#calculus class

[sluggishslug]

Skipping my calculus class because I can't look at my teacher's face and turn in a blank test again, sorry buddy, I will study this week I promise

[paracosmicessence]

bad dream

[kh-heritage-posts]

Mole XIII

[kohakhearts]

forget about fatal flaws or mental illness or whatever. how does your blorbo feel about math

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is fantasizing marrying someone... Because of their surname. Like yeah what do you mean your surname is Frost GIVE THAT TO ME /j

... of all the names. you pick the one of the guy we were constantly teased about "liking" as a child.

[shepherdfeathers]

First time animating a mech let’s go mf

[almostthursdayy]

thinking about what training or classes mello didn’t go through because he ran away. like, do you think matt makes fun of him for not knowing calculus iii

do you think near was also ripped from wammy’s classes to focus on the case so he also doesn’t know calculus iii?

[twilightkitkat]

Did the ENTIRE FIRST PART OF THE PROBLEM the hard way by just substituting outright and compounding the chain and product rule. I got the actual numeric answer right only for it to go back and ask me to format it differently?

I got it right once I used their method WHICH GIVES YOU THE SAME ANSWER but isn't practical at all since I had to substitute the parametric functions in anyway? I should just write these questions at this point bro I'm actually going crazy.

[rondo-grazioso]

some math professor quotes

I just remembered about this draft post i made years ago during a semester when i had maybe the funniest professors ever. I guess now that it’s been a while since i’ve been out of uni it’d be fun to just post these 

Algebra

it’s ok that i’m confused, i’m confused all the time

you can teach a monkey to memorize…well, nothing against monkeys, monkeys are amazing

pray that this is an isomorphism

(TA after realizing mistake) oh noooooo….all the other students….i told them the wrong thing…aaah shit

wow…spontaneous silence

can they smurf better

if you look at the solutions after trying a question only once or twice, it will break my heart

last-minute cramming will be about as useful as bringing your dog to the exam

Calculus

this fucker converges

(every time he writes a complicated equation) what the fuuuuu

fuck the one

you know what bfc stands for? big fuckin cube

mathematics is serious!! we don’t like laughter. no laughter allowed. stop laughing. even smiling is not allowed

(someone’s phone goes off) what was that? probably me

(some weird noise coming from outside) what was that? god is that you

e^x is god’s function. lnx is the devil’s function

*comes in talking in a russian accent*

if you don’t know what the dot product is then…you’re fucked 

(after telling a story about experience working in a mental asylum) you may think i’m insane, but you haven’t seen what insane really is!! i’m perfectly normal 

Analysis

½ is less than 1…somehow

oh, 5 minutes left…well, i don’t really have anything else i want to cover. actually maybe i’ll just write a definition *(whole class goes NOOOOO)* okayyy

(finding out there is 15 minutes left of class) oh wow. i thought this would’ve taken me more time to get through

(after playing around with some faulty blackboards) i’m scared for my life now 

(after being stuck on his own proof) i’m going to take a quick look at my notes, which is already pretty embarrassing 

(after making a gajillion mistakes on the board) i really need to learn to read before i talk 

what do you call this in canada

(TA) *coughs* sorry i’m dying 

(TA) somebody on the midterm wrote “i’m dumb” on this question. that’s pretty irrelevant because i’m dumb and i can do this question 

[boycritter]

my calculus teacher seeing a trans man

[lastlabyrinth]

I posted a while back about my decision to attempt a CS degree and my fears about the math classes and learning new languages. Well...

I passed all the math classes! Calc 2 was very hard and I shed a lot of tears, mainly because of the professor and the way the class was designed. I still made it out with an A. I also took an elective languages survey course and did very well there, too.

now the big hurdles are the self-directed courses like software engineering. I really struggle with limiting the scope of my projects when left to my own devices.

There is also an operating systems course I already had to drop once--the most dropped and failed course in the program according to my advisor. But this time I will be brave and try to see it through even if I can't get a perfect grade. Wish me luck! and uh, if you know of any good resources for learning to write command prompt scripts, please share. I watched MIT's missing semester lecture series but i guess it wasn't enough.

[lilacandladybugs]

sometimes i ask my math professors why we're doing a certain thing and i dont know how to explain that i dont mean "this has no real world applications>:(" i mean what are the math applications?

it was such an exciting moment for me when i realized that since combinations/permutations are ways to find how things can be arranged, and probability is just the ways we can get something we're interested in over all the ways we could get something(want/all), combinations and permutations give us ways to find more complicated probabilities without being able to individually list all possible combinations by hand. so the "why are we doing this" for combinations/permutations is "so we can take more complicated probabilities later on". (It's also the basis for the binomial distribution!!)

without being able to understand the direction we're going with an idea it feels like a random exercise instead of the doorway to understanding more complex mathematical ideas and it also makes me feel like i don't understand how all the pieces of the class fit together.

[baradragon]

*rocking back and forth* the only way out is through

[scaredshadowsswap]

Something that I’ve never seen talked about is how terrible it would be to be a woman at the SCP Foundation.

If you look at the Personnel docket, you’ll see it’s mostly men. That is not inherently a problem, but a lot of the characters written as masculine…are creepy.

Like, if you asked Clef for pronouns, you’d probably get a response like “My pronouns are daddy/[moan]��, and then you’re stuck in this weird position. You can call Clef by he or they pronouns since that’s less embarrassing and you know Clef was messing with you, but then you’ll be berated by Clef for not respecting pronouns. Or, you can call Clef daddy, which’ll get some weird reactions from whoever you’re talking to.

Or Strelnikov? If a woman was in Epsilon-5 “Red Dawn”, he’d probably be pretty vocal about his opinions of having women on the team. As shown in his Personnel File, he calls all male nurses “babies”, and I can imagine he has a very long rant prepared about that and this. As shown in his handbook, he is clueless about women. He also seems like a very traditional Russian, which brings with it the slavic gender roles. Women are expected to be subdued, which means you’d be dealing with a lot of sexism from this man, until you manage to prove to him that he’s wrong.

Iceberg too. He just seems very much like an incel, and you’d have to deal with that. Luckily, there’s no way for you to work under him like you would with Strelnikov or Clef since he’s already Gears’s assistant, but if you ever sit near him during lunch or something, it seems so uncomfortable. If you sit near him every day during lunch, he may eventually warm up to you and internalize you as “one of the good ones”, which…is still not good, but better I guess?

The others I usually write about seem better, but with these being some of the most well-known characters in the SCP Foundation, I can only imagine what craziness you’d deal with when interacting with some lesser-known personnel.

[cheesemenace]

Has anyone or is anyone taking Calc 2 or Calc B/C? Because.. I am struggling. Please, aro/ace (or not, just targeting my followers) mathematicians 🙏🙏🙏🙏 help a guy out.

[sovietunion]

Sitting here smiling with tears in my eyes because I accidentally signed up for a calculus class and now we're getting to the calculus part. (It's Over)