Why is Calc 2 so hard?
Alternate title: "How many times do you beat your head against a wall before something sticks?" The first time I took Calc 2 was my second semester in college. I wanted to prove to people that I could in fact be a computer scientist, so I decided to study under the most difficult professor. If I could take it with the hardest professor, and pass, then surely I could prove everyone wrong. Surely, I was truly good enough to be a computer scientist. Spoiler alert: That's not what happened. I realized what was happening and dropped the class. I tried retaking it over the summer, then failed. I waited to retake it again, and finally passed. Now, I could sit here and say that "if I just took the class with an easier professor" or "if I just studied ahead of time" or even "if I just took a break from school and waited for things to get better" that things would be different. And that's true, they would be different. But at the time, I was so co...