Karen Panetta

Karen Panetta

Dean for Graduate Education; CEO and Co-founder, Tessera Intelligence, and Sea Deep, Tufts University
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  • Bailey Swift

    Added Friday, January 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM

    I'm a female high school student that is really interested in doing engineering. I'm not sure that I can major in engineering due to not having taken calculus as a junior in high school. I plan to take pre-calculus by senior year but won't be able to take calculus. Even if I haven't taken Calculus yet, could I still major in engineering?

    I have a lot of self doubt for not taking calculus yet. I also feel a lot of self doubt that I won't get into any engineering college program because ...

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  • Added Friday, April 26, 2024 at 3:11 PM

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    I'm a female high school student who really loves things such as cars, motorcycles and planes but I didn't grow up with an aptitude for math like most people. I would give up easily in my math classes and take shortcuts. I can understand the principles behind it and appreciate how structural math is, but I can't apply it myself. I am ...

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    Karen Panetta, Tufts University
    Answered Monday, May 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM
    YES! Who says you are not good in math? Your grades? These are skills that you develop as you use them. If you learned to play an instrument or a sport, you know that those things take practice. Math is no different!
    You learn to use math and the more ...