I really don't like precalculus. I've never been so miserable as today when i got back the test i swore I aced. an 84 honestly isn't bad. it's just annoying to study for 5 hours and get an 84 because of a negative sign and putting a "one" instead of "three" in my answer booklet. really.
it's not like i need the grade to be a comm major...pff. it just annoys.
and the final's on trig. moooore studying.
but did you know that like my lassst semester of high school is gonna be killer. i'm so happy. and maybe i can do everything i want to because
A) i will have my license
B) i will have NO science courses and NO math courses
C) I might find my heart again over winter break.
I'm kind of just on autopilot to survive. I just want to be more than ok. But i feel like I need to be done with math and science first.
i dunno. math and science may come easy to other people. for me it's such a stretch, it's always a challenge to understand the most basic stuff. the smart-___ [indian] [prepster] guy that sits behind me in precalc laughed out loud at me this morning when i had to ask the professor to explain something for the third time. it bothered me, because i know half the other people in the class didn't get it either, so who is he to be whatever.
i dunno. there's a guy in physics like that too. i say to him in my imagination, well if you're so smart-___ then go to freakin' rutgers and leave the remedials alone, you dork!
not speaking of the word ___, (trying to be tasteful...) my lab partner from last week is amusing in the way that he adds -___ to the end of all his adjectives.
so i was talking to him, told him something. he responds with, "yo, that's mad interesting-___." I kinda look at him and repeat, "interesting-___?" Then we're both able to laugh at his ridiculous habit.
i like physics, because it makes sense. precalc is more annoying. what is the point of sines and cosines?
the answer: they're ratios.
question: but like how would you use them in real life? like logarithms help you do interest problems?
answer: uhhh....i dunno.
question: but you're in your sophmore year and in calc II....shouldn't you know what you've been doing the past 3 years?
answer: .....
that is why i do not like higher math.
except i would have lots of fun studying stuff like math theory and infinity and imaginary numbers and black holes.
but they don't teach you that until you learn the numbers e and i. e and i are numbers? really?
we spent two hours this morning talking about wavy lines. why?
good question. a good question that no one will answer for me.
i swear it's a conspiracy.
Trig is actually very, very useful in real life. Unlike e and logs, it doesn't have any direct applications, but if you have any problem involving triangles, you're going to have trig.
ReplyDeleteFor example, in engineering analysis, you can calculate the forces acting on just about any object. But to do so, you're going to need to take a force and separate it into vertical and horizontal components. You need trig to do that.
When that one Greek guy calculated the circumference of the earth, he used trig. when you need to evenly divide a pizza into a billion slices, you use trig. And on and on.