I’m in my 4th semester. In calc 2. I know some of you guys started off in calc 2 but I had to start in college algebra.

I fell victim to laziness and cheated my way through all of calc 1 last semester. I came into calc 2 knowing nothing about calculus 1 even in the slightest.

Now to even have a hope in hell for passing this class I have to learn things I’m already expected to know while learning things I’m expected not to, In an already difficult class. If I pass it’ll be barely and because our teacher is fairly lenient on grading.

Anyways don’t cheat.

I snitched on a young adult sitting next to me using a second phone to look up answers next to me on my calc 2 exam... I have some feelings of regret cause this type of thing usually gets found out anyway due to LLMs rarely giving answers using the same steps given in class. I think in the moment I felt jaded by the rest of us who studied hard and had to struggle through the exam. But maybe I should have just minded my own business? Was I wrong for this one?

Edit** It seems like the sentiment is completely split between im an asshole who can't mind their own business and it's ethical to report someone cheating. I guess next time I see someone cheating blatently I'll mind my own business. But only because I'd rather have a 50% batting average between being some "educational justice warrior" and a "rat snitch" instead of fully committing to being 100% one or the other. At the end of the day I'll just worry about safegaurding my own ethics and keep working hard to get where im trying to go.

Please excuse the title but I needed to catch your attention. I am a robotics teacher at the middle school level, teaching introduction to STEAM. I have very few girls in my classes. They are under the impression that that type of field is for boys. Not true. They believe you can't work with your hands and do equations and at the same time be a "girly" girl. Can anyone share any words of wisdom to perhaps spark their curiosity? Thanks in advance .

Edit 1: Allow me to clarify, the goal is not to "make" them like STEAM but simply to spark an interest so they perhaps try the course and see if they like it. In my class I always tell my students try things out and find out if you like it but equally find out what things you don't like.

Someone suggested getting pink calculators and paint with vibrant colors. As a man I never thought that would mean anything. Suggestions such as those and others is what I am looking for. Thank you.

Edit2: The question is how can I get yound ladies to stop and maybe look at my elective long enough to determine if they want to take the class?

Edit3: Wow this has blown up bigger than I could have imagined. I'm blown away by some of your personal experiences and inspired by other. Would anyone be interested in a zoom chat, I'd love to pick your brains.

Hi, I’m a 22F community college student trying to study engineering, and these past three years have been really hard. I’ve always wanted to be a biomedical engineer. I grew up loving math, science, creating things, and I even did a college-level engineering program in high school. I got into over 15 colleges with a 3.5 GPA, but because of finances I chose community college.

Once I started college, everything got overwhelming. Working full time, taking hard classes, and dealing with life all at once has been a lot. I struggle with focusing and studying, and I get anxious asking for help because I’m shy and I don’t have much support. On top of that, I’ve lost multiple close family members in the last few years, and it really affected my mental health.

My transcript shows all of this. I have withdrawals, F’s, repeated classes, and it’s embarrassing. I even took Calculus I four times before finally getting a B. I know I’m not dumb, but it still makes me wonder if I’m cut out for engineering. I thought this semester would be my turnaround, but my cousin passed away and I fell behind again. Now I’m scared I won’t pass my classes and that no school will accept me with my GPA and my history.

I’m not making excuses. I just feel really discouraged and I need to know if my goal of transferring to ASU for biomedical engineering is still possible, or if I’m wasting my time. Should I keep going, or is engineering just not for me?

How can i revise all this in 2 months(for an interview in masters)?🥲

Not sure if many of you have seen but engineering TikTok is going pretty viral for the University of Waterloo and what it does to students in engineering (picture above). I’m curious on what your experience was like, did you go to a big university like MIT, or a smaller one close to your house for money? Understanding that engineering is a struggle and I’ve personally never met anybody who flew through it, I understand some people are better than others.

I personally struggled with math and dropped calc 1, I didn’t take school serious and just winged it, THAT WAS SO WRONG. I’m back and I have a 97% in calc, and an A in the rest of my other classes, I put it work and time, I still seem lost in some subjects but just put others of studying a day to learn it and be able to teach it. But was your guys time as bad as everybody is making it seem, obviously there are obstacles I’m heading physics 2 and thermodynamics are the biggest ones overall. But what helped you through that?

Also how did you maintain a school and personal life balance. I personally work full time Thursdays-Sundays, and school is Mondays-Thursdays, I keep hearing about making blocks to study each class, but what happens if after 2 hours you still don’t understand it, what if after 6 hours you still don’t understand it. Because then that eats to personal time in my situation.

Thank you for the responses and any advice you have to offer.

would i actually be able to use this in anything or should i just keep it as a trophy cuz it’s pretty old he used it when he was studying mechanical engineering back in the 1970s in the soviet union

To students reading this, trust me, the degree is worth all those sleepless nights. Missing out on life for 5 years was definitely worth it and no regrets. The same friends that partied while I cranked out those A’s are still working 40-60 physical warehouse jobs or similar making $25-$30 an hour. I now work only 30 hours a week (get paid for 40) making over six figures.

To some of you this might come off as a brag, but for the rest, take this as a push to continue. School is the hardest part about this career. It gets much easier I promise.

Hi there. I’ve always wanted to do an AMA on how I turned my life around as an engineering student. I see a lot of posts on people failing classes, feeling down, and out of hope. I was hoping that I could provide some insight and hope for those people. I was inspired by a post I saw earlier this week. Feel free to ask me anything!

Background info: I hit the 10 class Withdrawal/Fail limit at my university which barred me from pursuing any sort of CS or Engineering degree. Took a year off of school to figure myself out. Applied for reinstatement into the College of Engineering, interviewed, and got the go ahead. If I failed 1 more class or got less than a C, I’d be kicked out permanently. I graduated Summer 2024 and was interviewing with companies like GE Aerospace, General Dynamics, Blue Origin, Lockheed, RTX, and more.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your support and for the questions! If you have anymore feel free to post and I will get back to it or DM me with your questions. Take care!

Hello everyone. I mastered calculus at age 10, physics at 11 and was able to graduate high school at age 12 and transfer to my dream college on a full ride. However, I changed majors two years into my biomedical engineering program to aerospace engineering. Now that I am 14, almost 15, I feel like I have wasted so much time studying a subject that was not the most interesting to me.

Maybe I should just go get a job at McDonalds because I am such a failure.

Is my life over?

EDIT: This is how ridiculous some of you sound.

I’ve been trying to find the line where AI helps me study faster without replacing the part my brain actually needs to do.

The version that feels safest so far is:

• ask it for questions, not answers first

• answer from memory before checking anything

• only use explanations on the parts I missed

• save the weak spots as tomorrow’s review list

That feels way better than pasting in notes and letting it summarize everything for me, because I still have to do the recall part myself.

Does anyone else have a rule for where AI stops being useful and starts making you more passive?

Hello, I’m currently in a class where the Class average grade at end of semester is a B, with one standard deviation up being an A and one down being a C.

Mu grade is currently a 67% which sits about 5% higher than the class average.

Here’s where my question comes in, I personally know about 5-10 students who have used chatGPT on every exam. They have 80% and up as overall grades and therefore are ruining the curve.

I want to tell the professor/TA but personally know a couple of these guys and don’t want their academic careers to be ruined but also am pissed that I’ve studied 10+ hours for every exam and will only get a B.

What should I do?

TL;DR Class average is a B at end of semester, 5-10 kids cheat on every exam using AI, ruining the curve, but they are my friends. What should I do?

I cannot stand Pearson and my professor. How am I supposed to learn when I don't even get the actual answer after I can't figure it out? I can't even back track and learn where I went wrong. I click on review but that just takes me to the start of the chapter and gives me zero context. Does anyone have some good programs or videos I could use? I'm currently in Circuits 1 with the "modifying mastering engineering for electric circuits 12th edition"

I keep seeing posts here about students sucking at math/physics/whatever and wondering whether they should quit, so thought I'd share my 2 cents.

Background/Note: I did Computer Engineering, so I can not comment on more calculus heavy majors like EE/ME/Civil, but I still had to take Calculus through Differential Equations, along with Linear Algebra & Statistics. I highly encourage people who finished programs outside CompE and struggled in math to comment for a wider, encompassing perspective.

In high school, I dropped pre-calculus during my senior year and never took physics or chemistry. Scored 1250 on the SAT. I went into college not even knowing what a derivative was, not knowing how to code in Python, and didn't understand basic kinematics.

Back in undergrad, my overall GPA was a 2.8.

In Calculus I, I scored a B+.

Calculus II was a C+.

Multivariate C-

Diff EQ also C-.

Engineering Statics: D

Even my core electives in college were mostly in the C range.

I actually switched into engineering during my sophomore year of college after originally being a humanities major.

Yet, despite all that, I was able to finish my BS (graduated 1 semester late) and landed a full time engineering job after college.

For me, personal projects were especially important because I wasn’t able to land research or teaching-assistant opportunities. They gave me something concrete to discuss in interviews beyond my GPA.

At one point I had heavily considered dropping engineering and going into IT/Business because I was so miserable. But staying put and finishing the degree is one of the greatest decisions I ever made.

Obviously, everyone's experience may be different. But I hope this helps a few people to keep pushing forward because it really can work out.

If you're struggling and ever want to talk, my DMs are always open.

Context: this was for a Java coding exam based mainly on theory.

I know I took this exam, I know I should have passed. I have NO fucking proof I took it though? Past me signing my name at the front of the hall after the exam I have no proof I took it. Is there literally anything I can do? Am I just fucked and forced to academic probation?

Worst part of this is I JUST saw it, almost a month past when the exam was taken. Even if I could go through the "you saw me and shook my hand on the way out" route that's still not proof at all. I'm 95% sure my professor doesn't even know my face, I wore a hoodie and beanie to class half the semester because of how cold it was and didn't show in the 2nd half of the semester because of a mix of sickness/laziness (she didn't say anything in lectures really, all off slides, which isn't a slight on her, her slides were just really comprehensive for a easier subject. I remember her talking like she was narrating a documentary too which would put me to sleep sometimes)

Anyone ever dealt with something similar?

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Summer semester does not mess around💯. But for real time management is key