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  Who the fuck said Calc 1 was harder than Calc 2? Calc 2 was notorious for chewing people up and spit... : MagicWishMonkey
  • I thought 1 was harder.. I took it 3 times until I had a teacher that explained it in a way that made it ... : strandgeck
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    I think the main issue with calc2 being so tough is that there are so many "special situations" that requ... : Prozium
    • Exactly. Pretty much every fucking problem on every test of mine in Calc 2 was a "special situation" one ... : The Grolar Bear
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    I think electroly said that the hardest part was where you're given an integral and you hve to figure out... : Demius
    • IMO the hardest part in Calc 2 is just all the rote memorization, particularly when you get to sequences ... : electroly
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  Were you allowed to bring a cheat sheet of trig subs or did you have to memorize them? : alias
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    had to memorize them : Demius
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      I wish teachers would do something like "1 or 2 sheets of paper anything you want, turn it in with the te... : alias
      • My physics teacher does this... you're allowed one cheat sheet and can put whatever you want on it.. just... : Demius
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  Calc 3 is the easier one. : yakz
  • Calc 3 was a cakewalk compared to 2 : smackpiece
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    ^^^^ Calc 2 was the hardest class I took in college, but everything after that was simple as hell. : The Grolar Bear
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      Oh .. been meaning to telly ou... i got accepted to CSUCI, just waiting on my application for SacState an... : Demius
      • Nice! Congrats, man. Let me know how that goes. : The Grolar Bear
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  bring a fancy calculator : crummynz
  • can't use any calculators in class. She doesn't have any need for them though... her tests are straightfo... : Demius
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  Calc 2 is the hardest. Calc 3 is the easiest. : dodob
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    Calc 3? We didn't have that. We had 1 and 2 and then had Diff Eq. Is that what Calc 3 is? : DonkeyPopsicle
    • Calc 3 = multivariable/vector calculus : electroly
    • i heard calc 3 is like calc 1 with multi-variables, and thats where you learn partial derivatives : Demius
    • Calc 3 is 3+ dimensional integrals and derivatives. Not quite Diff Eq. : alias
    • calc 3 for me was sequences and series.. after that it was multivariable calculus, which was easier than ... : dopeman
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  Calc 2 really be called The Dildo of Integration 101...math doesn't really get interesting/impossible to ... : r_Ed
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    I would say that this class is interesting.. im having more fun in this class than pre-calc classes... bu... : Demius
    • Ah but nothing blows ones mind like proving that there is a one to one correspondence between every whole... : r_Ed
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  i don't know anyone who would say that calc 1 is harder than calc 2. : dopeman
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    I remember asking the the question before i started taking calc, and it was split... little under half sa... : Demius
    • well, i think after reading this thread the answer should be clear :) : dopeman
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  2 > 1 > 3, and high level math proofs can suck a fuck : Audhuml4
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    Yeah but then everything after Calc 3 turns in to brutal mindfuck math. : Crimsonbeak
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      nah, the stuff you do as a CS major isn't that bad. i took discrete math, linear algebra, and differenti... : electroly
      • LA was theoretically easy, but god damn if i don't have a grudge against being tested on obscure proofs. ... : Audhuml4
• who says that!? I switched my major because of Calc 2 :( : bluewagon
• I think you are confused, everyone says Calc 3 is easier than Calc 2, not that Calc 2 is easier than Calc... : Crimsonbeak
• This is bullshit. CALC 2>>>>>>>>>>>CALC1>CALC3 : conandan
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  If Calc is making you cry, don't bother taking organic chemistry. BOND ANGLES : Boring Writer
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    they say theres a class that if you can pass, you'll get your degree... Apparently my college has a f... : Demius
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      the best way to succeed at a CS degree is to take as few hard sciences as humanly possible. you want to ... : electroly
      • i KNEW i should have taken that instead of Bio M01! : Demius
      • i took a bug class. aced it! : dopeman
• That's easy, the answer is x + c ;) : reelbk
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  Try Calc 4, prediction of future through math. My equation shows this post getting ignored. : chilln
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    actually i remember learning how to change a fraction to a decimal without a calculator, and i can't remm... : Demius
    • crap, supposed to be for Cihte below : Demius
    • you just do long division : electroly
• I'm in Intermediate Algebra. I learned how to change a decimal into a fraction : Cihte