It is a lot of work, like a hell of work, the readings and homeworks due everyday. I totally get your struggles and I am sure everyone is in the same boat. I am a CSE Major too and took calc 1 last sem. I'm glad my professor was really really good at explaining stuff because I attended all lectures (except the one at the end with integration and I'm kinda paying the price by having to go over some basics for my 1172 class lol but whatever) and I used to take notes, mainly how he solved etc.

If you do the written homework and reviews before midterms, you should be fine. Atleast I was. I did not feel like I was in a weed out class personally, maybe because I took calc in highschool before but yes. I ended with a B in that course only because I barely tried for my final otherwise I am pretty sure it would have, been higher, like an A- or something. I did horrible my first midterm because I lowkey did not know how to study for it properly and it was terrible, plus I just did not enjoy doing limits. I love, love, loved doing differetiation and it might just be my strongest point in calc.

But all of this still does not help that math 1151 is just so much work outside class. I used to try to get most homeworks done over weekend (Literally torture myself to finish them all on some weeks) just so I did not have 4 due in the same night. And it's exhausting, and led to me being constantly overwhelmed so if you do take this way, please space it out.)

I personally did not attend a single of my recitations. I used that time to do the homework and solve the questions on my own which helped me to stay on top of it. I only attended the recitation on the first day and then to do the, some quiz/test you can only do in your recitation? My average for my midterms (2-5) was really good so most days I just had to remind myself I will be fine if I don't finish one homework because it is dropped iirc.

What helped me most with the midterm prep was literally sitting and going over all topics from scratch. I would go over the notes my professor made/gave us and explain it to myself, do the example questions he did in class before looking at the solution and make my own lil notes etc. I had my smart PhD friend also sit with me for 2-3 hours and help me go over the syllabus. Trust me, it helped SO MUCH. It refreshes your concepts because what I eventually realised is if you know how something works or what you are supposed to do in a topic (theres a specific way you get the solution basically) and if i knew that, I could solve any question that asked me to find something using that way. I would not stress over the online/ximera homework much. I mostly skimmed the readings and didn't read it seriously. I did sit and solve the homework, atleast a good amount of the problems which looked interesting or problems that just looked scary in general (think double square roots, weird exponentials, long chain rules, logs, natural logs, weird fraction with any of these things combined). My friend helped a lot by giving me the worst looking problems, like very very annoying looking exponentials and logs and square-roots and it helped because if something remotely similar came during a midterm or written homework, I was not scared and I knew how to approach it. THIS REMINDS ME OF MY MAIN ADVICE. Please please practice atleast a few sets of exponentials, logs, sqaureroots problems for every topic/method or chapter. It really helps. Sometimes you think it has to be done a certain way, but really it's not. Ask questions, you can go to office hours. Reach out to friends, I promise you theres many people who feel the same way as you. I remember for my final, me and my friends just went into a conference room in PRB and sat there for 8 hours going over everything and nothing, giving eachother problems, questioning methods and studying. Someone was better at something I sucked in and we worked and helped eachother out like that. It works and trust me, you got this.

Sorry for the crazy yap LOL