u/Coconut_Splash2008

Title. Taking this course again this summer after doing dog shit on the midterm in the fall with H. Kassiri. he’s a good guy but fuck that marking murdered me.

anyways i was wondering what the best way to learn this stuff? I have no problem understanding how the solving tactics work, but when it’s time to actually solve a question i have no idea what to do, which is why i probably did so bad on the midterm. i thot i knew it cus i knew the concepts but had no idea how to apply them ig?

i don’t wanna make the same mistake again so if anyone has any tips pls help? in the fall i did all the assignment questions and his video shit but idk ig it wasn’t good enough

context: 20F 175cm ~66kgs and want to maintain once i reach 60kg ish. i maintained 70kgs in 2025 and was 100kgs in 2020.

for a good 2.5 months i've been eating around 1200-1300 cals a day given i don't do any extra exercise and avg abt 4k steps a week. now i want to start 30min treadmill and then a few basic body weight exercises every M/W/F and i guess i'll eat the protein bar that day. i know its not the best to have so many cals come from the bars but idk what to replace it with that doesn't take a lot of time or energy to prepare.

i don't have such a great relationship with food but this is my longest run with the least amount of mess ups so im trying to stick with it. kinda messed up april cuz of my birthday which meant eating junk for a good 2/3 days and then my friends came over during break so yea a few messy days im not proud of but each day is a new day. i usually eat all this around 12-1pm and then nothing for the rest of the day.

anyways if u have any tips or concerns or anything at all pls lmk, i want to be better.

• 100 1 apple
• 70 10 almonds = 5g
• 30 20 raisin
• 100 10 cashews = 2g

shake:

• 170 -- 1 scoop protein powder = 30g

• 100 -- 1 sp peanut butter = 3g

• 35+35 -- 2 cup almond milk = 2g

• 100 -- 1 banana = 1g

• 70 -- 1 cup frozen berries = 1g

• 10 -- 1 frozen spinach cube = 1g

• 100 1/2 cup cottage cheese = 13g

• 120 2 rye bread = 5g

• 130 fiber bar = 2g

+ on m/w/f

• 190 protein bar = 21g

cals: ~1200 or ~1360

protein: ~85g

Hi, I took MATH 2015 over the winter semester with Arash Islami (but I think the course was mainly managed by Alexey), and although I did decent on the midterms, I did dogshit on the final and it wasn't curved so I passed with a D+. I'm wondering if I should retake it again this summer with Alexey and try to get higher.

The course is S1, which I'm not sure if I should be concerned about or not, and I also heard that now they don't take your highest mark from a retake, but your latest mark, so if I somehow manage to get worse than a D+ this time around, I'll be doubly fucked.

So I wanted to ask if anyone has had any experience taking this over the summer and if I should invest or just take the D+ and worry about retaking if my GPA becomes a serious problem.

honestly just asking this cuz i was looking at how many courses i have left to do (im in second year comp eng) and yea bros we looking at a good 2029/2030 grad and its even worse cus i cant even guarantee ima pass so now i have to extra plan incase i don’t pass a course and idk bro it srsly sucks.

i guess i just wanna know if anyone else feels this way and how to overcome it or just accept it? i know the only way to fix this is to get better at passing courses but that’s not some overnight shit like ???

and i just feel bad cus my dad rlly just wants me to get this degree and get a job so he won’t have to work so much but idk the situation is just so fucked and the worst thing is i don’t even wanna do comp eng im only doing it cuz he asked and im not even good at it.. fuck bro anyone else feel lost like this?

my only plan rn is to take it slower like two EECS courses with electives so i have a higher rate of getting good or whatever but idk man just feeling lost and a little scared like always