Didn't take calculus in high school and now I feel behind...

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 05:15:12 +0000

I think that it is inevitable that different students will come in with different amounts of preparation in different dimensions. You are probably ahead in some other ways, but you are a bit behind in this particular subject. You just have to put in extra effort and catch up in this one subject.

You will need to study extra in this class. You probably should seek out help from the professor for example during the professor’s office hours. Another option is to get a tutor for this class.

If you want to do much in the “TEM” part of STEM, or in physics, then you will need to know Calculus well. Thus it is well worth spending the extra effort in this particular class. If you got a B on the midterm, then with extra help you should be able to do okay in this class (and a B overall is not terrible – you are going to get some B’s now that you are in university).