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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Two big ones come to mind.
1. freshman year of college, I'm enrolled as a computer science major. First day of school I go to class X (whatever it was), Class Y (whatever that was) and then Calculus I. I sit there for an hour or so. Class ends. I walk directly to the registrar's office to change my major and decide I'm going to law school because I didn't understand a single word out of the Professor's mouth. (it was only later that I learned that many CS majors squeak by with Cs and Ds in calculus because calculus isn't all that critical to a CS degree. I'm thinking I'm going to fail, but apparnetly nobody fails calculus...)
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Maybe not all out failing, but they don't let you move to the next level of calculus with a D or lower. You'd be surprised at how many people at UMSL, by the time they get through Calc III have taken each class twice. One kid in my class, he passed Calc II, and then got a D in Calc III, at which point they noticed that his instructor actually gave him a high D instead of a low C in Calc I, so he had to start all over. Though they did reimburse him for superflous coursework.
And Calc I ain't got shit on the middle of Calc II, integration by parts and substitution.