Classes get easier/more interesting after weed out?

Darko21
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:45:22 +0000

I tried tutoring once and got a really bad impression of it and haven’t tried it since.

I believe the problem must be motivation since people talk about studying every night of the week and I never really study until the tests come around. I’m not doing too badly in my physics class (I’ve gotten a 98 and an 88 on tests, and my test average is the top 20%) but in calculus I mostly get 50s or 60s. The teacher is supposedly really easy (he has a high gpa average) but doesn’t teach well at all. So he gives homework and tests and a final, and I guess it is implied that you study for the tests by doing the homework, although he doesn’t really teach how to do the homework. So the only option is to either copy the solutions manual (my method) or go to the math lab for every homework. I just think that is really dumb, why are we paying for someone to teach us how to teach ourselves how to learn calculus. I guess my question then is are these the only classes that are like that (does it get a lot better?).

Phew, and I am a cs major :P