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It's a love/hate with me.
College Algebra: B Calc1: C Calc2:C Differential Equations: D Linear Algebra: A Statistics and Probability: D Laplace and Fourier Analysis: A
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College Algebra: <excepted> Calc1: A Calc2:F F <skipped> Differential Equations: B Linear Algebra: B Statistics and Probability:C Laplace and Fourier Analysis: B
EE/ComSci Here too. I just couldn't memorize the models for Calc II, I did them my own way. Got the right answers, but didn't use the models in the front of the book. Advisor told me to just go to DiffEq, so I did.
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College Algebra: <excepted> Calc1: C Calc2: C Calc3: C Differential Equations: C Linear Algebra: C Neumarical Methods: C+ Laplace and Fourier Analysis(for me this was actually 2 different classes): B+
Maybe I shouldn't become an engineer...lol
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As long as you understand the theory and the "Big Picture", rather than being a monkey who will go step by step like the book showed you, you will be fine.
Most of the Wizards I know didn't do stellar in the basic Calc classes. In the real world, a manager NEVER drops a polynomial on your desk and asks you to integrate.
Many of those I know who went through college with Straight As suck in The Real Life, because they want every problem defined precisely to them, as it was in college, rather than "Here's the concept, make it work". Math is a tool used here and there in "making it work", but knowledge of physics and general "awareness" of factors, combined with a bunch of smaller chunks you know work can be pasted together for the outcome.
For example: Einstein could not do integrations! He had to ask a local college professor for proof and help on E=mc² He "saw" the solution, it was correct, but when it came down to proving it mathmatically, he could only go so far as he knew, and needed help. I believe that alone speaks VOLUMES for those who think they won't be good at something because they can't do part of it.
If you enjoy fixing problems (car repair, computers, checkbook balancing), and can come up with new ways of doing old things, you have the "basics" of what it takes. It is only a matter of honing them. This usually happens in the workplace, not in college.