chemistry too
Want to be a CS major but don't think i'm smart enough
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POPHOLITDOWN
Mama I love you.
what were you doing before that? its a pretty big leap to jump from algebra to being able to survive a top 50 engineering program.
Even your med school, UC Davis cracks the top 50 engineering schools
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-engineering-schools-2014-4?op=1
POPHOLITDOWN
Mama I love you.
working pharma advertising in manhattan. shyt was soul sucking. cubicle life
interesting...how much was the salary? That sounds pretty awesome tbh. also, in order to get a job like that you never had to take calculus in your 28 years in life?
salary was fukking enormous. started at the bottom (27k) and we made it to the top (110k) when I was 25.
And no, I did not take any calculus as I was a fine art major my first time through college. I took painting, life drawing, photography...you know shyt that let me smoke the herbs and hit on the bytches when I was 18.
And no, I did not take any calculus as I was a fine art major my first time through college. I took painting, life drawing, photography...you know shyt that let me smoke the herbs and hit on the bytches when I was 18.
i dont even know where to begin with this. have you ever taken differential equations? maybe calculus 1 and two requires memorization, but higher level math classes you know... when you actually have to come up with shyt on your own...require a fair amount of ingenuity and problem solving skills.
and lol at the dude with chemistry only requires memorization. thats like saying going to the gym to get stacked only requires memorizing the lifts and nothing else...
FreshFromATL
Self Made
for the most part...
Kilgore Trout
Banned
I graduated for mechanical engineeri and serious is studying or was studying some serious physics or math, i don't remember.
The math did seem a lot harder when I was in school though. And these days a lot of the things I studied make way more sense.
POPHOLITDOWN
Mama I love you.
hi, i'm one of those black kids you say was "naturally talented" in math and guess what... there's no such thing. i wasn't out doing stupid shyt. it was studying 24-7. just like anything else, ppl who are good at anything have been doing it since they were kids.
it's also a family thing... ppl tend to do shyt their parents were. and my dad is in the IT field with a strong math background. so i had so jump on the math bandwagon as a kid.
the house was more like library. everyone hustling.. everyone reading... when we slept up and watched tv it was taken away. to this day i don't even fuq with tv because as a kid we never had a tv.
so you simply just had to disconnect yourself from society and get to study, period. that's what nerds to. and that's why they're good at what they do. you won't see a nerd out there doing stupid shyt like going to the bar everyday or keeping up with every distraction thrown at society.
as for your computer classes... most nerds study the class ahead of time. my mom (both parents nerds) used to keep us a little ahead of the class. a lot of the nerds who enter a new class are already familiar with the class. class is just to cement shyt. and after class it's back to reading. when you go to your campus library it's nerds in there. not dumb fuqs. if you want to be a success mimick success. don't worry about gangsta rap or sports or none of that shyt.
i'll share a crazy college experience with you. we had an open book econ exam. i didn't know it was open book. day of the exam i just walked in there likeand when time to start everyone pulled out their books
. i just knew i'd blown it
.
i did the best i could.
results come in and i was 2nd in the whole exam. i couldn't believe it. how do people have the book right infront of them and couldn't body it?
the guy who beat me was a super nerd from kenya called ali. i'll never forget that bytch nicca. he took my crown. he didn't beat me by much. i would've bodied him if i had the book. but i did well cause i studied 24-7 so it didn't even matter than i didn't have the book. but it just blew my mind how i was #2 and we had a pretty big class obviously mostly of white folks.
ali was my dude though. he was a short very humble dark skinned dude. i switched majors and never saw him again.
as for your major you just have to take something lighter. if you don't have a strong math background i don't know what to tell you.
i have to disagree with you here. when it comes to math, as with music, or maybe lets say languages, there ARE people who naturally gifted.
I am not one of them. However, my dad has PHD in applied mathematics and my little brother was a prodigous math student from a very, very young age.
We both grew up in the same house hold and we both were held to the same standards with regard to studying. Quite frankly, we were latch-key kids, so my parents didnt force any of us to study as long as we got A's in class. I can tell you for a FACT that i studied probably 5-6x more than my brother and got better grades in all subjects EXCEPT math.
My brother was a Johns Hopskins CTY talent search kid that scored over a 700 in 7th grade on the math section of the SAT.
He did not study one single bit for the exam. No problem sets, no practice test, no anything. He just walked in and slayed. I took the SAT 4 times in HS and it wasnt until my first semester senior year that I cracked 700. I also took about 15 practice SATs and several practice sets
See the thing is I studied super had in math and feigned liek it came easy. And since I am black and I did well people always used to think I was some type of natural genius 
By I know the truth because I grew up with someone who i know for a fact has a natural inclination toward logical reasoning and has been to do shyt like multiple 2 digit number (e.g. 47 x 78) in his head rapidly since middle school 
I know for a fact that he did not study super hard and my dad was not a tiger dad by any means. With math, there is such thing as pure, natural talent. And there is also such a thing as people who struggle mightily despite there best attempts.
Most people however fall somewhere in the middle and with the right learning method + effort they can become capable.
POPHOLITDOWN
Mama I love you.
Fuuuuuuck dude....was it really that bad?
You sure engineering is where you want go next?
110K at 25 sounds fukkin sweet
i was flying out to cali once a week for a good year and half...shyt drags on you mad hard.
plus, i came to the realization that almost all of my coworkers were dunces and simply were playing a game. you can succeed in corporate america by seemingly sucking dikk along the way. i did not want to be in an industry/environment that promoted such laurels.
but yea i am happy with what I am doing now even though my money situation grows dimmer by the day. fukk it tho money comes and goes and it is simply going at the moment. studying geomatic engineering (or surveying if you are unfamiliar).
hoping to be able to work for the NOAA or some organization that does some coastal data collection.
plus, i came to the realization that almost all of my coworkers were dunces and simply were playing a game. you can succeed in corporate america by seemingly sucking dikk along the way. i did not want to be in an industry/environment that promoted such laurels.
but yea i am happy with what I am doing now even though my money situation grows dimmer by the day. fukk it tho money comes and goes and it is simply going at the moment. studying geomatic engineering (or surveying if you are unfamiliar).
hoping to be able to work for the NOAA or some organization that does some coastal data collection.
Sane
All Star
So what are you doing with you life now? You working for NASA?hi, i'm one of those black kids you say was "naturally talented" in math and guess what... there's no such thing. i wasn't out doing stupid shyt. it was studying 24-7. just like anything else, ppl who are good at anything have been doing it since they were kids.
it's also a family thing... ppl tend to do shyt their parents were. and my dad is in the IT field with a strong math background. so i had so jump on the math bandwagon as a kid.
the house was more like library. everyone hustling.. everyone reading... when we slept up and watched tv it was taken away. to this day i don't even fuq with tv because as a kid we never had a tv.
so you simply just had to disconnect yourself from society and get to study, period. that's what nerds to. and that's why they're good at what they do. you won't see a nerd out there doing stupid shyt like going to the bar everyday or keeping up with every distraction thrown at society.
as for your computer classes... most nerds study the class ahead of time. my mom (both parents nerds
i'll share a crazy college experience with you. we had an open book econ exam. i didn't know it was open book. day of the exam i just walked in there like
i did the best i could.
results come in and i was 2nd in the whole exam. i couldn't believe it. how do people have the book right infront of them and couldn't body it?
the guy who beat me was a super nerd from kenya called ali. i'll never forget that bytch nicca. he took my crown. he didn't beat me by much. i would've bodied him if i had the book. but i did well cause i studied 24-7 so it didn't even matter than i didn't have the book. but it just blew my mind how i was #2 and we had a pretty big class obviously mostly of white folks.
ali was my dude though. he was a short very humble dark skinned dude. i switched majors and never saw him again.
as for your major you just have to take something lighter. if you don't have a strong math background i don't know what to tell you.
I don't know much about IT FAM, but I am currently in school now. And I don't believe anyone is just good at math. Math to me is a lot like martial arts. Jiu jitsu for instance, you have to have your basics locked down tight and you HAVE TO drill and practice everyday. I've seen a good friend of mine at FAMU spend six hours in the library perfecting his trigonometry. Work the basics, even go to w e free tutoring you can find, just don't give up FAM.I just took some edu.x courses and I couldn't hack it after 2 hours of studying a day for a couple months . I tried doing the assignments after practicing and I still couldn't make Huffman trees correctly or add up complementary bits. And I was just going to fall behind so there was no point in continuing when I can't grasp the basics then try yo learn more on top of that.
Honestly, I think the reason is that my math skills are really bad because a lot of the time the assignments want you to understand something that isn't explicitly taught, and that drives me insane.
So I've been thinking about just starting math over from square one, but there's also the doubt that I'm just not that good at math and that I shouldn't be wasting my time with it. I remember in school those kids who were naturally talented, I mean I 've seen guys solve week long math assignments in 10 minutes with my own two eyes, or students who could do calculus homework during a lunch break while it'd take me hours to finish the same aassignment. guys who can rationalize answers to IQ tests where I just see numbers without a relationship.
And I know it's not a race thing either because I've know black people with that natural talent for math. I just understand the whole idea that anyone can do what they want if they put their mind to it is a lie sold to people so that they can cope with their deficiencies
I'd like to do a trade if it doesn't work out, but my mom won't let me, which is a considerable obstacle because she just wants me to code but she doesn't understand that I have to pass math heavy classes to get a CS degree, I can't just graduate through coding ability.
I'm not looking for pity, just wanted opinions outside of my conscious.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
i have to disagree with you here. when it comes to math, as with music, or maybe lets say languages, there ARE people who naturally gifted.
I am not one of them. However, my dad has PHD in applied mathematics and my little brother was a prodigous math student from a very, very young age.
We both grew up in the same house hold and we both were held to the same standards with regard to studying. Quite frankly, we were latch-key kids, so my parents didnt force any of us to study as long as we got A's in class. I can tell you for a FACT that i studied probably 5-6x more than my brother and got better grades in all subjects EXCEPT math.
My brother was a Johns Hopskins CTY talent search kid that scored over a 700 in 7th grade on the math section of the SAT.
He did not study one single bit for the exam. No problem sets, no practice test, no anything. He just walked in and slayed. I took the SAT 4 times in HS and it wasnt until my first semester senior year that I cracked 700. I also took about 15 practice SATs and several practice sets
I know for a fact that he did not study super hard and my dad was not a tiger dad by any means. With math, there is such thing as pure, natural talent. And there is also such a thing as people who struggle mightily despite there best attempts.
Most people however fall somewhere in the middle and with the right learning method + effort they can become capable.
the only thing to get out of this is that anybody can do well enough in math as long as they have the motivation and dedication