Giving up on my classes for good

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What kind of counseling are you talking about?
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Something as simple as a good advisor who can see you through the class up to someone on the psychological side who can help you learn how not to have a single class into a catastrophe that makes an excuse for you to drop out of college.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
Not to be rude, but how exactly did you ask your professor for help? Many students would say that their professors were unhelpful but then when they would email me what they had sent was angry, unintelligble panic and not anything they could get help with.

Try something like,

“On homework problem 5 I’m having trouble with the way to figure out the linear differential equation. I’m not understanding how to divide (XYZ) into (XXY) in order to get (ABC)”

Here’s the Kahn Academy Link:

Differential Equations | Khan Academy

And finally, perhaps you can find some counseling through your college. It is very important you make good decisions, not ones in the heat of the moment. This extends far past college.
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Sorry, I tried, but that wasn’t enough. I couldn’t find anything for “Variation of Parameters.”
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Many of my students had good luck on this site.

https://brainly.com/subject/mathematics

it is open source, so your milage will vary but it’s a good place to start.
 
Well, I could use some help on a Differential Equations problem. I probably don’t know how to describe it, because I have no clue if anyone here knows how to solve it and help me out.
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Buddy, I took one semester of Bio-Calculus, managed to pass with a B (attributed to a curve grading system), and then said “see ya later” and haven’t looked back at math with any sort of fond memories. So, I don’t blame you for wanting to throw in the towel. Check with the professor, ask for tutors at the school, use study groups with people you know are doing well in the class, and use the plethora of online resources like youtube and Khan Academy, both of which are free. And then, practice problem after practice problem after practice problem
 
What’s the point of this? It’s about time I jump ship and cut my losses. If I can’t do it, I can’t do it. I guess I’m not cut for that class after all.
 
Friendly_Stranger said:
What’s the point of this? It’s about time I jump ship and cut my losses. If I can’t do it, I can’t do it. I guess I’m not cut for that class after all.
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This is the middle of the semester. There is NO cutting your losses. Finish the semester. Even if you fail everything it’s better than literally throwing thousands and thousands down the drain.
 
I agree with Xanthippe_Voorhees. Even if you fail, then if you retake the course (for instance, if this is a required course for your degree) then you would have heard everything in the course at least once and can now build off of what you have already learned, even if you failed the first semester. That which you DID learn is there now in your mind; you don’t have to take the time to learn it.

If you cut now, however, then when you retake the course, you’ll get to this point in the semester where, even if you’re doing better overall, you’re now to a part in the class that you’ve never heard before, which might be setting yourself up for failure again. Finish the course, even if you know you’re going to fail. But finish this course with the mindset that you are preparing for next semester when you retake it.
 
Sure. Sorry about that. Basically its this:

If you finish the semester whether or not you pass, and retake the class next semester, you will have already heard all of the material once. You’ve got some of a foundation already laid…you can then focus on the things that gave you the most difficulty.

But if you quit now and still retake the class next semester, you will have heard only ~50% of the course material, so that’s the only foundation you’ve got. The other 50% (the second half of the class) you have to learn from the ground up.

Is that better?
 
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Dearest Child of God,
All schools have helping areas. Most classes have brains in them. One can google teaching sites in most topics. FREE OR PAY???
Running away from a problem isn’t ethical. We must face all life’s problems, head on.
Google grammar. The world is a stage and we are the players. Asking questions and getting help is not stupid. What is stupid is running and not solving problems.
SEEK, AND YOU SHALL FIND.
KNOCK, AND THE DOOR SHALL OPEN
ASK. AND IT SHALL HE GIVEN.

Matthew 11. COME TO ME ALL YE WHO ARE HEAVY LADEN. I WILL GIVE YOU REST…

Jeremiah 29/11. I have a plan for you. It is a goid plan w/o evil. It has a future and a purpose.
In Christ’s love
Tweedlealice
 
I took calculus in high school. It was horrible and literally gave me nightmares. I always hated math. I’m guessing your math classes are just prerequisites and a necessary evil for now and not related to your eventual field of study and career?

Hopefully you can get the help you need – or at the very least, find a pathway of study that is more tolerable.

I avoided math classes as much as possible when I got to college. My major was graphic design, I think the only courses I took that were math related were some logic classes as a freshman.
 
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