So, so true. I breezed through Calc I and then hit a brick wall in Calc II. I got halfway through the semester before giving up. I got my midterm back and saw I had failed horribly, so I stood up, walked out of class and went to th guidance office and changed my major then and there.
It makes sense to me just fine. I love math, and if I wanted would only require a few more classes to also have a bachelors in mathematics. Took a ton of math classes as electives/tech electives. What I meant was, at the time when you first take Calc II most people in the class aren't going to understand integration and/or why it's important, useful, and the basis of just about everything.
You can also contact the math department, talk to the dept chair or another professor. They should be able to give you a list of stuff to work on so you're ready to go.
It's never too late.
It's going to stick until you take a class like Numerical Analysis and you feel like a baby who forgot simple addition rules
Truth.
I kinda figured.
I think it depends on your instructor. My calc teacher was awesome, really helpful, never treated anyone like they had a dumb question or whatever, and just generally made the class an enjoyable experience. Some other people at my school had real trouble with their teacher. And one teacher is so tough on her students that a kid came in a tried to shoot her. Not that his imbalance was her fault, but my wife had her for statistics and she was a monster and generally made the class unfun, and had like a 40% failure rate.
This is the territory where the administration needs to step in and realize there's less something wrong with the students and more something wrong with the teacher.
If only! I think they do that to terrify and intimidate students who always got straight A's in high school. It's fucking retarded that you can get a 25% on a final exam and still pass the class because that was the average. Fake way to buff up the "prestige" of a program.
