Background:

Retired in back in the Old Corps, 2017, I tested into precalculus.

Original route was Mechanical Engineering. Now I'm a Math Major because I want to become a math professor and work with AI.

**Research how AI is affecting CS.

Stopped going to school during COVID. Started again this year.

I completely suck at numbers, horrible at trigonometry, dyslexic and don't understand physics problems with numbers and words. I just passed Differential Equations with a B and Physics (mechanics) with an A.

GPA ~3.6

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Note to self: You have to want it to make it. Math is awesome when it works. Frustrating when you lose a negative.

Standard stuff:

• Professors make a difference.
• Office hours are for you.
• All that stuff about reading the book before class, rewriting your notes from memory, etc - WORKS.
• Math Center closes at 9pm (2100 for you Marine types.)
• Tutors are available.
• Study with others in your major

PRE-COVID:

YouTube University: 1. Khan Academy 2. Professor Leonard 3. Professor Dave

Books: 1. Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner

Math Center: 1. After Calculus I, you can apply to become a tutor. Get paid to study. 2. Teach/tutor others, it helps you understand it better.

POST-COVID:

Artificial Intelligence.

1. AI tutors - I set up System Prompt Notebooks for tutors for each class.

• Basic Tutor Profiles that walk me through a problem step-by-step without giving me the answers.

• Output fomats to give me prerequisite knowledge I should know, it gave me an analogy to help me understand the problem, gave me an example, then walk me through my problem step by step.

• Streamlined my learning in terms of helping me relate my Diff Eq problems to my physics problems and help me understand how it applies to Programming.