Alex Tir's Final Reflection

Hello to all and farewell to all.
This is my first post on this blog and my last post on this blog.
I will say what I have to say for the end of this year and the start of another.

It was a pleasure being with all of you this year in Claculus AB as an ASO student. I usually never had many classes with my graduating class, but this gave me another class to be with you all this year. For this final reflection, I am going to reflect on my entire two years of Calculus experience.

Starting off with Calculus my first year, I had a very easy time learning limits and derivatives. I would like to say that taking derivatives are probably the easiest thing to do, but when this concept is put into a word problem-format, sometimes I still make mistakes. There are always key words to derivatives: slope, rate of change, rate, maximum, minimum, etc. For limits, one thing that I always forget is that a limit can exist at a removable.

When I got to integration, things became a bit tougher. I actually learned integration by-parts when I was in Calculus, so we had harder integration. I'm pretty sure you guys didn't learn it, but that's okay.

I was a good AP Calculus student, but I was a bad Mu Alpha Theta Calc student when it came to integration. Mrs. Robinson would bash my head all the time whenever I missed an "easy" integration problem. Psh! It was easy to her. But entering into Calculus BC, I realized it was easy. I had more practice with integration, and I learned more advanced integration topics. Trigonometric substition is probably my favorite type, and partial fractions is always a fun puzzle to solve at times.

For you juniors this year who will be in Calculus BC next year, don't worry! Calculus BC is about 75% Calculus AB, so I became better at what I learned in AB through BC. You will basically learn a little more advanced ways of doing what you've already learned in AB.

If there is one thing in Calculus BC that I have to say, it is SEQUENCES AND SERIES ARE BEAST! The basic concepts of sequences and series are not too bad, but once you get to Taylor and MacClaurin Series, your mind will be baffled. For AP, you should memorize your series, which I didn't do until right before my AP test lol, but for working out of the book, your work will look ridiculous on paper, but you will be okay.

Anyway, I hope many of you can take a lot of things out of Calculus AB and bring it into Calculus BC or into college. For those of you who may not have understood things so much, or those of you who may have spent more time complaning than learning, or those of you who were too lazy to do some of the work, I apologize. Not on your behalf, but I apologize to you that you may not have gotten the best out of one of the best AP courses in the area.

Take care all! It was a pleasure. Good luck!