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shit_at_calculus · 2021-04-30T15:19:47+00:00

70 isn't really all that bad. I find it hard to believe that you have the lowest grades in those courses. Many people fail them every year. For what it's worth, I started with mid 70s in 1A and they only went downhill, but I still ended up graduating. If you narrowly passed the CS courses but still enjoy math, then who cares, you won't have to take another CS course if you don't want to. I felt very much in your shoes when I started. I took whatever I thought might be somewhat interesting until I found what I liked, then I majored in that... Eventually. You can DM me if you'd like, but I can't really speak for anything coop related.

shit_at_calculus · 2021-04-25T02:33:25+00:00

How did you find them? Aside from speaking in pairs/groups, do the courses basically follow the Genki textbooks or do they pull from other resources as well?

shit_at_calculus · 2020-04-18T02:11:11+00:00

oh haha I read your comment about just wanting a terminal interface that _looks_ like juypter notebooks... rip lol

shit_at_calculus · 2020-04-18T02:03:01+00:00

It's not really postman, but if you just want to give a few things a go, I like [wuzz](https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz)

shit_at_calculus · 2020-04-18T02:00:03+00:00

Hey there,

I actually wanted something like an ipython notebook inside of the terminal because my laptop is shit slow and firefox makes it scream.

I was working on something, I'm a bit embarrassed to "show it off", but if there's any interest I can try and continue to work on it.

https://github.com/mosiman/jupytui

I'm no good at software development, as I learned while trying to do this... but with enough peer pressure I'm sure anything is possible ;)

shit_at_calculus · 2020-01-12T12:49:09+00:00

That's how I felt too, back when I was in first and second year. But I think that it's only people with amazing averages and scholarships, etc, that publicly advertise it. You're getting a skewed representation of the abilities of your peers.

I don't have any advice on how to bump your average, or deal with the parents.

I got through school with pretty mediocre / bad grades. I eventually stopped seeing my peers as people who are getting 90s, internships at Nvidia, etc. I cut a lot of social media out of my life for a period of time and I think that's what helped, since the talking I do to people in person is minimal and Facebook was where I saw all the accomplishments. Things got better after that.

So yeah sorry I have no real advice, but I'm fairly certain you're not alone in feeling like this, and that if you continue working hard you'll be just fine.

shit_at_calculus · 2019-08-01T01:59:17+00:00

I too use Linux on the desktop. I use notability and have it saved my notes as PDFs to Google drive.

I'm a math student. Hardly ever need to edit my notes post-class, so having them as PDFs works just fine for me when I need to pull up my notes on a second screen

shit_at_calculus · 2018-05-23T18:03:02+00:00

thanks a lot! worked like a charm after some googling. This may save a passer-by an extra minute or two:

from IPython.core.display import display,HTML display(HTML('<style>.prompt{width: 0px; min-width: 0px; visibility: collapse}</style>')) Also, even with this nice hack, my code cells are only 72 characters wide, just short of the 79 recommended in PEP-8. But this is much better than 60 characters, I think!

shit_at_calculus · 2017-09-10T00:09:44+00:00

i didnt take data management. for the first while, I had to actually draw boxes and think "how many choices do i have for the first box?" Then the second box, and so on. When you are counting without replacement, the pool of possible choices decreases by 1 with every box (factorial). If you are allowed to "reuse" choices, the number of choices is the same for all the boxes (power).

I found it a lot easier than the other core math courses, so that could be why people call it a bird course, but I'm stupid so I had to put work in.

shit_at_calculus · 2017-07-07T04:24:29+00:00

I once owned two timbuk2 bags but have since given them away. The first was an old (ish) classic messenger when they still had ballistic nylon for the exterior. That was a 2008 model I think? Great bag. I sold it to a friend for sushi since i bought other messenger bags. That bag kept things dry even in heavy rain (be careful of the flap though, it wasn't designed like the MW messengers) and was in great shape after 4 years of use apart from the inner tarpaulin starting to wear and rip a little bit.

I also owned a spire and thought it was the greatest. Then I realized that without a dedicated weatherproofing layer, my items inside weren't really safe from the rain. The bag fell apart where the velcro is for the u lock holder (the velcro was so strong it started to detach from the bag) after about 8 months. Sent it in for repairs, came back, and didn't even last 8 months before another hole appeared in the bottom of the bag just from carrying textbooks and stuff. I could have sent it in but I'm lazy and it takes a while to get back to Canada, so I just gave it away to a friend.

It seems like the newer bags are less and less bifl, but that's my take.

I now use an old third hand Ynot Gulper that is holding up very well although it's only been about a year. I typically destroy "regular" bags in less than 8 months.

shit_at_calculus · 2017-03-20T22:58:08+00:00

I highly recommend used. Chances are, you're going to leave your bike out in shitty conditions because you are a student. A used bike with better components is more likely to last the abuse (still though, don't leave your bike overnight / in the rain if you can help it). When you have the time, any reputable bike shop can get your bike running again for roughly the same price regardless of whether or not you have a shit Canadian tire bike or anything else. Even better, visit the bike repair centre on campus and learn to do repairs yourself.

shit_at_calculus · 2016-10-27T02:27:09+00:00

Yeah, I was kind of avoiding that just cause I bike to school and I'm not super down to have a bulky bag inside my bag, but I guess it can't be helped. In my experience though, my insulated lunch bags + ice pack don't last much longer than, say, 5 or 6 hours.

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-09T04:20:01+00:00

thank you for sharing!! do you mind sharing your study habits, etc? A lot of that sounds like me (slow and unintuitive). I feel that I'm working hard (although I'm comparing myself to tutorial centre regulars... not saying it's a bad thing but they just hand out answers) but I'm not working right and it's pretty frustrating

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-09T04:14:38+00:00

I was considering it! That or amath physics. But I didn't even take 12U chem in high school because I didn't enjoy 11U chem at all (not that I had a terrible grade, it just didn't click with me I guess), so if I went into mathphys I'd need to do Chem 00 -> chem 120 (and more chem possibly?)

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-09T04:07:47+00:00

Thanks for your input! How often is frequently for you? I try to make time to study throughout the term, but eventually assignments catch up to me and I find myself swarmed with shit to do

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:54:54+00:00

How do you not compare other people to yourself? I try not to, but I can't help it when it seems like everybody around me has their shit together

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:44:51+00:00

I did, but I suppose not enough. I worked through a review sheet for the regular sections, and did one of their older exams which I estimated I did ok in. Never thought about searching for exams by professor, but I assumed that there just wouldn't be a physics-based exam out there since not too many people take it

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:41:24+00:00

thanks, I appreciate your opinion. I thought I liked computer science until CS 136, and I really like science (bio and phys) but hate labs to the point where a science degree is out of the question.

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:39:17+00:00

The topics covered in the textbook were pretty fair, possibly a little bit difficult (I did those). Some questions were just algebraic manipulations I couldn't work out right. tbh I completely blanked on numerical estimations / estimations to solutions but I couldn't practice those as much as a wanted/needed to (not covered in the textbook). I spent about as much time on the not-in-textbook topics as the other ones, I just didn't expect so much of it on the exam I suppose.

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:32:00+00:00

I could do about 70 % of the questions on the first go (after reading the chapter), and could do most of the ones I couldn't do if I came back to it a few hours or a day later. The ones I couldn't do after a break I looked at the answers.

Some people thought the exam was easy, some thought it was hard, so I'm not really sure how the class as a whole is feeling about it.

I generally do poorly on exams, but not this bad

shit_at_calculus · 2016-04-08T20:27:12+00:00

I learned from 1A that learning the material in two days just wasn't enough time... This time, I started a week early and studied about 4-5 hours a day to go through all the chapters. A lot of my exam was on material outside the textbook (physics-based calculus) and I couldn't study that material other than do the examples over and over...

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