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Default Looking for some insight (math majors)

I've really enjoyed math lately. I've decided to go for a math major.

Long story short, I could use some quick advice on the upper-level math courses (abstract algebra, real analysis, etc.). If I find Calculus II and III easy will I find these courses doable (or easy)? It's really been intimidating me. I don't have too many problems with Calc, but before I head down the road of a math major I just want to make sure I'm not going to run into any massive road blocks.

Also, I know I should be asking this to an advisor or professor, but I'm looking to get some insight before tonight is over (I've got my reasons).

If anyone could respond within the next few hours it'd really help me out.

Thanks.

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When you look out of your window what do you see? I see a non-linear mechanism unfolding in front of me. Why does Mathematics explain so successfully, this mechanism? Because she is born of the same fire, that which exists inside of me! Carefully molded by over 100,000 generations, the human mind simulates, replicates, and mimics the dynamics of the world it finds itself in as a successfully survival strategy: when in New York, act like a New Yorker. From that mimicry emerges a likewise non-linear mechanism: mathematics, which couldn't help but be in synergy with that, through natural selection, it attempts to mimic!

I don't know. Maybe not what you were asking for.
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I've really enjoyed math lately. I've decided to go for a math major.

Long story short, I could use some quick advice on the upper-level math courses (abstract algebra, real analysis, etc.). If I find Calculus II and III easy will I find these courses doable (or easy)? It's really been intimidating me. I don't have too many problems with Calc, but before I head down the road of a math major I just want to make sure I'm not going to run into any massive road blocks.

Also, I know I should be asking this to an advisor or professor, but I'm looking to get some insight before tonight is over (I've got my reasons).

If anyone could respond within the next few hours it'd really help me out.

Thanks.
it is possible for you to be good at calc and still have a hard time with higher math courses. they required a different kind if thinking. at the very least, it will take some getting used to
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