Go to good university

>go to good university
>don't understand lectures and end up learning from shitbox community college
>explanations designed for brainlets like me, understand immediately

Anyone else do this?

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Teachers are just shitty, and don't give a damn, so they hide it behind a veneer of expectation.

You want to know if anybody else is a brainlet? Yes, there are more brainlets like you out there. There's your answer.

Yeah pretty much. I'm taking as many of the "weed out" courses at CC as possible and transferring them in. It's not that I've had any bad teachers, a lot of it is due to the departmental administration(in math at least) as well as test structure.

For example, calculus tests are multiple choice, so if you arrive at an answer which is correct, but not in the form they have on the test, you have to derive it which takes time away from the other questions. For example, if used logarithmic differentiation while calculating a derivative which totally would suck balls another way, you're fucked. At CC, where it's not multiple choice, once you get to an answer, which plugged in to a calculator equals the answer on test from my university, you get it right. Probably a shit example, but you get the idea.

I understand, because there are so many students, but I've never made a grade lower than a B in calculus courses at CC, but I got my ass handed to me at my university and dropped it to avoid GPApocalypse(gotta keep my 3.7 yo) despite killing it on homework and quizzes.

I go to a pretty good university as well, so no shame in going that route.

>allowed to take four sheets of paper to math test
>watch patric jmt videos on youtube and write down order of operations for every possible proplem
>get a 7 while not understanding a thing I did
>smarter students write down theorems and proofs and score a 10
feels bad being a lazy brainlet. luckily I'm an engineer and will never have to use any of that math ever again

You've heard about the glut of phds? There are a lot more qualified people than academic teaching positions, so a lot of highly qualified people end up teaching at CC. People who actually want to be teachers rather than researchers. The instruction is often far far better than at university.

I should have clarified, I'm still at university, I just watch the lectures of other places.
What the best universities achieve in terms of teaching isn't really very impressive. They take the best and give degrees to the best. As oppose to retard in ok grad out

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In that case, are you sure that you genuinely understand the material on the level your professor expects you to?

I've heard students say similar things (e.g., "X's YouTube videos are easier to understand than the lecture, so I just use those to study"), then proceed to fail every exam by 20+ points.

Hijacking this thread to ask a question that I hope some French Veeky Forumsentists can answer

Est-il possible pour un candidat américain de postuler (?) à l'X (pour les maths, évidemment) pour études premier cycle ? Si ceci (?) est le cas, comment puis-je faire ça ? Le site web de l'université (même la version anglaise) n'est pas du tout clair. Je serais reconnaissant si quelqu'un pouvait m'aider avec ça, sauf si cet examen-là (polytechnique.edu/gestion-concours/univ-int/pdf/maths_2016.pdf) est pour tels candidats, auquel cas il n'y a aucun intérêt à me postuler.

Is it possible for American candidates such as myself to apply to l'Ecole Polytechnique for undergrad (for math, of course)? If so, how do I do so? Not even the English version of their website makes it clear. I'd appreciate if someone could help with this--unless these entrance exams (polytechnique.edu/gestion-concours/univ-int/pdf/maths_2016.pdf) apply to aspiring undergraduates, in which there's no point in me applying.