> I've studied in mechanical engineering. I've never EVER seen anyone use calculus to solve their problem in the real world. Consider yourself lucky you haven'

> I've studied in mechanical engineering. I've never EVER seen anyone use calculus to solve their problem in the real world. Consider yourself lucky you haven't been exposed to process chemistry. Those people have to rely on experimentally discovered equations where fractional exponents are the the norm. Not to mention that the math involved is, to an IT person, counterintuitive at best - and outright opaque at worst. The impossibly devious math involved in that field was one of the major reasons I switched my major. (The same maths come across everywhere in that field.) It is hard to imagine the joy you feel once you get to deal with discrete, math after spending a couple of years trying to wrap your head around the mental torture of applied physical chemistry.