When I was in my undergrad I took a math class that was perhaps one of the
first videotaped courses in the country (showing my age here?). It was
horrible! The instructor was not very clear, the TA was unobtainable and
just didn't care, and the required book was definitely under par.
Needless
to say, that if the courses were going to be like that I was wasting my time.
This turned me off from math in general and I avoided it like the plague for
many years, that is until I needed it to enter into my masters program. I was
able to get good grades in all the prerequisites, to get in the program, and
then left it all behind once again.
These courses do a much better job,
because there has now been many years of research in how to teach this stuff
effectively, and the teachers here _do_ care; Proof being in that they even
volunteer their own hard work as open courseware for others to learn and benefit
from. They earned my respect and I am now consuming everything I can get my
hands on (time permitting).
Now I am working on a new unification theory
and I am teaching myself what I need from relativity and thermodynamics, and I
am now kicking myself (hard) for all those wasted years that I had avoided math.
So much time wasted, because if I had those skills now I could be publishing my
paper already. I don't have deep enough pockets to hire the kind of
mathematician I need, nor do I know anybody who can do it, much less tutor it,
so I just need to do this the hard way.
A word to the wise, get all the
education you can while you are young enough to benefit fully from it! -- a
professional student, me.
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