Originally Posted by Silvercord
I have an incredibly easy time knowing the "right stuff to do" in order to get really really freaking high grades in calculus, but, like, I want to understand things at a really fundamental level. I always want to read *every* proof and memorize it and understand why it works and know how to derive it in my sleep. I've even got sick of not knowing how sqrt, sine and cosine works on my ti83 so I read how to do it and programmed my own sqrt sine and cosine functions!