Drooling Over the Official BFR Pics is Going to Make Me Fail My Calc Mid-Term

[greenwizard]

If each picture contained a multi-variable calc formula I might just pass...

Anyone else have stories of the injustices perpetrated by the sheer awesomeness of Ernie Ball. Share them, and we can share in our blissful misery.
Meanwhile, the Fen*** fans have no such distraction and are making me look bad.
*grumbles
Greenwizard

 

[Eilif]

If my wife were on the forum, she'd complain about the four brand new EBMMs in four years...

 

[Rossie]

OMG...
I need to dive back to my pile of CPA and CFA books...

 

[silverburst]

Let me count the times I have used calculus since I graduated from college.


Hmmm. Still waiting to think of one.

 

[fbecir]

If my wife were on the forum, she'd complain about the four brand new EBMMs in four years...

Come on ! There are four fashion collections every year ! A Chanel dress is more expensive than a BFR ... Besides, we keep our guitars for years (even if we take weight !). Our delicious wifes change their "garde-robe" (wardrobe) more often !

 

[the24thfret]

Let me count the times I have used calculus since I graduated from college.


Hmmm. Still waiting to think of one.

This is true for me as well, but it bothers me a lot when I look at my students' 9th grade geometry or algebra homework and I can't figure it out.

Study your calc, so as to not embarrass yourself. Look at your ball when you buy one!

 

[silverburst]

True. Think of Calculus as the 8 bucks that you need to get over the toll bridge of life. You won't have to pay that specific toll again.

 

[whitestrat]

If my wife were on the forum, she'd complain about the four brand new EBMMs in four years...

Nah... I think she'd thank God there were only 4...

 

[greenwizard]

True. Think of Calculus as the 8 bucks that you need to get over the toll bridge of life. You won't have to pay that specific toll again.

Inspiring!

 

[Beth]

I'm sure there's some calculus in a BFR... at least some trig...

 

[GuitarHack]

I have an electrical engineering degree and a minor in math, but when I hear the word "calculus" anymore, my first thought is that it's a new band's name.

 

[Eilif]

I am SO glad I'd swallowed my drink before I read this.

Nah... I think she'd thank God there were only 4...

 

[73h Nils]

I have an electrical engineering degree and a minor in math, but when I hear the word "calculus" anymore, my first thought is that it's a new band's name.

O RLY?

I'm pretty sure I'll need it for Mech. Eng...although, you never know

 

[savannah_sean]

My aunt is a civil engineer and she told me that she hasn't needed anything beyond calculating the slope of a straight line...

I teach calculus for a living, and it's no easy feat trying to get people interested in it.

 

[Kristopher]

Beyond the fact that it's math, I don't even know what calculus is.

 

[JohnnyD19]

I teach calculus for a living, and it's no easy feat trying to get people interested in it.

You are a brave soul

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

My aunt is a civil engineer and she told me that she hasn't needed anything beyond calculating the slope of a straight line...

I teach calculus for a living, and it's no easy feat trying to get people interested in it.

Sean, my high school teacher sucked at teaching calculus. From the moment class started the lights would go out and the overhead projector would go on. In fact, she was such a bad teacher that I refused to do anything in her class and took the F. Then, after my first semester in college, I brought my report card in to show her my 4.0 which really chapped her ***

A good teacher makes a world of difference, motivation is a difficult achievement for each student. I wound up enjoying the way my college calc professor taught so much that I took calc 2.

Props to you for doin what you do! You play a y2d so I know you've gotta be a great prof!

 

[savannah_sean]

Sean, my high school teacher sucked at teaching calculus.

pete,

well there are 75 kids down here in georgia this semester that are surely saying the same thing about me.

Not meaning to hijack the thread, the thrust of which was to share "injustices perpetrated by the sheer awesomeness of Ernie Ball"...well, Greewizard, how about this: those same official BFR pics are keeping me from planning the perfect calculus lecture, the one that will make everything crystal clear to my students, from the epsilon-delta definition of a limit, all the way to the fundamental theorem...

back to hijack- Kristopher, calculus is, roughly speaking, the mathematics that describes how quantities change: orbits of planets, population growth, the velocity of air through your windpipe as it contracts when you're trying to dislodge a chicken bone (seriously! I assigned this as a homework problem today) and so forth. Do you need to know that in order to get through the day? No, of course not...but my other option was cleaning toilets for a living & the pay isn't nearly as good.

 

[glockaxis]

I went as high as triginometry. They tell me that was good math (I don't remember a dang thing). I recently purchased a soroban from Japan as all I need to know is the basics. Sounds to me like being distracted by BFR's is the only legitimate excuse for bombing a calculus midterm.

 

[greenwizard]

I went as high as triginometry. They tell me that was good math (I don't remember a dang thing). I recently purchased a soroban from Japan as all I need to know is the basics. Sounds to me like being distracted by BFR's is the only legitimate excuse for bombing a calculus midterm.

Any Ball is good really....

Sean, I wanted to personally thank you for taking on the task of teaching calculus. My high school calc teacher was truly a role model. He did skip the epsilon-delta definition though, which is screwing me right now because we have to use the three dimensional equivalent now....
Good luck in your teaching endeavors! And good luck juggling that with BFR drooling time!
Greenwizard