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Edited by Love Sosa:
2/3/2013 4:59:04 AM
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Someone explain to me why why pre-medicine needs Calculus
>doctor from Harvard told me he never used it once (Orthopedic Surgeon)
>doctors at my moms work forgot how to do calculus
Please explain why we have to waste 2 years of college taking shitty ass classes. Also I feel college doesn't help us grow as a student. We should be able to pick our major right away and take mostly classes that relates to it. I'm at a liberal arts school and I woke up o grab me a cold pop, and I thought someone was bbq'ing. Sweet jesus it was a fire. AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR LIBERAL ART CLASSES MIXED IN WITH SCIENCE.
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I'm assuming that it has more to do with assessing your intelligence than it has to do with being useful in your later life. Sadly, the current system relies heavily upon arbitrary things like this.
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Its your program's method of weeding out. Every program has weed out classes.
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then can you explain to me why mechanical engineering requires biology? Cuz im taking bio right now and it seems absolutely useless.
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1 ReplyUnderstanding higher levels of mathematics translates to a bigger brain, it's very simple. You might not use it later on but you have proved you have the ability to think critically/logically/mathematically etcetera As for one example of calculus' usage in medicine, the pharmaceutical field requires it to calculate the time period of a drug's presence in a bodily system.
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Makes more sense than giving chemistry to computer engineers.
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It's to make sure you fail so we wont be plagued with the oodles of malpractice you're destined to give. Thank god/jeebus/allah/yaweh/buddah/ziere/zues/haruhi for gateway classes that are supposed weed out the failures.
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to give you some transferable skills so when you inevitably fail to follow your DREAM CAREER PATH you're not a skilless waste of space with a hundred thousand dollars of debt and no job prospects also an understanding of calculus is essential for an understanding of statistical methods, which is essential for any scientific field.
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1 ReplyThere is a really weird range in medical doctors of scientific and mathematic ability. After all, it was medical doctors that brought us the vaccine scares, homeopathy, and proclaimed women cannot get pregnant from -blam!-. Others, on the other hand, do extremely advanced work on curing diseases, tracking mutation of viruses, and trying to analyze and prevent epidemics. Some use it, and some don't.
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Let me put it this way: If you lack the critical thinking to perform single variable calculus, I don't want you operating on me. But to answer your question directly, they do it to test your critical thinking capabilities. A lot of your classes in the first two years are solely there to weed people out.
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So that the college can charge you some more money. Thats literally the answer.
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To see if you have the ability. Just like here you need a European language, Science, etc. to get into the majority of courses in college. Like when do I use German or Spanish in Archaeology?! It's simply to test your capabilities.
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5 RepliesThe same reason a Comp. Sci. major needs to take English. It's just [i]there.[/i]
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2 RepliesTo weed out complainers like you. and to teach you that you will have to do things that you don't like. What if you think its a waste of time to fill out "shitty ass" medication paperwork?
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13 RepliesIf you can't figure out Calculus, why would I trust you to keep me healthy?
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lol...
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Calculus is fun. Your teachers are doing you a favour. Stop being so ungrateful.
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If you can't figure out Calculus, why would I trust you to keep me healthy?
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That's why I'm going to a technical institute. Do shit that's actually relevant.
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Just to weed out people.
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Because the university wants money. Thats why you have to take all kinds of pointless shit in college. Total cash grab here in MERICA
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Dude, it's just the concepts you need to get. Half of the math/calculus stuff you learn in school in really only done by computers outside of school/university. Even engineers probably will never really need to 'know' how to do calculus since their computers plot/simulate everything.
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Figure it out, college boy.
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1 ReplyIf you think Calculus is hard, you're going to have a hard time being a Surgeon.
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4 RepliesDont you need to find the instantaneous rate of change for certain medicines and liquids? I'm pretty sure you need these concepts and mathematical application.
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6 RepliesThis whole post just reeks of "wahhh caculus is too hard!!"
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I couldn't tell you why I need two levels of calc & diff eq. for Marine Biology either.
