Who do we think we are?

I pretty much did jack shit in high school (skipped a lot during each year, and started smoking tons of pot in my last year) and now I'm basically the equivalent of Bubbles. Fucking cart boy. Soon I'll be living in a shed.

Don't be like me @Iron Wizard.
 
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I did fairly well in high school but college made me fucking hate my life and gave me legitimate thoughts about killing myself. Looking back on it I had no one to really help me plan what's was doing and I had no goddamn clue. Workload was too much and I finally just quit before I decided to go suck a shotgun barrel.

I'm sure my life could be better but I've been working in the oilfields for a while now. Long hours but I've got a new car, I'm making payments on my own house and I have an entire room dedicated to music. Shit could have turned out worse.
 
I took honors level math all 4 years in high school and that included AP Calculus. Left that entire AP test blank because my teacher sucked and he didn't teach me anything. The good part is that when I took the Calculus that all the business majors take, I got an A because it was all rehash of AP calc but at a general level. People getting 40s on tests for FOIL method of factoring. That is Algebra, dawg! You don't belong in Calculus if you can't even do that.

Years later when I started studying for the actuarial exams, I had to reteach myself the basics again. I skipped the trigonometric portions of calc because it's not relevant to the exams, but other than that the only things I had difficulty with re: teaching myself were:

1) Implicit Differentiation
2) Integration by Parts
 
Krow said:
I did fairly well in high school but college made me fucking hate my life and gave me legitimate thoughts about killing myself. Looking back on it I had no one to really help me plan what's was doing and I had no goddamn clue. Workload was too much and I finally just quit before I decided to go suck a shotgun barrel.

I'm sure my life could be better but I've been working in the oilfields for a while now. Long hours but I've got a new car, I'm making payments on my own house and I have an entire room dedicated to music. Shit could have turned out worse.
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Working in the oil fields must be interesting! Are you a geologist?
 
King Richard said:
College isn't for everyone...
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I wish I had waited and just joined the military right out of high school. Life would probably be better. However, I wouldn't be playing professional baseball right now probably so that's a positive.

The Ozzman said:
1) Implicit Differentiation
2) Integration by Parts
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Whenever I have specific example problems to guide me I can do anything; it's when I encounter new shit that I am completely useless. Fucking math.
 
Matt said:
Whenever I have specific example problems to guide me I can do anything; it's when I encounter new shit that I am completely useless. Fucking math.
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The key to being self reliant in math is not understanding the examples. It's understanding the definitions and theorems. I know they're the most difficult part to understand and typically contain loads of variables and math terminology. But knowing what the rule Actually says and not just cases when you can use it is immensely powerful. Because then it applies to all kinds of things you wouldn't have expected. Examples are just for clarification of the rule if needed. The rule itself is a proven mathematical fact (or definition) that applies to many, many examples.
 
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Relevant to the math conversation, My favorite 'Yo dawg' iteration:

functions.jpg
 
AllShallFall said:
Cool. My interest was piqued because I'm a geologist.
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If i were to spice it up a bit, I'd call what we do "environmental protection." We make the containments that keep all the fracking chemicals, oil, and radioactive shit off the ground and out of groundwater as much as possible until they can be removed. Once the frac is over, we remove and recycle the plastic and start again.

We do occasionally work with people who test soil samples (maybe somewhere under your umbrella?) at the large water impoundments (Jesus fucking hell the beautiful women that do soil sampling...)

Btw guys if you ever see a large, fenced off area of water in a strange spot that says "do not enter" on it.... That's not a challenge, if it's an impoundment for impaired water you could get very sick or die from being a dumbass and taking a swim.
 
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Krigloch the Furious said:
Man, Arnold has some huge hands
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He's just huge in general. Guy is hilarious too. He kept busting jokes and did a lot of improv that ended up making the final cut because it was so funny. Of course, he would have been even funnier if it wasn't for his two young male assistants that followed him around and laughed out loud everytime Arnold opened his mouth. Like, knee-slapping laughter. Dude has his own personal laugh track following him around.
 
So, new segment. Here, we ask someone a question. When they answer, they can either tag someone else and ask a question or they can direct a question back to the previous person.

@unknown

What's your biggest fear?
 
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