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22 years later I still have nightmares about DiffEq because I received a C in the course when I really deserved an F. I’ve sometimes wondered if the dreams woul
by nsxwolf 6y ago
22 years later I still have nightmares about DiffEq because I received a C in the course when I really deserved an F. I’ve sometimes wondered if the dreams would stop if I sat down and successfully learned the material.
- r-bryan 6y agoNo, suggests my experience. For me, after somehow squeezing through DiffEq, I met complex analysis, taught by the math department. I started the semester, got way behind, dropped it. Did that a second time. The third time my advisor wouldn't let me drop it, and I ended up with a gentleman's D (the only D in my life, aside from like handwriting in 3rd grade). The very next semester I took pretty much the exact same material from the EE department. I got it, I loved it, and aced it completely. But 50 years later, I still have those gonna-flunk dreams.
- k__ 6y agoDE and calculus in general was very confusing to me in university. I think, I only passed because my discrete math prof told my calculus prof I'm not an idiot.
- heimatau 6y ago> I’ve sometimes wondered if the dreams would stop if I sat down and successfully learned the material. I strongly encourage you to relearn these concept with OCW MIT with Strang and Moler [1]. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvL88xqYSak&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63oTpyxCMLKt_JmB0WtSZfG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvL88xqYSak&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
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- segfaultbuserr 6y agoxkcd #557: https://xkcd.com/557/ https://xkcd.com/557/
- sampo 6y agoSeveral people have commented about having this nightmare. In the American university system, bad things happen if you fail a course?
- mrbungie 6y agoNot just American, nightmares about school are very common among adults from all places: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201606/they-dream-school-and-none-the-dreams-are-good https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201606... Anecdotically, I have this kind of nightmare at least once a year and I'm from Chile.
- mhh__ 6y agoI think the key with a mathsy topic like this is to sit down and really just laser-focus on what you don't understand. Don't trust your teacher, read 4 different textbooks if that's what it takes to make it stick - it doesn't matter whether is dry as a desert or visual, just whatever works. The amount of intuition you have grows exponentially. The rule of thumb that I live by is that learning mathematics is difficult, and teaching mathematics well is almost impossible - prepare before hand. I don't think I've learnt anything in a lesson or lecture post-algebra, that may not be the best thing but I have a very good feel for what I need to learn because of it.