Recent content by oksanav

I have to say, I'm the opposite. I used to obsess over my homework, obsess over the test, and over study and not do s o great. As time has advanced, so has busy-ness, and so now I barely keep up with my homework. I go to class, I think about it, I turn everything in close to on time, but I don't...

I don't think it would hurt to try to be a lefty. Seems smart, you never know when you might hurt your right hand and be unable to use it. For the record, I'm an artist, of the painting near exact copies skill. However, I suck at drawing straight lines. I don't think they should be a measure...

You're just ambidextrous, which many of us lefties are. Nevertheless, the reason most people draw like 5 year olds is because they don't draw much after around that age. So practice, and using a nice mechanical pencil with rulers and what others recommended, you should do well. I know some don't...

I love it when teachers do this!

I don't know about the lower level stuff, but Schaum's outline for modern physics and advanced calculus were a complete waste of money. I heard they were good, so I bought both when I was taking modern with a teacher who thinks you know everything before you walk in the door. The first sentence...

I think making a cheat sheet, whether or not you can use it, is helpful, because be writing it down and picking what is most important, you learn it. Once you take the test, the card is only there to confirm. But it's still nice. I disagree that you can derive everything from basic equations--...

Or you can just use this website: http://www.image-ination.com/test_maker/gpa.html

Surely when you were in algebra and you caught a glimpse of differential equations you were intimidated. But now you're beyond that. That's what keeps me from "crashing" when I get overwhelmed. It's hard to do stuff out of the mechanical textbook setting, just be patient I would think. But...

I switched from a lot of things to physics and for me it came down to this: in my other majors, like art, when I'd spend entirely too much time on a project (read as "every single second"), and didn't get the grade I wanted, or even if I did, I felt like I'd wasted a bunch of time. But with...

Last spring an 85 year old woman got her bachelors degree at my school, and my geology teacher said he once had a student in her 70s working towards a degree in geology because when she first went to college, she was told geology was a masculine discipline and pushed into botany.

Yes, it's important. If you at least know one language it will be easier to learn others as needed when you do research. Plus the basic classes are easy A's. I don't think you need to wait to take it.

My calc II teacher was atrocious. Near the beginning of the semester I asked him to work a problem on integrating something like csc^2xcosx. He looked at me and said in a cocky voice," well, what did you have a problem with it seems pretty obvious to me." He then proceeded to work the problem...

Not going at all is ridiculous. I might only make it to half the class periods for some classes, at best, but at least I go enough to know what's going on...

The grad school's I've talked to say they "assume you're good at math" so even doublemajoring in math is meaningless as far as impressing goes. But my math teacher says it's good to have if you're going to engineering, lol. I too am having to spread out hours because classes aren't offered til...

I wish they had that kind of program here! Less lab reports more math, that would be awesome!