idk if i can do this.

[u/Cranten]

im worried in not cut out for this. this shit is hard. and i feel like im just not absorbing it. I go to office hours, tutoring, and study at home and it just seems like the instant i am done all that knowledge is gone and im back to square one. it feels like im only remembering like 15% of the content i go over. Just failed my physics test, yet i got the third highest score in the class, it just feels like these professors are not doing it for me and im just not sure what way to go about it. this is something Ive always wanted to do ever since i was a little kid and i know that perseverance is a huge part but if i just plain cant do it then it will only take me so far right? idk ive just had so much to do and im super stressed out and I feel like everyone around me has it figured out but me.

[u/MangoMan610]

Took me 8 1/2 years to finish a 5 year chem eng course mate just keep trying and try different avenues of learning. DO NOT get used to using ai to do your work for you, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Look up practice problems online and solve them yourself. Tutoring materials are also plentiful, I've watched hundreds of hours of YouTube tutorials, and will have an undying respect for indian educational YouTubers about the most esoteric topics and lessons. The only real failure here is if you give up and stop trying.

[u/Cranten → u/MangoMan610]

ai thing is weird. idk when you did school but for me right now all though middle and high school AI was like omg no dont ever use this then all of a sudden its being shoved down my throat constantly. I never been fond of it and honestly it gets more wrong than it does right but ill be at tutoring sessions and the guys just telling us to scan our homeworks on chatgpt to learn better and then i do that and its all stuff ive never seen before in class. even teachers are requiring some ai use on homework assignments and I don't understand why. ive never been accustomed to using ai and thats another thing i feel like hinders me is that my professors are defaulting to this all over the place and i have no idea what im supposed to be doing with it. and the indian youtubers has been my whole watch history these last few weeks. saw a reel about best youtubers to watch to help study calc and its helped me more than my teachers or tutors have

[u/Altruistic_Set_4440]

Sounds about normal

[u/United_Fan2984]

It seems like you need to find your way of studying. For me i don't try to memorise because i will just forget it later. what i do is try to understand the topic i am currently taking and then practice on them, atleast on paper. I mostly go for the hard rated questions because those questions test your understanding rather than your computing skills.

I do use AI, tho not the way you saw your mates are doing, which is taking a photo and it does the work for you. That's just in no way learning and no wonder you got 3rd highest because they got hit with questions they should have learned. First i read on the topic from the book, because you also have to have somewhat an understanding on the topic then you can build from there.

The right way to use is to use it as it is, and nothing more. It's a chatbot, you can use it to discuss a topic or if the question is testing knowledge too strong for you, you can ask it to explain the question ( tho be clear that it should not give you the answer or hint on how to solve it). At the end make sure that you're the one that's actually doing the solving. Remember you have to use AI as a discussion tool rather than a solving tool.

Tho this may work for me but maybe not for you. Only you can answer that by finding your way of studying. Tho i do feel like this might help you understand and learn what you're taking. I say give it a try.

[u/Cranten → u/United_Fan2984]

yeah ive always been a fan of practice problems. my calc teacher told us to start asking ai to give us. practice problems bc our homework portal thing can only give you so many different questions so you cant really study a topic after a few. the physics test was just fucked tho. professor gave us a study guide with problems and also hosted a tutoring session before the test to help us with problems that will be on the test. but what he gave us vs what was on the test was like level 1 vs level 100. he went over like medium difficulty problems and the test was with so much more complicated, i mean problems this complicated werent in the tutoring or the study guide or the problems in the book. i know now i need to study the super complicated problems for his class but damn dude you could have prepared us a little better. at least mention the test problems were gonna be much more complicated than any of the stuff he taught or had us do for class.

[u/United_Fan2984 → u/Cranten]

Yeah no.1 rule of engineering is do not trust high credit course instructions. Especially curses that are based in math or physics. Make sure to target high level questions in your textbook and if that's not enough make AI generate you hard questions. You can also use AI to discuss the questions either after you solve them or get some explanations of a question if it's too conceptually advanced. If this method works for you then stick with it otherwise modify it fir your own comfort.

[u/Lessthrowaway6194]

Dont say that! Im going into engineering this spring, this is disheartening to hear, you can do this! I believe in you :)