doing data analysis work in google 😂

[soulsofwar]

I feel like the hardest part of calculus for most people, is they didn't pay attention in algebra in highschool, so their algebra skills kinda suck and it makes learning the new material hard when you don't even understand the material it builds off of

[drewz]

Math tests at university be like:

Johnny has 3 apples. He eats one. Using this information, calculate the mass of the sun

[SpinozicTroll]

My brother got messed up from uni similar to stuff like that. The math professor required the final exam to determine if you pass or fail the course which means even if you did well on the midterm and assignments but didn't do well on the final meant you would fail rather than the final exam score be added on top of your previous assignments.

My brother complained to the dean and agreed that changes need to be made but refused to accomodate him. Which means they know its nonesense but dont want to help.

That was his last course by the way that stopped him from graduation.

[daviddickey]

You forgot the part where the tests keep getting harder every year but the teacher complains about the quality of students constantly decreasing

[terdragontra]

As a grad student whose taught calculus, my whole math department tried desperately to get people to pass, but about a third of the kids just couldnt. So many are just embarassingly mathematically inept, due to terrible high school teaching (the pandemic didnt help). If the reason why the area of a rectangle is width times height is surprising to you by the time you are taking calculus, i dont want you building my bridges, sorry.

[bigboypal]

Not calculus but classical Physics (Newton) which is applied calculus. Got 100% on all tests (was the only one out of all 60 people in the class to get 100% on the last one), got 40% on the exam; top exam score was 67%. Didn't fail the course but it taught me a valuable lesson: there's a real chance you're more mature than your professor and that doesn't imply you're even mature for your age, it just means academia attracts a lot of people who shouldn't be in teaching positions.

[MrTomas]

Not Calculus, but yesterday I had a test where I had to handwrite nearly 3 A4 pages of C code, take photos, and submit it as a PDF in under 30 mins. The hardest part wasn't even knowing what to write, it was getting my hands to write it so quickly while still keeping it legible.

[jackieb]

When I was taking calc I was so afraid to see my exam grade that it would take me a week to build up the courage to look.

[himalghising]

I didn't focus on Calculus that much in high school, and graduated anyway. Now that I've joined engineering, I'm having a really hard time with calculus because every subject and every topic I'm studying has calculus in it. I've fucked up so bad that it's too late to turn back and read from the basics 😂. I can relate to this video 😂😂

[ryanparrinello]

In the past 2 years I've taken -
Pre cal
Cal 1
Cal 2
Cal 3
and am now in Diff Eq.

My experience has taught me ONE thing -
... when the professor's notes and explanation look easy - go find it online somewhere and plan for 3 hours of practice... it's gonna be a rough exam. :)

[ForTheOmnissiah]

Passing Calculus 2 in university with a B on my first try made me so proud of myself I almost literally cried. It had a LOT of content and costed a lot of my time to study.

[Juliasn]

As a person who studies mathematics, this is kinda accurate. One of the exams last semester had a close to 50% failrate. Just because the professor thought it would be a good idea to renew the entire course (real analysis), adding stuff like topology and proofs rigorous to the point of pain. It went from being the easiest course in the bachelor to one of the absolute hardest.

[markgagarine]

Just wait till billy gets to real analysis. That’s where the fun begins 💀

[MusicalInquisit]

Ah yes, the class where the average test grade is 40%. Additionally, even though there are only 7 questions on the final, you need 3 hours to complete the 22 page test (actual test I had).