I finally made it through the Integration Techniques unit test this week! 🥳 I managed to rewatch all the videos in the Trigonometric Substitution section, then got through the final exercise in the unit that I needed to redo – Integration using ‘completing-the-square’ – and then finished off the unit test this morning. This week I got a MUCH better understanding of… Read More Week 152 – Trigonometric Substitution: From Frustration to Understanding

I got smoked this week on KA. I didn’t get through the Integration Techniques unit test until Friday and spent Wednesday to Saturday trying to understand ONE question… And used 52 pages of notes trying to understand this question. 😳 I’m happy to say that I FINALLY figured out how to solve the question after spending around 7-8 hours… Read More Week 151 – 52 Pages of Notes, 8 Hours, and One Beast of a Problem

I felt like I wasn’t making much progress through KA this week but, looking back on my notes, I’m realizing that I actually got quite a lot of work done and made some decent headway. (Woo!) On Tuesday I made it through the Probability and Combinatorics unit test which was the final unit I needed to get… Read More Week 150 – Precalculus Complete: Back to Calculus 2!

I had another very successful week working through KA! By Friday I made it through the 7 videos, 2 exercises, and unit test in Matrices and then got through all 13 videos and 8 exercises in Probability and Combinatorics by the end of Saturday. It took me awhile to remember a lot of what came up in Matrices but, as is… Read More Week 149 – Two Units, One Week: Calculus 2 Is Calling!

I made a lot of progress this week and was able to finish off Trigonometry and Complex Numbers from Precalculus. There were only ~12 – 14 videos and a handful of exercises between the two units, but I also had to redo each unit test so it added up to a solid amount of work. I also got started… Read More Week 148 – Three Precalculus Units Down: Picking Up the Pace!

I’m writing this post for a second time now. Microsoft Word just crashed on me and so, after already spending ~2.5 hours writing this post, I’m starting from scratch and am basically not going to bother writing anything more for this post. This week I ended up passing the Calc.1 course challenge and tried to… Read More Week 147 – Calculus 1 Complete! A Detour Back to Precalculus

I decided this week that instead of doing a minimum of 1 hour of KA per day that I’d aim for a minimum of 1.5 hours per day. I managed to do it and, as a result, had one of the most productive weeks I’ve had in a long time! I FINALLY finished the Applications of… Read More Week 146 – Applications of Integrals Complete: The Calculus 1 Finish Line Is in Sight!

I didn’t pass the Applications of Integrals unit test this week. I ended up getting 3 of 19 questions wrong on my first attempt and I’m now sitting at 2 wrong of 9 attempted on my second attempt. I said last week that I’d be glad to do the test again in order to practice and get… Read More Week 145 – Five Wrong Answers, One Frustrating Lesson: Read the Question!

It turns out the cold I picked up last week actually WAS Covid. I can still feel it a little bit in my head and I’m still coughing a bit but, overall, I feel WAY better than I did a few days ago. I didn’t have the energy to do KA on Tuesday so I… Read More Week 144 – Back from COVID: One Step Closer to Finishing Calculus 1

This week I got hit with a cold that completely knocked me on my ass. I started feeling sick on Thursday and by Friday I had a 102.5° fever and spent the entire day on my back. I felt better on Saturday and Sunday than I did on Friday but I was still in rough enough… Read More Week 143 – COVID, Calculus, and Keeping the Streak Alive