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Re:College Advice I Wish I’d Taken by ianai on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:08PM (#15524339)
As my math advisor said, even subjects like math are best conveyed person to person. There are subconscious and nonverbal communication factors that can’t be reproduced in a video or book.
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Re:College Advice I Wish I’d Taken by Alex3917 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:33PM (#15524642)
Sure, I was mostly referring to calculus and the other subjects you study as an undergrad though, where the trade books you can get on Amazon are generally much better than the textbooks that the university courses use.
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Re:College Advice I Wish I’d Taken by pjscott on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:06PM (#15524757)
If that's true then in my four years of college I never experienced those topics in the way that best conveys them.
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