Ap Calculus And Student Success Essay

Another class that is helping me grow as a student through skills for academic success is AP Calculus. I’ve always been sort of good at math but this class was nothing I had expected it to be. Typically, in math you learn the rule or the formula and then you just use it straightforward. Calculus is anything but straightforward. In this class you learn the rule and formula but you are expected to figure out how to use them in a number of different ways. Other math classes have been tests of skill but Calculus is a test of skill and problem solving. This class has taught me that college may be a bit more difficult than I thought. I am learning that everything is not so straight forward. Some thing's require a higher level of thinking that I need to be prepared to give. This higher level of math is teaching me that there are more layers to things than we think. To be successful we need to be able to see farther than just the surface. …show more content…
I always see my peers stop putting in effort when things start to get difficult. They say things like, “I already know I’m going to fail so I'm not even gonna try”. The problem with this is that you're shooting yourself in the foot by doing this. You are significantly decreasing your own chances of success if you don't give it your best shot. In addition to that, the way to success is paved by failure. Every failure comes with its own set of lessons to help you be more successful in the future. By Giving up or stop trying you completely miss the lesson and you’ll continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. Always remember that you miss 100% of the shots you don't