I think you're absolutely right about the ease of mathematics. If you're learning from someone who genuinely understand how and why it works, and wants to convey that understanding to his students, undergraduate subjects seem completely intuitive and you wonder how anyone could ever consider it hard. More rarely, if you have a really great textbook, you can experience the same thing.
And there really do exist good teachers of mathematics - plenty of them, actually. I've had the privilege to learn from some at uni. But you pretty much have to pick a college with the quality of the teachers in mind, and resign yourself to everything else (like the administration that wants the students dead, for example).
Of course, this just makes it more painful when you have the professors who don't know their subject or don't know how to teach it, because you're sitting there wishing you could jump up and say "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, DAMMIT!"
>> Global warming?? Heck, lets turn those telescopes around and look at the earth with them..that's understandable!!
There's only one way I can make sense of this segue.
"And in other news, Chicago was burned to the ground like a giant anthill! Boy, sure puts a face on global warming!"
Why driver's license photos? Given that it's going to be called upon when surveillance footage is available, it will be used mostly cases of shoplifting and some robbery. Of all types of criminals, those are probably the least likely to have driver's license photos on record, because they're the youngest and poorest demographics respectively.
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I think you're absolutely right about the ease of mathematics. If you're learning from someone who genuinely understand how and why it works, and wants to convey that understanding to his students, undergraduate subjects seem completely intuitive and you wonder how anyone could ever consider it hard. More rarely, if you have a really great textbook, you can experience the same thing.
And there really do exist good teachers of mathematics - plenty of them, actually. I've had the privilege to learn from some at uni. But you pretty much have to pick a college with the quality of the teachers in mind, and resign yourself to everything else (like the administration that wants the students dead, for example).
Of course, this just makes it more painful when you have the professors who don't know their subject or don't know how to teach it, because you're sitting there wishing you could jump up and say "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, DAMMIT!"
Yeah, pointless acts of mass malice have come to Second Life. Now it really IS just like the real world.
>> Global warming?? Heck, lets turn those telescopes around and look at the earth with them..that's understandable!! There's only one way I can make sense of this segue. "And in other news, Chicago was burned to the ground like a giant anthill! Boy, sure puts a face on global warming!"
Why driver's license photos? Given that it's going to be called upon when surveillance footage is available, it will be used mostly cases of shoplifting and some robbery. Of all types of criminals, those are probably the least likely to have driver's license photos on record, because they're the youngest and poorest demographics respectively.