Blue Smartr GPA Hardr Spring 2014: Wtf, why haven't you graduated edition

[Lucki]

Human Aspect in CyberSecurity - B

[BerenTebogo]

Graduating today Summa Cum Laude with degrees in applied math and physics. Not bad for a high school dropout. Feelsgoodman.jpg

[AidenCarby]

Congratulations man

[Mertron]

grats sath

also the thread says to gpa harder but i am already gpaing as hard as i can



grad school is ez

[Jaxzer]

Taking Cal 2 (beginning with integrals) and the second part of Java this summer. Any advice on Cal 2? My Cal 1 was shaky.

[Vandole]

Any advice on Cal 2?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

It absolutely saved my life. I'll personally be in cal 4 in the fall.

[Jaxzer]

Thanks, should be useful for the take home quizzes we have every week. Good luck with Differential Equations.

[Fr34k]

Seconding Wolfram Alpha, I loathed Calc 2. Once you finish that class, Calc 3 & 4 are a breeze. I'm taking Linear Algebra / Differential Equations over summer.

Vandole you're going to start seeing a lot of physics applications towards the end of Calc 4. Work, Flux, Vector Fields, etc. It took me a little while to figure out what to set the bounds of integration to for double / triple integrals but once you get that down the rest of the class isn't that bad.

As for this semester, I would say I did ok.

Calculus IV - B
Civil Engineering I (Statics) - B
Electrical Engineering 1 (Programming for Engineers) - A

Didn't think I would like programming but it wasn't too bad.

[SamanosukeShiva]

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

It absolutely saved my life. I'll personally be in cal 4 in the fall.

Wow thanks

[Deadgye]

I wonder if ever posted that I actually graduated. Finished off in august but didn't get my grades for until like october and then didn't get my degree for a few months after that. Managed to get up to a 3.01 at the very end. It's sad how much a bad semester drags you down, it felt like all the 3.5+'s in the world couldn't undo that one 1.4 semester.

[SamanosukeShiva]

late to the party, got "congrats you're in the deans list" letter few weeks ago

[BerenTebogo]

Calculus 2 is by far the best Calculus. Integration techniques 4 lyfe.

Also, while wolfram alpha is incredibly useful, if you use it as a crutch and have in-class exams you'll be back here this time at the end of the semester "what happened?!"

If you're in a STEM degree: Put 100% of your effort into learning the basics, Calc 1-4, mechanics, dynamics, etc and then slack off later. Easy to slack when you know the material everything you're doing is based off of. Impossible to slack when you can't do the physics / engineering / applied math because you didn't learn the underlying shit well enough.

tl;dr: Fuck that wolfram alpha link, use this one instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RdI...8D449&index=66

That place in playlist should roughly be the start of Calc 2 topics.

[Aristio]

Passed Calc 3 with a C
Failed Physics
A in Anthropology 101
Withdrew from Differentials

Got a 2.0 this semester. I graduate and transfer to a CSU next semester with a major in Computer Science. Overall GPA is I believe a 3.1.

[BerenTebogo]

Passed Calc 3 with a C
Failed Physics
A in Anthropology 101
Withdrew from Differentials

Got a 2.0 this semester. I graduate and transfer to a CSU next semester with a major in Computer Science. Overall GPA is I believe a 3.1.

Things you probably shouldn't have judging from above.

Like...what?

[AidenCarby]

Decided to take summer classes this semester...one of them being physics. Expect bg homework threads weekly lol

[Viq]

First semester runs a little later here than back in the States. Just got my grades today. This semester was hard ㅠㅠ

[Valkrish]

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

It absolutely saved my life. I'll personally be in cal 4 in the fall.

Is it worth having a yearly sub?

[BerenTebogo]

Why would you? It's free.

If you want something more powerful learn to mathematica. Many schools have student license agreements and will allow you to DL for free.