Yes it actually can be very useful depending on what job you decide to make a career out of.

My grandpa told me a story once. He told me that he saw one of his students that had complained day in and day out about the subject at hand. My grandpa asks him ' so ya ever use what I taught ya? ' to which the man groans ' every single day of my life '

The man was an architect.

I hate Calculus... Haha. I find it difficult to find real world applications for most things. Of course, optimization and other things like that are useful. But series analysis? Polar Coordinates? Parametric equaions? Get real... :)

They are only useful if you want to teach calculus.

You know Windows?

You know Myspace?

You know basically any computer program, server, service and ect?

Calculus powers the algorithms behind them all.

Fuck yeah.

Well, I took Calculus 2 in highschool, thinking I was cool, and I've used it exactly 0 times in my entire life. Even in college the only math I took was required Algebra 2. On the plus side it made Algebra 2 a breeze, but I would have been better served to have taken geometry (that's right, I skipped geometry, wtf? why the hell did they let me do that? you use geometry like everyday)

Anyway, take it if you have any plan to even maybe pursuing engineering or something similar, but unlike algebra and geometry, there's not that much use for it at the super market or when you're installing cabinets.

Unless you just like math, which would be weird.

It's meaningless.

It's outdated.

I bet u 300$ that 85% of the Calculus textbooks do not have a single picture in them.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, then it wasn't advanced incubus we were studying?

If you never find a specific use for Calculus it is still useful. Simply having the knowledge is useful. Why not learn it?

Calculus is used a lot in physics.

But the point of learning something is that it exercises a different part of your brain, or rather, by learning a new subject you are learning how to think differently about things.

Calculus is a tool and by learning it you sharpen your logic skills.

Colleges attempt to produce well rounded individuals. Individuals that know different things and that are not one dimensional thinkers. If you're well rounded, then you can do some free association and come up with some funny stuff ;)

Reading from the comments above, oh lord.

Wow, they sure did a god damn good job masking the reality, and sinisterly re-directed government's force to do its own sneaky bidding.

no, all you ever need to know is how to buy groceries and pay bills. you dont need calclus for that.

Depends on the job you go into. I'm sure it's useful for engineering and physics type jobs at the very least. I was expected to take Finite math for an accounting major... and I failed the class...so awful... haha.