High School Sucks!

[Brendan Duffy]

Got an F in my Calculus class this quarter. Teacher gave one test all quarter and I failed it!! Talk about a crap week...

[skunked_again]

ive got more bad news..................it just gets harder.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

High School sucks?

Just wait until life smacks you upside the head a couple times.  You'll learn that this is the easy stuff.

[JigMe]

Got an F in my Calculus class this quarter. Teacher gave one test all quarter and I failed it!! Talk about a crap week...

Just wait until college, you get mid-term and final. Probably a final project. If you fail one of those, you are pretty much done.

[Carrington]

you just need to study, im in ap calculus and we have 1 test a semester and thats our entire grade for the semester.  i know kids who failed it and failed the semester because they didnt study enough.  i got a B.

[bweave09]

Calc is no joke. I'm in college calculus class and I'm pretty sure I bombed my test today. Its all good tho

[Tin]

One thing I will say is I think Calc 1 was the hardest Calc out of 1,2, and 3. What were the topics matter?

I think Rootbeer and Dan know that stuff real well.

[Carrington]

i was just looking at the classes i will have to take for the next couple years since im majoring in aerospace engineering and some of the math courses ive never even heard of lol.  so i can only imagine how hard they will be.

[preach4bass]

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1268874035/0#0

After you read the above thread to gain some perspective, log off of BR for a while and go read your calculus textbook.

[Tin]

i was just looking at the classes i will have to take for the next couple years since im majoring in aerospace engineering.

Well you will figure out how to save the world from the impact of an asteroid.

[Glenn]

Calculus and Trigonometry are tough.  It took me awhile to figure out that it wasn't about memorizing formulas and equations. It's about learning to solve a problem in a logical, methodical manner - from point A to point B - and being very thorough.

Once I learned how to approach it differently, my grades shot up.

Hope that helps you!

[Dan:]

i was just looking at the classes i will have to take for the next couple years since im majoring in aerospace engineering.

Well you will figure out how to save the world from the impact of an asteroid.

You obviously haven't taken enough calculus to know that only Bruce Willis can accomplish such a feat.

[Sam]

Brendan,

Remember....

1. Some of us stronger in math while others in verbal skills. Usually not both.

2.  There are three things that lead to poverty: No high school diploma; having a baby out of wedlock; getting married as a teenager.

3.  So you flunked the test. Do better next time.

I bet you are a gifted verbal person.

Get that high school diploma; go to college; study English and history; be an attorney; make a lot of money; give handily to Social Security.  ;D   ;D   ;D

[dave]

You WILL look back one day and wish you could go back to the easier days of highschool.

[Captain Obvious]

Suck it up and hit the text books, learn to rebound from a bad grade now or college will kick your @$$

[Stasher1]

You WILL look back one day and wish you could go back to the easier days of highschool.

x2

Enjoy your time in HS and take care of your education while you're young. College sucks when you're 36, married, and have three kids.

[Tokyo Tony]

i was just looking at the classes i will have to take for the next couple years since im majoring in aerospace engineering.

Well you will figure out how to save the world from the impact of an asteroid.

You obviously haven't taken enough calculus to know that only Bruce Willis can accomplish such a feat.

You forgot about Chuck Norris. Don't let it happen again.

[Dan:]

I didn't know he was in that movie

[SPEEDBEAD.]

i was just looking at the classes i will have to take for the next couple years since im majoring in aerospace engineering.

Well you will figure out how to save the world from the impact of an asteroid.

You obviously haven't taken enough calculus to know that only Bruce Willis can accomplish such a feat.

You forgot about Chuck Norris. Don't let it happen again.

There is no use telling them Tony.

They are already dead from their mistake....Let this be a warning to those that remain.

;D

[Tokyo Tony]

I didn't know he was in that movie

One who is omnipresent cannot not be in a movie.

[Grey Wolf]

Wait until you get out in the real world , you'll wish you were back in highschool.

[topwater.va]

I have taken two year of Calc as of now and one piece of advice to you is practice problems.  Along with looking at the problems you did during class get some new questions out of your textbook and study those.  I am sure you teacher will be willing to help you as of now.  I am also assuming that your last quarter dealt with derivatives.  My toughest semester was the one containing derivatives.  Integrals are easier.

Good luck and hit the books.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

What I wouldn't give to go back to high school.  Once you're done with school, you'll start to realize how hard life can be.  Especially in this economic climate that we're currently in.  I couldn't imagine how hard it would be for some of the kids fresh out of college right now trying to get work.  Enjoy yourself as much as you can in high school.  Yeah, some classes suck, sometimes you fail a test, who cares.  Just drive on and do better next time.  You'll get out of school what you put into it.  Just don't let it get you down because you got some F on a piece of paper.  Nobody will really care down the road that you got an F in a single semester in a single class.

[Dan:]

I hated higher level math. I used to crush algebra but stuff above that just didn't make sense to me. I only took two courses of math in college. Luckily my major had an option for either a BS or a BA but both were practically the same as far as the requirements. I ended up getting a BS so I wouldn't have to take a language and I had already fulfilled the extra math course requirement.

[Root beer]

The lowest score I made in calculus was a 72. That was over the anti-derivatives and something else. It wasn't that bad, but I'm never doing it again, ever. The derivatives and such never made any sense. All I remember was, you had a formula that showed rate of change for a data, then the derivative showed the rate of change for the formula. Screw it. I tried like hell in that class and I even went to the math lab where there are tutors and still made C's on the tests.  :-/ Oh well.

As others have stated, when you get to college you hardly have any assignments and if you bombed one test, you might as well dropped the class. Half of my classes have 3 tests the entire semester. And each test covers at least 12 pages of notes.