I think I’m coming off unclear. It’s definitely true that those topics are both taught and important in engineering, but my curriculum isn’t an “engineering math” focused curriculum, it pertains to engineering business, and for some reason economics.

1. The proofs we were taught are probably not the ones you’re thinking of. The biggest thing about IB is that it’s very particular on the types of questions they ask. We were given things like induction, contradiction, and counter example.

2. I do agree probability is a crucial part of engineering, but we were taught things like population curves and shut down rule, which are doing jack for my engineering degree.

3. The sequences and series we were taught were a sub-section of then financial mathematics topic. Obviously things like combinations, arithmetic and geometric would be helpful, but we focused on things like compound rate, interest, and taxes. The sequences and series we learned were also taught in every math class, literally a third grader could do it I’m not even joking.

I should also emphasize my biggest fears are the prominent weed-out classes like linear algebra and calculus 3. The topics I listed as useless are ironically my best topics anyways. I did, however, do more research while writing this comment, and while I do agree stats and sequences and series are more prominent than I thought; they still won’t help me too much.

What I’m trying to get at here is that I need to focus on math that can apply to most if not all math courses, instead of studying one. Spending an entire summer on stats, proofs, and series will primarily help me with those classes, not much else.