<p>The claim that calculus is tougher at GT than at GSU is bunk. It may appear tougher because the instructor at GT will likely be some slack t.a., while at GSU you will get a regular prof.</p>
<p>@ Cliff</p>
<p>As someone who has seen calculus at Tech and calculus at a Georgia State-esque school, I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with you. GIT’s intro calculus classes are much more rigorous than those at a “typical” state school. Also, very few calculus instructors at Georgia Tech are not professors.</p>
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<p>My friends from UGA say the same nonsensical things. Moral victories?</p>
<p>dejacree, I’m not sure what you mean by a “Georgia State-esque school,” but I think you simply mean a non-GT school in Georgia. I’ve seen this attitude from a lot of GT students, as they seem to feel superior. I have a physics degree from State, but I took several computer science courses and upper level physics courses at Tech, so I speak from experience. I found the instruction at State generally superior. One of my physics profs at Tech (a full professor), simply copied what he wrote on the board every class from notes he had written on sheets of paper that were always in his hand. He mumbled his way through every lecture. He was a nice guy, but sucked as a teacher. The guys who lived on campus in frat houses did very well on tests because they always had “word.” This means old tests to practice on, which were given repetitively over and over. This idea that GT is such a great and “tough” school is just that. Most students who have actually attended the place know better. Their parents and friends might be impressed but it is bunk. I once saw something written on a restroom wall of all places while in the EE building one day: “I was told you had to be very smart to go to this school. I now think you have to be very dumb to go to this school.” I also know a guy who said his company hired an BEE grad with a 4.0 gpa, and the guy didn’t even know how to use an oscilloscope.</p>
<p>See my reply to dejacree.</p>