I’m tired boss. I’ve had a really rough semester and I can’t look at my calculus without my eyes glazing over. Now that it’s time for the final I’m looking back at all the concepts I had “breakthrough” moments with… And I got nothing. Can’t remember a lick. I don’t have any gusto in me still, I’m already planning to retake the course but fuck me ive never experienced burnout like this.

Is this normal?

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    39·
    5 days ago

    Normal effect of burnout.

    Retake because of the grade you expect to receive? Or retake to absorb the concepts better on a second go around?

    If the latter, I recommend studying independently instead. There are so many online resources now that are better for learning than the traditional college lecture model.

        • canihasaccount@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          Can you link me some? I’d honestly really appreciate it. I’ve used Khan academy but it was too sparse on exercises

          Edit: spelling

          • untorquer@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            It looks like they did away with the mastery system for the banner thing?

            It’s quite possible you’re missing something from more fundamental maths. When i went back for an engineering degree i found through Khan academy that i needed to relearn 4th grade fractions. I just worked from there through every lessen from 4th grade up through calc 1 in one go. Took like 3 months but college level calc and above was a breeze with that strengthened foundation of knowledge.

            Then when other students asked me for help i saw them having the same issues. It’s really hard to tell an adult they need to work on 4th grade maths when they’re studying for a calc exam. It’s not their fault the classic education method gives you Swiss cheese knowledge.

            • canihasaccount@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 days ago

              I didn’t struggle with any of it when I went through it, I just have subsequently found that I didn’t retain many of the rules. The derivative’s power rule is about the only rule I don’t have to look up these days. I’d like an online resource that has a bunch of practice exercises to help drill that stuff into me.

              • untorquer@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 days ago

                I’m lamenting that Khan Academy had such a system in the past but it looks discontinued for a seemingly less useful one-and-done approach. Just throwing out the idea about gaps in knowledge in case.

                One option would be to find additional textbooks. I believe my math courses used an open source one.

                This looks similar maybe, I can’t recall: https://openstax.org/subjects/math/