Are you kidding me?!?!

[MissPrissy]

Most often a college education isn't necessarily about education. Alot of it is your tenacity at finishing the courses and the end result is to be a well rounded type person.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by a educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilised in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society. (Albert Einstein, 1949, On Education)


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few. 
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. (Einstein, 1954)


Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. ‘Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum’ [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves] (de Montaigne)

 

[NRacine]

I understand where you are coming from. In my college stats class, we were taught Venn diagrams. You know, when you draw two overlapping circles and put things that are the same in the overlapping part. Yeah. My prof was amazed that I had learned this in third grade. Now I am teaching myself how to do analysis of covariance because, needless to say, we didn't get nearly that far, and I need to do it for work.

Just remember, that there are some people in that class who are moving much slower than you and who will actually need to do the die rolling thing to learn. You need the credit toward your degree so you have to sit through it. Just get the A and move on.

And a previous poster was right, you will need to know a LOT about statistics as a vet. Try reading a veterinary journal article, something with a drug trial. EVERYTHING in it is altered, modified, analyzed, and compared with complex stats. Welcome to science!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

You can often test out of math and English classes in college that are too "low level" for you. Check with your advisor. They can help you to arrange a placement test. It may save you money.

 

[MoodyChicken]

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This is what I tested into. Everything else in the class has been exactly what I needed, this just happened to be thrown int there too. I'm not the greatest at math, but I really hate doing repetitive work.

 

[SpringChickens]

I know it's hard, but teachers use this repetitive stuff to segway into more difficult topics (at least they usually do). Just hang in there, and be thankful for an easy section!!