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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/cube_drone/statuses/113851453891151980">Cube Drone (cube_drone@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:03:29 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cube_drone" title="cube_drone@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/18445-48-20241123050046.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cube Drone" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cube Drone</a></section><article><p>the trick to getting a degree in CS when you're bad at math is to... be... good at mythology. who knew?</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4400359#notice-8607862">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-19T07:03:29+09:00" title="Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:03:29 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cube_drone/113851453891151980" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cube_drone/113851453891151980">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3953043">It sounds like you, like me, are complete dogshit at high-level maths. (Me, 20 years ago: "the fuck is a complex number? there's an imaginary bit? okay, then why not just imagine any answer you want. 4938. Boom. Imagined.) This is a barrier to completing a CS degree but it can be overcome if you're persistent and lucky.I fixed it by flunking and retaking my university math courses a bunch of times, with different professors, until they managed to get a D or C- level of the content through my thick skull. I had to do extra well in other courses to keep my GPA up, but it helped that I was good at coding and writing.I took Calc 2 _three times_. That A+ in "Comparative Mythology" was really clutch at keeping the whole project afloat. (To this date I can tell you key details about the Iliad but I can't remember how to integrate a damn thing)Remember: the minimum passing grade in a university math course is all you need!</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/851/451/112/100/381/original/206a0fb113e972ac.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/851/451/112/100/381/original/206a0fb113e972ac.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Cube Drone (cube_drone@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:03:29 JST Cube Drone
the trick to getting a degree in CS when you're bad at math is to... be... good at mythology. who knew?
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1. It sounds like you, like me, are complete dogshit at high-level maths. (Me, 20 years ago: "the fuck is a complex number? there's an imaginary bit? okay, then why not just imagine any answer you want. 4938. Boom. Imagined.) This is a barrier to completing a CS degree but it can be overcome if you're persistent and lucky. I fixed it by flunking and retaking my university math courses a bunch of times, with different professors, until they managed to get a D or C- level of the content through my thick skull. I had to do extra well in other courses to keep my GPA up, but it helped that I was good at coding and writing. I took Calc 2 _three times_. That A+ in "Comparative Mythology" was really clutch at keeping the whole project afloat. (To this date I can tell you key details about the Iliad but I can't remember how to integrate a damn thing) Remember: the minimum passing grade in a university math course is all you need!
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