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  • #31
You need to stop with the "wanna". It's not even slang. It's baby talk. Nobody will take you seriously if you insist on baby talk.

And you really need to focus in getting good grades in the courses you take before trying to whip through materials that are more advanced. This is the foundation for all your future studies and it needs to be strong.
 
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  • #32
Vanadium 50 said:
You need to stop with the "wanna". It's not even slang. It's baby talk. Nobody will take you seriously if you insist on baby talk.

And you really need to focus in getting good grades in the courses you take before trying to whip through materials that are more advanced. This is the foundation for all your future studies and it needs to be strong.
if you mean that I should just focus on getting good grades then that's what I am doing right now.
 
  • #33
Name- said:
if you mean that I should just focus on getting good grades then that's what I am doing right now.

Good. Now get Gelfand's trigonometry book, and get Schaum's outline of trigonometry. Work through both books concurrently.
 
  • #34
micromass said:
Good. Now get Gelfand's trigonometry book, and get Schaum's outline of trigonometry. Work through both books concurrently.
Aye aye captain :D.
 
  • #35
Vanadium 50 said:
You need to stop with the "wanna". It's not even slang.
Name- said:
So the answer is no if everything goes as planned I am going to go to Oxford
Same goes with "gonna".
 
  • #36
Mark44 said:
Same goes with "gonna".
Ah ok I think I understand i'll try to stop using those ''wanna'' and ''gonna' instead its going to be want to and going to does that work?
 
  • #37
Name- said:
Ah ok I think I understand i'll try to stop using those ''wanna'' and ''gonna' instead its going to be want to and going to does that work?
Much better. It's not so much for us here, but when you communicate with someone in a professional context, you don't "wanna" be taken as being sloppy.
 
  • #38
Mark44 said:
Much better. It's not so much for us here, but when you communicate with someone in a professional context, you don't "wanna" be taken as being sloppy.
Ok thank you this was very helpful I will be sure to stop doing that from now on.
 

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