Hello actuarial community,
I need some advise about the value of college. I transferred from a community college to UCSB, a school in southern California with an actuarial program. In community college, I did pretty well: I got out with an associates degree in math with a 3.95/4.0 gpa, passed exam P, taught myself the value of learning, was active in the math club and helped organize a well attended problem solving lecture with a local prof from USF, got a small scholarship from the math department. On top of that I was a math tutor for two years, worked in a magic shop over the summer, and overall had a pretty decent experience.
I had high expectations of 4 year university, different from cc. I thought my professors would tell me a story and that there would be some continuity and coherence, and that if I did the homework, listened and participated in class, I could achieve. But I am severely disappointed. It's more of the same, just with harder tests. Professors are vomiting information on me, and I just can't see the value. I realize that no matter where I go, there's a distribution of professors. But mean teaching skills have dropped. I should check my sample size. Still though.
Speaking of harder tests, I am now on the verge of failing two of my courses in Economics and Financial Math. For stupid reasons. I make the most dumb errors, the in-attentional kind. I know what a partial derivative is, and especially how to compute it. But I still do it wrong under the pressure of a test. I feel like a fish out of water. If you ask me about it, I can give you a crystal clear explanation, but put my under testing pressure and it's a coin toss.
So I'm thinking about dropping out and teaching myself, passing some more professional exams, and......
This is what I don't know. Is this feasible?
Thanks,
Sega
I need some advise about the value of college. I transferred from a community college to UCSB, a school in southern California with an actuarial program. In community college, I did pretty well: I got out with an associates degree in math with a 3.95/4.0 gpa, passed exam P, taught myself the value of learning, was active in the math club and helped organize a well attended problem solving lecture with a local prof from USF, got a small scholarship from the math department. On top of that I was a math tutor for two years, worked in a magic shop over the summer, and overall had a pretty decent experience.
I had high expectations of 4 year university, different from cc. I thought my professors would tell me a story and that there would be some continuity and coherence, and that if I did the homework, listened and participated in class, I could achieve. But I am severely disappointed. It's more of the same, just with harder tests. Professors are vomiting information on me, and I just can't see the value. I realize that no matter where I go, there's a distribution of professors. But mean teaching skills have dropped. I should check my sample size. Still though.
Speaking of harder tests, I am now on the verge of failing two of my courses in Economics and Financial Math. For stupid reasons. I make the most dumb errors, the in-attentional kind. I know what a partial derivative is, and especially how to compute it. But I still do it wrong under the pressure of a test. I feel like a fish out of water. If you ask me about it, I can give you a crystal clear explanation, but put my under testing pressure and it's a coin toss.
So I'm thinking about dropping out and teaching myself, passing some more professional exams, and......
This is what I don't know. Is this feasible?
Thanks,
Sega
Need some advise
