I've never read Scientific American (save for flipping through it in bookstores occasionally), but I have a subscription to PopSci which I quite enjoy. PopSci seem to be centred on technology and innovation with devices. Lots of the articles that I've read that are springing to mind are, "This...
I've had one course like this, except we were only allowed one side. I've always been prejudiced against these courses, though, ever since my first year math prof told us that when you're allowed cheat sheets they make the questions trickier to compensate. When I compare the course that I was...
I know what you mean about high school math - it can feel very repetitive and memorized - however, I would say that in my experience, university math (or the math required for engineering, at least) is a lot less formulaic and routine. From what I've seen in my math courses, the students who...
When my friend and I were being tutored in Thermodynamics, basically we got in touch with our tutor when we thought we needed help (after a particularly difficult lab or before an exam or something), and he would come and ask us if we had any specific questions (which he would then go over with...
Thanks for the welcome, guys :)
And waht, my favourite part of that whole thing was in http://xkcd.com/730/" when he said in the alt-text that he had just nerd sniped himself trying to figure out the resistor mass in it xD I'm not going to lie, since that comic came out, I've spent the...
I've taken all the courses you've mentioned, so maybe I can help a little :) I was one of the ones that found Calc 2 to be a heck of a lot harder than Calc 3 (we have different names for them here, but based on what you've said about them, I'm quite sure they cover the same material). However...
^^ But I hate doing a cold entrance even more xD
I'm Bee and I'm a third year EE student at some school in Canada. The main reason I'm posting this is just to throw out there that I feel pretty over my head here (haha) but I've been lurking for months and I'm hoping that maybe I'll learn...