Yeah, these are the things we did in our first semester, so I wasn't the only one thinking the curriculum is kinda nuts!
Thank you a lot for the explanations and the advices! I'll make sure to follow them. One of these days I might try using Matrix. Thanks again for the detailed response and the patience!!
Thank you very much, some help and tips would be super appreciated! What would you recommend doing?
These are the topics we did:
Combinatorics, Group Theory (Cycles, cycle decomposition, parity, order, subgroups, cyclic groups, homomorphisms, Generators and relations, permutations of Sn, generators), Number Theory (Bezout's Identity, Euclidean Algorithm, Euler's Totien function ϕ, Euler–Fermat theorem, congruences etc.), Modular Inverses and Equations, and the ones that tricked me the most, Abstract Algebra. I think these should be all.
Complex Numbers (with Polar coordinates and roots), Matrices (Matrix operations, trace and determinant, inverse, special matrices, ranks), Vector Spaces (subspaces, linear independence, coordinate vectors and change of basis), Linear Transformations (Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, and some other stuff), Inner Product Spaces (I literally know almost nothing about this)
Oh, I see! Having a teacher that makes things click for you is indeed great. It's kinda weird though, my teachers explain certain things with a lot of clarity, yet make a lot of other things needlessly complicated from my point or view.
Mmh, I'm 99% positive that there are no remedial classes in here. As for the tutor, I don't think I need one, since even the hard things I studied, with enough time I understood them. I was also a very good student in high school, so I don't think I have any learning disability. The problem was mainly practice and what I didn't study, as well as my disorganizaiton.
I'm not sure of how it works abroad, but here in Italy every exam is done multiple times and you can join that as many times as you want, within some rules.
For example, some people will do the same exams that I have just done in February, and if I wanted to I could take it with them, exchanging my current grade with a new one. I'd rather pick a date that is the furthest away from now though, something like May or June instead of February, so I can focus on these two after I've dealt with all other classes. These two seem to be particularly tricky.
Now that a semester passed we will have new classes, so I won't have these ones anymore (although I will have Analysis 1, which is still math, but Analysis 1 doesn't require much from Linear Algebra or Discrete Math so it's basically another section of math). Luckily because of this I don't have to delay any class, and I don't even know if it's possible to do this in Italy, since they have a very 'you-do-you' approach.
True. I think it also depends on the way it's taught, some really good teachers can make you like a class you would normally dislike. It works vice versa too, haha.
I love philosophy. Although you dropped, do you still read anything about it? I know outright studying can be very difficult with chronic illnesses. Hell, I can barely study with a cold.
Thank you. ❤︎ I will check if an academic advisor is avaible at my faculty, and if I meet any more problems I'll talk to them. These two were the first ones, so I think it's way too soon to consider dropping our or switching majors. Besides, to switch major would mean losing a year, and I wouldn't even know what to study for it to land me a job. Since my university major is just 3 years long, if I can manage, I'd rather to endure it. (With honors possibly... that dream is not yet dead!)
Thank you! But... is math the right subject for anyone, really? /s
Jokes aside, I am studying computer science. I think I'm pretty good at it, it's also what I studied in high school. It's just these classes who are particularly hard (and stressing)
Thank you ❤︎, I'm sorry to hear that you're in the same boat. It's true what you said about education, it really does feel like that. Solidarity and good luck with you medical licence exam!
Thank you ❤︎ You are right, it is true that, as Mao said, failure is the mother of success. The best thing to do in the face of defeat is to learn from it.
Basically, once the lessons concluded and they gave us a month off, I started by going over the program from start to finish, by using the notes for each lesson; afterwards, I began doing exercises that our teachers gave us to prepare. I already understand a few mistakes I did, for example it would have been better to study theory and then do exercises about what I just studied. Furthermore, I also didn't revise enough. Another error I did was relying exclusively on my university's material, which wasn't enough to give me full expertise (in my opinion).
Even r/Pics, the most liberal subreddit even concepted, is full of photos about this matter. On some others there is also the apparent close up of the guy who did this. I wonder how many people are waking up to the animosity of the empire, and how many still believe things will be fine once Trump is gone.
In the last few days it really feels like we're living in the weeks of history. Exciting times in the world...
Oh, and of course: