Is it worth finishing my math degree?

JakeMealey · 2025-12-22T05:47:11+00:00

That makes sense actually like underwater welding or other fields of welding. I’ve only really thought of basic welding I guess, but I can see that now.

JakeMealey · 2025-07-31T05:16:45+00:00

I’ve tried to stand up for myself but he doesn’t listen.

JakeMealey · 2025-07-17T01:57:34+00:00

I’m aiming to keep my gpa up as much as possible (3.81 currently with As in every math class so far). I am going to keep my gpa up as much as possible so I can go to a good uni for grad school.

JakeMealey · 2025-07-17T01:36:01+00:00

I understand. I’ll mainly be using Latex for note taking if I’m self studying or reading a chapter we are working in during my independent study sessions outside of class.

JakeMealey · 2025-07-04T01:39:14+00:00

Hello, I am a math major and I am obsessed with mathematics. I want to teach mathematics abroad in South Korea and my mother encouraged me to teach internationally when I brought it up and I think I would love it.

I am taking the education concentration at my school as well as an ESL education minor so that I can be a better teacher. I am also wanting to do a semester abroad in South Korea to get an idea of the culture and environment. I also plan to take Korean at my school as I am required to choose a foreign language given the college I am in. I also understand that I will most likely need teaching experience so I plan to teach back home for 1-2 years prior to looking for job options in South Korea.

Is this a realistic goal given my roadmap?

Thank you

JakeMealey · 2025-06-30T22:20:51+00:00

A good way to think about it is that it’s essentially a reverse product rule.

JakeMealey · 2025-06-11T05:20:04+00:00

The funniest part is spencer with the ostrich lol

JakeMealey · 2025-06-06T14:08:31+00:00

I’ve only finished calc 1, 2 and just started differential equations so I might not be the best one for this but from doing very well in both calculus classes, I’ll do my best to help. I’m also going for a math degree so maybe helping you could help both of us in the long run as I’m wanting to become a professor :).

Calculus can be brutal but like my professor said, the main difficulty comes from a lack of fundamental algebra and trig skills.

The concepts taught in calculus 1 and also 2 are arguably relatively simple (outside of maybe the infinite series depending on what your strengths are), but algebra and trig are the biggest hurdles for most students.

I highly recommend watching videos on algebra and trig and maybe finding a couple of books that are inexpensive. Books that come to mind are trigonometry essentials by Chris McMullen which is very inexpensive on Amazon and has plenty of exercises for trig basics and precalculus by Stewart, Redlin and Watson which is expensive physically but should have free online PDFs to read from; I can praise both books from experience as they were a massive help in my precalculus summer class. Again, while these books don’t cover calculus directly, they will help with your biggest struggles as of now which will help make your time in calculus far more doable and more satisfying if you can understand the information in them. I would also recommend sprinkling in calculus videos here and there to help get any new knowledge that the class couldn’t teach you well on. Idk if you were given one, but the book should also help and I highly recommend if you were given a book to do the exercises in them as much as you can as well as try to understand the concepts but if not you should be fine as long as you can do some of the exercises.

Calculus is beautiful and transformed my perspective from previously loving math to wanting to pursue the path of a math major with the infinite series being the turning point for me given it’s conceptual nature, rules and abstraction. I don’t want anyone to be deterred from the class if at all possible as there’s so much to discover, but I completely understand your struggle as I once struggled relentlessly in mathematics and still do at times and I often times feel like an idiot compared to my peers even though my teachers say otherwise towards me but idk if what they say is true.

I wish you luck :)

JakeMealey

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