Is college supposed to be this easy?

[rjv]

Well, it was sarcasm. But actuarial studies? Still so many numbers. You wouldn't have gotten away from the quantum and vector .

no i would not have and so much probability as well. i'm far better with algorithms.

anyway, i was lucky enough to find a field that marries the disciplines of physics and medicine so it all worked out.

[spursfan09]

You should've majored in Business and Marketing.

Accounting is not exactly considered "easy"

[baseline bum]

i sure wish diff eq, quantum physics and vector calculus had come natural to me !

I don't think quantum mechanics comes naturally to anyone.

[jag]

Business, Marketing and Logistics Management

That's why college was easy.

[katyon6th]

Accounting is not exactly considered "easy"

I never said it was or wasn't easy. What are you referring to?

[jag]

i sure wish diff eq, quantum physics and vector calculus had come natural to me !

Never had to take quantum phys. but Diff E and multivariable calc sucked balls.

I assume you were a ME, considering you had to take quantum physics?

Sitting in class and memorizing can come "natural" to anyone depending on how interested they are in the material. Problem solving and lateral thinking are a completely different issue.

[rjv]

Never had to take quantum phys. but Diff E and multivariable calc sucked balls.

I assume you were a ME, considering you had to take quantum physics?

Sitting in class and memorizing can come "natural" to anyone depending on how interested they are in the material. Problem solving and lateral thinking are a completely different issue.

actually i was a math/philosophy double major. when i realized i was going to try to get into a graduate program for medical physics i had to go back and take certain upper level physics courses as well as C+ programming.

[jag]

actually i was a math/philosophy double major. when i realized i was going to try to get into a graduate program for medical physics i had to go back and take certain upper level physics courses as well as C+ programming.

oh ok that makes sense...upper level physics can be interesting, but i'd rather do higher math than physics.

[baseline bum]

Never had to take quantum phys. but Diff E and multivariable calc sucked balls.

D'oh, those were by far my two favorite lower-division classes. I thought single-variable calc was boring (it's much better when you redo it in real analysis), but multivariable was awesome because you had to think geometrically for so many of the topics.

[lebomb]

All I know is that my degree wasnt a cake walk...........Pulling all nighters to do drawings free hand or on the computer, doing environmental control system calculations and drawings.........heating/cooling/water systems. Doing renderings free hand and on the computer, building scale models by hand. that...............It wasnt easy at all. So if you took some pussy assed courses at Utsa, dont go calling everything easy. I know my former wife was a EE major and she would stay up late many a night to do only 3 or 4 mathematics problems, I remember her doing ONE problem and it taking a sheet and a half to solve..................Calculus 4 and Physics 3 and 4. She still graduated with honors.

[jag]

D'oh, those were by far my two favorite lower-division classes. I thought single-variable calc was boring (it's much better when you redo it in real analysis), but multivariable was awesome because you had to think geometrically for so many of the topics.

Multivariable made more sense cause you could visualize everything...and i thought it was actually easier than calc 2, but the professor i had for multivariable made everything so tedious.

Triple integrals are pretty simple...but you do them for long enough and you'll learn to hate it.

[katyon6th]

All this nerd talk is ridiculous.

[Fillmoe]

thats because a psych bachelors degree is about the equivalent of graduating from high school in terms of tough....

[Fillmoe]

and it took you over 10 years to get it.... you sir are an idiot....

[baseline bum]

Multivariable made more sense cause you could visualize everything...and i thought it was actually easier than calc 2, but the professor i had for multivariable made everything so tedious.

Triple integrals are pretty simple...but you do them for long enough and you'll learn to hate it.

Any kind of integration is hard (in closed form). All you can really do if you're trying to integrate in closed form is play with the function being integrated and the differential(s), and see if you can write their product in some special form that has been solved before. Thankfully, it can be done pretty easily numerically using things like Simpson's method, Monte Carlo methods, Romberg Integration, etc.