Got a B in college algebra!!

[neverlosethefeeling]

Hey man... I got a B in college algebra too! Pissed me off to no end. I e-mailed my professor (this was last spring) to ask her wtf happened. I got like a 75 on the final (which, according to her was one of the highest in the class) and she didn't curve it. She thought I should consider myself "lucky" to have gotten a B because of the final grades were D's. REALLY?!

I was doing "college algebra" in the 7th grade! How did I go thru high school doing much more advanced stuff, then get to college algebra and get a fuggin B?

Just drink it off.

[Jase]

And lol @ the imaginary number conversion problem. "poo just got real." Reminds me of the good old "proof" of 1=0.

Unlike the 1=0 proof, this equality is 100% correct.

Each step can be verified, heck even google will automatically calculate it for you.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=i^i&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=10817a9f1863ec02

[Happy Panther]

Math major here.

Still no idea what i is

[c0r]

first college general math class i took i failed, fall term, freshman year.

this did wonders for my GPA.

[Jase]

for realz?

i = sqrt(-1)

[Razzy]

"Imaginary" numbers are just used to represent the roots of negative numbers, since no solution to x^2+1=0 could be found in the realm of real numbers. Basically it's just an easier way to express a root of a negative number when dealing with polynomials that don't work out easily. To my knowledge they don't have any real application in traditional mathematics but do play an some role in algebraic structure.

[Dpantherman]

math is for losers

[KillerKat]

I hate math. I studied my ass off just to barely get a C in college algebra.

[SorthNarolina]

At Clemson Calculus II is the most failed course easily. Most people cope with the lower ones pretty easily though.

One of my surveying courses ended up being the hardest math I took because our textbook suuuuucked and our classes were about 45 mins long.

[Happy Panther]

for realz?

i = sqrt(-1)

No i know that much.

But sqrt(-1) means nothing to me

So there is no way I could conceptualize the rest of the excercise

[Dpantherman]

who cares about x. dont need x. don't need pi either. except this kind...

[Dpantherman]

i can't give anymore

[KillerKat]

lol my instructor pretty much said it was all useless

[Jase]

No i know that much.

But sqrt(-1) means nothing to me

So there is no way I could conceptualize the rest of the excercise

Well there's your problem.

If God meant for math to be conceptualized, he would have stopped before he invented differential equations.