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George R Powell @Setu-Firestorm

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Lessons learned the Hard Way

Posted by Setu-Firestorm - November 1st, 2007


Never take two classes in the same semester that require you to memorize 2 pages of functions, formulas, identities, and all sorts of other crap that you're supposed to use to solve equations....unless you're a machine, which I'm not. I forget things up to 5 mintues after somebody says them to me, and I've likened my memory capacity to that of trying to spray water from a garden hose into an open trash can from 10 feet away: you might get something in there but chances are most of it's just going to graze the top edge and spray out away from its destination.

So yeah, I failed yet another Trig exam, which means I'm most definitely going to need to take it next semester. The irritating thing about it was: I knew all the identites and formulas I needed to know to solve quadratic equations involvinng trigonometric functions, but there would always be one small detail, like a + or a - that I would confuse with another one and that would throw off my answer quite a freaking bit.

(Example: I had to find a half-angle of a cosine, which with the correct formula would read: cos(x/2)=(+/-) "square root of (1 + cos(x)) / 2". And as luck would have it, I got it confused with the half-angle rule for sine and wound up doing "1 '-' cos(x)" hence my answer was way off.)

It's not as irritating flunking tests as much as it is irritating finding out that every problem you got wrong was some stupid crappy thing that you either weren't thinking of at the time or simply confused for something else.

So yeah, needless to say, I'm a bit PO'd about it.


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