Most Hated School Class

[Macmaniac]

We all complain about school classes, but what is your most hated right now?
As for me it has to be Español, my teacher is the biggest pain in the world. She just does not stop handing out work and tests, then we have to a new project every week. I hope I survive!

[tpjunkie]

As I have an art history exam and paper due tomorrow, that is currently my most hated class.

[applemacdude]

Some people in my skool hate PE....I hate...Hmmmm nothing....I don't like computer class...we have no computers and a bitchy sub....

[Macco]

It would have to be Spanish for me too. Not that the class or the work is particularly difficult, just that it's sooooo boring. We spend half of the class going over homework, and the other half doing practice problems and stuff. It's just so uninteresting to me, and I can think of a million better ways to teach Spanish that wouldn't involve me falling asleep in class.
A close second for me would be math class. I'm in an honors class, a year above normal grade level (Algebra II honors, instead of Geometry), and still class is too easy for me. But the teacher never checks homework, which is sort of a plus.

[mstecker]

My worst was a law school class entitled "Ocean and Coastal Law". The professor had written the textbook, and I got stuck sitting in the first row on the first day because I was late. The way seating worked in my law school, that meant I had that seat for the rest of the semester. This meant that it was obvious when I didn't show up, which was almost all of the time (I had a full time job at NeXT on the side).

When it came time for the final (law school final exams are administered anonymously, and are 100% of your grade), I prepared for my usual drill of cramming the whole book in a few days - only to discover that the prof. had only used the book as a rough guide, and had ad-libbed most of the material (which I had missed).

Just two days before the final, I received a note from the professor which told me to come and "see him". I did, and he informed me that he'd be failing me with no opportunity to take the exam. Further, he had asked the Dean to investigate my attenence patterns in all of my other classes (which were similarly dismal).

I had to meet with the Dean and somehow - to this day, I don't know how - I convinced her to allow me to drop the class. It just vanished - like I had never been in it to start with. Maybe it was my hard-luck story about how my fiancee was out of a job and I had to work "too much" to stop her car from being reposessed and having her evicted from her home. This was not true.

Ocean and Coastal Law. A far sight worse than Spanish any day of the week.

[Macco]

Originally posted by mstecker
Ocean and Coastal Law. A far sight worse than Spanish any day of the week.

I don't know, man. You should sit in on my Spanish class some day.

[scem0]

As of now..... probably my math class. Algebra II.

My teacher is unintelligent. She should not be a teacher - she messes up on 75% of the easy algebra II problems that she works. We constantly have to correct her.

Most of the people in my class are lost, and failing, but I not only take to math really well, but I know all this stuff from previous math courses.

She has a problem with free will. She can't do anything on her own accord, she has to check or get permission from a higher authority. She teaches only according to the designed curriculum, and not by what she deems is best. She has a really annoying 70's looking haircut, and a really annoying high piched voice.

Today it really annoyed me because she was teaching the class how to factor quadratic equations :rolleyes: and i was barely listening and from what i heard she was teaching them horribly. Its no wonder that they are failing. She explains things horribly - even though they should have learned all this in algebra I. She wants us to show all our work, and she says she is going to take off points if she doesnt see the 'smiley face', which is supposed to be created when you are checking your answer and drawing a line from one number to the next; but I do factoring a completely different way. I use a Korean method taught to me by a Korean friend (it is 10x better than the method we are learning in school), which doesn't involve smiley faces... :rolleyes: :o :o

She really annoys me. Luckily the class is a breeze and is a real GPA helper (for me at least - i could only imagine where i would be if I didn't know this stuff already). I'm pretty sure I have a 97 right now.

I also hate chemistry, because I don't know many people in that class. And people are hesitant to talk to me because whenever coach mjos (my teacher) is talking about grades he always tells people to ask me for help. I have no right to have the highest grade in that class - I dont listen, I don't try, and I don't spend any time whatsoever on chemistry outside the class. But somehow I have the highest grade in the class. So now everyone thinks im some kind of genius child and so they all shy away from me.

I went from taking all honors last year to taking all regulars (except for some computer classes - which are my most challenging classes). It's like going back 5 grades or something.

It is doing wonders for my GPA, and will help me get into a better college, which in turn will benifit my education. But as of now I'm not learning ****, and I am really annoyed by it. I haven't touched my backpack once outside of school, and yet I am making 95+ in most of my classes. It amazes me that half the people are failing when everything is common sense and 4th grade level thinking. Sometimes I wish I stayed in honors, but I really couldn't handle the effects honors/AP had on my GPA.

But my most hated type of course would have to be History courses. I really cant stand history. I think its a great thing to learn, but I think there are very few teachers can keep it from being boring.

I had a great history teacher in 8th grade at my private, elementary school. He was a very dramatic teacher, and you couldn't sleep in that class if you wanted to. But despite his outrageous teaching methods, I was still bored out of my mind. I find very few things truly interesting about history. Luckily, I took a dual credit college course (to get high school and college credit) at Austin Community College, and got rid of American History during the summer. So this year I am history free. :)

Well, now that I have all that school stuff out of my system I think I will play some starcraft :D.

scem0

[Giaguara]

I loved spanish. Well.

Physical education sucked. For all those who were too fat, too skinny, too slow, or too sporty so they got treated badly or those talented got bored.

My foot was always a problem. And I was slow .. slow but resistant but they didnt care i could swim or run 4 hours, they wanted 60 or 100 m of runnign and my leg didn't want to operate always correctly and i was just slow .. (and a nerd, so not liked in group sports).

The worst EVER thing in PE were dance classes. Tehre were more girls than boys, and tall girls had to dance with other girls. I was tall, and I still can't stand any women touching me, unless I REALLY really do know them and they are like grandmas, my closest friends or so to me. Gosh.

[Phil Of Mac]

I hated P.E..

Right now, World Civilizations. It's very incompetently taught at my college, or at least by my professor.

[King Cobra]

Point your finger at my old elementary, just as long as you could also point to 90% of my classmates and about 50% of my teachers. I still hold a firey hatred against the ignorance consuming my efforts to just listen to what I was being taught.

[saabmp3]

I think every non-physics major will blame the entire physics dept as being the worse "class" in the school. I know it's above the PE and languages but it's where I'm at now and I'm not too fond of it.

BEN

[iJon]

Spanish was a bitch, but I got through it. Math really bothers me, I know its good to know but I have a feeling I wont be using much of this stuff we are learning now, but who knows.

iJon

[job]

none at the moment. i'm currently enjoying all of my senior year high school classes.

i'm sure i'll hate some classes in college.

last year my worst class was physics. the teacher was actually a math teacher who was forced by the school district to teach physics (they didn' have enough physics teachers.) i eventually came out with a 90, so i guess it was alright in the end.

[mactastic]

Architectural design studio was my most loved and hated class. It totally depended on the instructor, and we took one each quarter for 4 years, then a full year spent with one. Total of 17 design classes, with 2 times I spent 2 quarters with the same instructor for a total of 15 design instructors over 5 years. Only about 5 of them really sucked, and about 5 were really exceptional. When it's good, its really a lot of fun to be there, even when you haven't slept for 3 days. When it's bad there's almost no point. You might as well have just redone the project from the quarter before.

And critiques on 3 days without sleep are rough when people with no idea what you were working on for 10 weeks tell you it sucks for the following reasons... :p

At the time, I thought Statics was the worst thing ever, but looking back it wasn't so hard. I was just dumb.

[tazo]

Math, because I am so horrible at it...

[Spike Spiegel]

This isnt so much a current problem as it was a last year problem, but... my first semester required english course was taught by a professor who must have been brought in to prevent the kids here from writing things like holla in their papers. His method for helping students rid themselves of stupidity (an impossible battle at my school) was to assign papers that were to begin with "this paper is about...there will be five paragraphs discussing..." and ended with "this paper was about...each paragraph talked about..." Needless to say, I attempted suicide by numerous paper cuts using the 15lb. book we never touched that cost $75. The only redeeming point of the class was that while he was up at the board one could watch as dark rivulets of sweat began staining his cornflower blue shirts until they were 30% covered after five minutes of class. Being an art major, my schedule will be so morbidly obese in the coming semesters that it won't be until second semester of my junior year that i will be able to take a decent literature or writing course.:mad:

[Billicus]

Spanish IV. While I'm good at it, our school system can't seem to get a teacher to stay for more than a year, so we also have crappy teachers. The one this year is a moron...:rolleyes:

[Durandal7]

I dislike my Digital Electronics class. The instructor is a complete idiot bastard and I spend most of my time thinking up ways to torment him.

[Stelliform]

Back in the day I disliked PE the most. But I really just disliked the teacher. You know, one of those coaches... :D

[jefhatfield]

in high school, i dislked civics the most

but now, 22 years later, i like the topic and find it interesting...the teacher i had wore a three piece suit and had a very droning type of voice and put kids to sleep...he never did a thing but just kept on droning on and basically read the text from cover to cover

by the time i got to college, i didn't rate the class based on the hip factor of the teacher, but more on the material that i learned while in class

my high school civics teacher would have fared much better at the college

but i don't find it making sense that i should hate any college class...i have to pay tuition, parking fees, and pay for books and since i don't have to be there, then it makes me realize that i am in college by choice in the first place and that helps make it more interesting since all the students participate since they are paying for this whole thing

but the last classes i have taken were about $1400 dollars a class for 15 weeks so some of the students were very critical of their professors and did nothing but complain because the professor did not walk on water and juggle at the same time while standing on their head:p

[ColoJohnBoy]

Ugh. Personal Survival. It's basically sex ed, with a few lessons on drugs and alcohol thrown in. I think we did something with CPR as well. It wasn't the class so much, but the teacher. He told us that the cervix is on top of the uterus, and that when women menstruate, their ovaries literally explode. Apparently after a small explosion occurs in your body, any pregnancy that happens after, will be of the sort where the mother births the baby into her lungs. Honestly.

[question fear]

the class that gave me nightmares was symbolic logic. i was in it because it was required for my philosophy major, which was too bad...it was like algebra on crack with no numbers.
It was BAD.
Lesson being if you have a class you need to take, dont wait until your senior year to do it...its painfully unpleasant to do that to yourself.
--carly

[yellow]

School? Class? Wazzat?

[wdlove]

Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
Ugh. Personal Survival. It's basically sex ed, with a few lessons on drugs and alcohol thrown in. I think we did something with CPR as well. It wasn't the class so much, but the teacher. He told us that the cervix is on top of the uterus, and that when women menstruate, their ovaries literally explode. Apparently after a small explosion occurs in your body, any pregnancy that happens after, will be of the sort where the mother births the baby into her lungs. Honestly.

That is very sad to hear. I'm shocked that a teacher would be allowed to keep a job with such ignorance of basic Anatomy. I hope that this teacher is the exception rather than the rule. If a lot of teachers are like this no wonder a majority of students don't have basic knowledge. It seems like the members of this forum could teach their classes!

[Phil Of Mac]

The best sex ed class would be that taught by John Cleese in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life.

[noel4r]

speech

[Roger1]

I had a couple of bad classes in college. One of them was COBAL, which I took in 2000. I HATED that class. The teacher was awful, COBAL is awful, and I had a book that was so bad, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it.
Another college class I din't like was the final class I had to take for my degree. I don't remember the name of it, but it was supposed to be the capstone course for my degree, where I apply all my learned knowledge.
And what did we do for this class?? Learn how to use MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000!!!! AAAAGGGG!!!

[Phil Of Mac]

What college did you go to!?

Here, that was one of the first classes I took!

[Roger1]

I went to Davenport University. I had a lot of really good teachers there (my statistics teacher was great) but those two classes really made me wonder. I was really suprised about the MS Office though. I had already taken a class on MS Office a few years earlier, so I didn't learn anything new. Ah, well.

[Zenith]

Currently, I don't hate any classes or lessons. And I only have seven of them every week... :D

I'm lucky enough to go to jazz division of the concervatory of music in Trondheim, Norway, where every lesson is about, you guessed it - jazz.

My weekly lessons include jazz theory, hearing lesson, rythmics, main instrument (jazzpiano) and secondary instrument (classical piano), third instrument (drums) and arranging/composing lessons. I love them all!

Occasionally we're having history lessons (four weeks a year...), and those have to be the lessons I like the least.

[ColoJohnBoy]

Originally posted by wdlove
That is very sad to hear. I'm shocked that a teacher would be allowed to keep a job with such ignorance of basic Anatomy. I hope that this teacher is the exception rather than the rule. If a lot of teachers are like this no wonder a majority of students don't have basic knowledge. It seems like the members of this forum could teach their classes!

No joke. Luckily this teacher retired after that year. Well, then he died of cancer. But anyway, it really was upsetting to me to have that class. Most of my classes were wonderful, but there were a few that were simply awful like that. Unfortuantely, most of them were classes that everyone had to take.

[revenuee]

any class starting before noon... my earliest class right now 12.30pm ... i love university

[Stelliform]

Originally posted by question fear
the class that gave me nightmares was symbolic logic.

--carly

I didn't have to take that one in High-school, but in college I had to take the philosophy version and Math version. :( And I sucked at both, and got out of those classes not understanding symbolic logic.

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
No joke. Luckily this teacher retired after that year. Well, then he died of cancer. But anyway, it really was upsetting to me to have that class. Most of my classes were wonderful, but there were a few that were simply awful like that. Unfortuantely, most of them were classes that everyone had to take.

Why is it that classes that everyone has to take are always the worst?

[revenuee]

because they start before noon ... thats why i hated highschool... i had to get up early....

[tazo]

Ya know I have never had a class which I hated on a daily basis, I had one teacher that was so liberal it was nauseating everyday, I mean ironically she supressed my opinions with threat of suspension, punishment, but I mean the way she taught the class sans any opposing view was simply put: horrible.

BTW that class was world geography, and yet I still managed to have a lot of fun when i wrote my response papers to every lesson she taught :rolleyes:

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
Apparently after a small explosion occurs in your body, any pregnancy that happens after, will be of the sort where the mother births the baby into her lungs. Honestly. Maybe that's actually how it works in your teacher's species.

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by tazo
Ya know I have never had a class which I hated on a daily basis, I had one teacher that was so liberal it was nauseating everyday, I mean ironically she supressed my opinions with threat of suspension, punishment, but I mean the way she taught the class sans any opposing view was simply put: horrible.

BTW that class was world geography, and yet I still managed to have a lot of fun when i wrote my response papers to every lesson she taught :rolleyes:

How the hell do you politicize geography?

[RobVanDam]

Tazo, that sounds like a horrible teacher. Although, I wish I had a teacher like her, I never had a teacher I could truely butt heads with where he/she would threaten me with suspension.

I lucked out, the government teacher I had for two years had similar conservative views to me, but he always played devil's advocate and had good questions for both the liberals and conservatives in the class.

[tazo]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
How the hell do you politicize geography?

LOL easily I can say anything regarding borders, and wars and their effect on geography, such as the Tibet and China issue. But honestly the class was more about social studies as we studied the WTO riots in Seattle a few years back, and basic political issues like freedom of speech, discrimination, racism, all which gave me the time to voice my opinions, prior to being supressed :rolleyes:

Good question tho, as I too would wonder how one can politicize geography :)

Tazo, that sounds like a horrible teacher. Although, I wish I had a teacher like her, I never had a teacher I could truely butt heads with where he/she would threaten me with suspension.

I lucked out, the government teacher I had for two years had similar conservative views to me, but he always played devil's advocate and had good questions for both the liberals and conservatives in the class.

She was a good teacher when she taught the few lessons with more than her views, but other than that it was like watching one liberal propoganda movie after the other. Most of my teachers have historically held liberal points of view, although I believe atleast one to hold similar conservative-to-moderate opinions :)

As for the asking questions part, well lets just say everytime I voiced my opinions they were followed by her responding with a guilt trip :)

[Phil Of Mac]

Wait, she's suppressing you in a freedom of speech argument?

WTF?

[tazo]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Wait, she's suppressing you in a freedom of speech argument?

WTF?

That was the only time she and I had similar and not dissenting opinions on a class discussion.

Everything else she ironically would try and suppress me from saying. It is ironic because historically liberals are big on freedom of speech [one reason why I am not all conservative...]

[shadowfax]

my currently most hated class is easily Discrete Math. incomparably terrible.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by shadowfax
my currently most hated class is easily Discrete Math. incomparably terrible.

That is definitley a new kind of math on me shadowfax!

[revenuee]

Originally posted by wdlove
That is definitley a new kind of math on me shadowfax!

I believe it's algebra and geometery... that what it's called in my highschool

i was the last year to have algebra, the next class takes discrete...

correct me if i am wrong shadow

[5300cs]

I've had lots of bad classes over the years, (though I'm not a student anymore, except on my own.)

I had a Figure Drawing teacher who was a total prick to anyone but the Fine Arts majors (because Illustrators sell their work, they don't live to create :rolleyes: ) Needless to say I failed that class. When I went back to try and appeal and take it over again he was an arrogant bastard about the whole thing:mad:

I had a Graphic Design teacher who said "All the illustration majors have problems keeping clean.":rolleyes:

Yeah... Art school was tons o' fun.

I had a math teacher in h.s. who would say "Look up at the board!" then 2 minutes later "Take some notes!!" hahaha, the students hated her, and on top of that she had a terrible name (which I won't mention.)

Ironically, I teach at a jr high school now, so I'm on the other side now. It's a strange feeling sometimes

[Phil Of Mac]

Speaking of quirky math teachers, my current math professor, who I honestly quite like, is a heavily accented older Filipino woman who is known to suddenly start lecturing in Chinese (she used to teach in Chinese). Her name is Dr. Ng. Having a two-letter surname without vowels has caused problems, especially with pronunciation, which is why we usually call her "N.G."

[latergator116]

Im doing realy badly in Latin. wouldnt say I hate it though. Oh, geomotry sucks. It is so easy and pointless. It just basicaly states the obviuos.(A=B,B=C, now give a two column proof why A=C. Pointless as hell.

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by latergator116
Im doing realy badly in Latin. wouldnt say I hate it though

In the immortal words of J. Danforth Quayle, "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."

[evil]

all of them

[5300cs]

Oh yeah, I had a philosophy class where the teacher would suddenly go off onto a tangent and start yelling "There is no God!! You can't prove it! Show me proof that Jesus or God exist or ever existed!!"

For me it was funny, but it probably wasn't so cool for the 15 or so Haitians & Jamaicans in the class :rolleyes: (it was a community college I took the class at over the summer for quick transfer credits.)

Then I took another philosophy class at my own college and the professor was great; funny guy who smoked cigars and explained things really well.

[5300cs]

rrrr.. hit the wrong button :mad:

Please continue to the next post

[Doctor Q]

For me, liking or hating a class always depended on the teacher, not the subject. Best teacher: the math teacher who became my friend, had me over to his house, and got me interested in computers. I had other great teachers in music, art, and physics. The worst teacher was in biology. He turned me off of a subject I realize now I would otherwise have been interested in.

[latergator116]

For me, liking or hating a class always depended on the teacher, not the subject. Best teacher: the math teacher who became my friend, had me over to his house, and got me interested in computers. I had other great teachers in music, art, and physics. The worst teacher was in biology. He turned me off of a subject I realize now I would otherwise have been interested in.

Yes, I think you are very much right. If there is a good teacher they can just make about any class interesting.

[Doctor Q]

I just remembered - There was a mirror of this thread: Who was your best school teacher? (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25231)

[question fear]

Originally posted by 5300cs
Oh yeah, I had a philosophy class where the teacher would suddenly go off onto a tangent and start yelling "There is no God!! You can't prove it! Show me proof that Jesus or God exist or ever existed!!"

For me it was funny, but it probably wasn't so cool for the 15 or so Haitians & Jamaicans in the class :rolleyes: (it was a community college I took the class at over the summer for quick transfer credits.)

Then I took another philosophy class at my own college and the professor was great; funny guy who smoked cigars and explained things really well.

i have seen phil profs do that...it seems the subject of belief in god will anger students both for and against it.
when taking a philosophy class, imho, you need to expect the oddities...i had a professor once who was quoting from his own theory...forgot it....and then ran to his office, retrieved his book, and continued the lecture.
we all stayed put and waited.
--carly
ps in his defense the quote he needed was from 20 yrs earlier...but still ;)

[revenuee]

Originally posted by question fear
i have seen phil profs do that...it seems the subject of belief in god will anger students both for and against it.
when taking a philosophy class, imho, you need to expect the oddities...i had a professor once who was quoting from his own theory...forgot it....and then ran to his office, retrieved his book, and continued the lecture.
we all stayed put and waited.
--carly
ps in his defense the quote he needed was from 20 yrs earlier...but still ;)

interesting i've never had a philosophy teacher or prof tell me there is no god ... then have only implied that there might not be a God
*notice the difference"

[question fear]

Originally posted by revenuee
interesting i've never had a philosophy teacher or prof tell me there is no god ... then have only implied that there might not be a God
*notice the difference"

Mine used to go off on tangents, and they would often give opinions to students informally they would not do in class. Specifically, the time i was thinking of when i referred to professors and god was in a colloquium where a prospective professor was lecturing. There were several of the students from the dept as well as the professors...the colloquium ended when the lecturer dismissed the concept of god, causing both some of the students and the prof to challenge her. I have seen that debate get taken even farther than just discussion, it was a sore spot at times.
However, I think in the proper context it can work...it all depends on how the professor approaches it, and whether it relates to the subject. For example, in a class called "Idea of God..."
So yes, i do think professors can and should use their beliefs in a philosophy course; if they believe their intellectual inquiry has led them to a specific end, that is going to come through implicitly.
--carly

[revenuee]

Originally posted by question fear
Mine used to go off on tangents, and they would often give opinions to students informally they would not do in class. Specifically, the time i was thinking of when i referred to professors and god was in a colloquium where a prospective professor was lecturing. There were several of the students from the dept as well as the professors...the colloquium ended when the lecturer dismissed the concept of god, causing both some of the students and the prof to challenge her. I have seen that debate get taken even farther than just discussion, it was a sore spot at times.
However, I think in the proper context it can work...it all depends on how the professor approaches it, and whether it relates to the subject. For example, in a class called "Idea of God..."
So yes, i do think professors can and should use their beliefs in a philosophy course; if they believe their intellectual inquiry has led them to a specific end, that is going to come through implicitly.
--carly

I my self have spent much time questioning and inquiring to the existence of God.

As a catholic, i shouldn't but i have found to many inconstancies, and have read way to much to just blindly believe.

On thing i have noticed through my study of world religions, and philosophical thought, is that civilizations and cultures, generally come up with the same ideas, this simply call it something different. But is interesting is that many times these civilizations have had no impact on each other.

as a result i myself refuse to acknowledge God, but i am getting closer and closer to acknowledging a god.

i've gone a little of topic

but i have found that i hate any subject where i can't question anything. that is why i hated the sciences in high-school... to concrete. Now in university, every course i have requires some sort of analysis on my part, and my own interpretations.

so i guess i can say that i don't hate any course... i'm only not to happy with those that start before noon ...luckily my earliest class is 12.30... so i'm set ;)

[Shifty]

I seriously hate my Science classes. Sometimes, I feel not to attend them

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by revenuee
I my self have spent much time questioning and inquiring to the existence of God.

As a catholic, i shouldn't but i have found to many inconstancies, and have read way to much to just blindly believe.

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." --Thomas Jefferson

[revenuee]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." --Thomas Jefferson

Phil of Mac - always there to steer the path of logic

[GeeYouEye]

Calculus BC. 'nuff said.

[bennetsaysargh]

Originally posted by Macco
It would have to be Spanish for me too. Not that the class or the work is particularly difficult, just that it's sooooo boring. We spend half of the class going over homework, and the other half doing practice problems and stuff. It's just so uninteresting to me, and I can think of a million better ways to teach Spanish that wouldn't involve me falling asleep in class.

same hee, only wiht italian. i swear he is such a moron. he thinks that we are all awake at 7am, and he yells at us. horrible. that and math. you see, im taking it over again. last year (8th grade) i was in 9th grade math. i messed up on the final and am now taking the course over again. it['s so boring. i wish i could take the final now and then just have a study ball or something. ugh.
at least my math teacher is cool though;)

[Angelus]

the only class i hated was irish class.
i know that its our national tongue and all but i just could never get to like it no matter how hard i tried.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by GeeYouEye
Calculus BC. 'nuff said. Calculus was such a kickass class. i admit i only took AB, but i got my 4, and i did NO HOMEWORK, EVER. i studied a few times, but listening to the lecture and working out the examples in class did it all for me. BC would have been harder, but not by too much.

[latergator116]

Right now, gym is my favorite class because we are playing badminten tournements and it is so fun. plus, you dont get all sweaty and nasty. oh, history is also fun because I do my hw in that class

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by shadowfax
Calculus was such a kickass class. i admit i only took AB, but i got my 4, and i did NO HOMEWORK, EVER. i studied a few times, but listening to the lecture and working out the examples in class did it all for me. BC would have been harder, but not by too much.

Sounds like my study habits. I also take math tests and figure out, as I'm taking them, how to do the problem, if I don't already remember :)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Sounds like my study habits. I also take math tests and figure out, as I'm taking them, how to do the problem, if I don't already remember :) i usually have that happen to me in a test. there's something i forgot to read over or something, and i have to improvise a solution. it's more entertaining, at least.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Angelus
the only class i hated was irish class.
i know that its our national tongue and all but i just could never get to like it no matter how hard i tried.

some of the guys in U2 were slackers in their irish class, and it was funny that they would go on to become the most recognizeable people from that country in decades on a worldwide basis

i bet more americans can recognize bono of U2 before they can recognize your nation's leader;)

[Doctor Q]

I've never been to traffic school, but I imagine it can get pretty boring (unless you take one of the wacky versions, e.g., Comedy Traffic School). And I imagine that if you go, you resent having to be there. Does anybody consider traffic school as their most hated school class? Or is it not really that bad?

[1macker1]

If you dont get a good teacher, physics can be a living hell. (my CAD classes comes in 2nd)

[Toppa G's]

I have a really good physics teacher, and that's currently my favorite class...so much different from the printing management and business classes I am taking otherwise.

Worst class? I had a Modern American History class (Civil War-present) where the teacher spent the first half of the semester talking about Abraham Lincoln. A good guy, yes...but I had not signed up for a class about Lincoln. The teacher was a big Lincoln fan....huge collection of books, etc. Good teacher...just didn't teach what the course was about.

[Counterfit]

Right now, I hate all of my four classes. Math is taught by a Russian guy that can hardly speak English and explains things in the most confusing way possible. Mechanical Seminar (a.k.a. Mech 124, Intro to engineering) is just a waste of time, it might as well be called "the stuff your high school guidance councilor told you and you brushed off". English I just suck at because we have to write another essay every two weeks. I suck at writing essays.
Then there's Mechanical Graphics. Three hours spent in a lab full of P.O.S. Dells running Windoze 2000 and AutoCad 2004. That combination means that no two machines work the same. Then the professor can't speak English very well either, only marginally better than my Math prof. Last Thursday, he kicked someone out for following directions. He had sent an email out describing what to do to prepare for class, but the directions weren't quite clear. The guy was asking about them and the prof said "read the email". So the guy turns on his monitor and proceeds to go check his email. This was at the beginning of the class when we were supposed to have the computers off and be working on our hand drafting. The prof then gets pretty irate and says "what are you doing?" The student says "checking the email like you said." prof: "I'm going to have to kick you out of class for five minutes now" (due to several people (me twice) being caught on the internet during class). This is where it turns into the airplane scene from Anger Management: student: (very calmly) "why?" prof: "Just calm down and please leave class" student: (still calm) "oookaaaayy" prof: "Now calm down!"
*sigh*
And only one of my professors is a native English speaker. Thankfully, he's my English prof.

[Doctor Q]

One of my least favorite teachers was a high school English teacher who was also the drama teacher. Instead of doing advanced writing, which is what the course was supposed to be for, she had us put on plays. More recently, I complained about this former teacher to a friend who had gone to the same high school. My friend said "What are you talking about? She was the best English teacher in the school!" Of course, my friend had been a drama student who performed in the school's musicals, so maybe our points of view were a little different!

[rkristich]

I found this thread while searching for something, and seeing as school already has started/is starting soon, I thought it would be a fun thread to resurrect.

I actually have a few classes that are on my list

#1: AP World History. The subject itself was okay. Not terribly exciting, but not too boring either. The problem was the teacher. You see, my teacher for this class was fresh out of college, with a 5 year masters degree. So yes, she was smart, but she had no idea how to teach an AP class. Although I somehow managed to get a 3 on the test, I learned maybe two things that year. She didn't know how to lecture, how to grade tests, or even how to evaluate essays. She was also incredibly moody. It was as if she had permanent PMS. It was a first hour class, and not a good way to start off the day.

My best horror story about her: A few people in my class went to an older, wiser history teacher who used to teach the AP World class, and asked if he could help them out, since the current teacher obviously was having problems doing her job. He said sure, and gave them a bunch of notes and review questions to work on. Our teacher found out about this, and threatened to fail them all on our next test. There was really no rationale to this; it was more of revenge for hurting her pride it seemed. The kids went and talked to some administrators who agreed that there was no reason for her to fail them, and after that she never mentioned the incident again. I'm sure some administator told her to drop the whole thing.

#2: All the 1/2 credit classes I was required to take. Some examples and why I didn't like them:

-FCAT Math: FCAT is a Florida state test. In 8th grade, everyone was required to take this class. I was already in a High School Algebra I honors class. The teacher had to go over things like multiplication tables while in my math class were were working with exponentials and such. Such a waste of time and soooo boring.

-My required 9th grade computer class: I already knew everything. It was mostly just how to work with Office and how to type without looking at your fingers. I finished all my work 3 weeks into the class and was forced to help out other people the rest of the semester. Mostly kids who didn't care that their grade was 8%. It was very frusterating to say the least.

-Personal Fitness: it was mostly how to eat healthy, stretch right, etc. Basically stuff that any semi-intelligent person would know. At least after I finished all my work I could do homework for other classes. I wouldn't have minded the actual workout part (jogging/walking) if we could have just done laps around the gym. But no, we had to go outside, and in the full Florida heat and humidity do laps. To make it even worse, I'm susceptible to heat rashes (sensitive and fair skin), so I would always have these red dots all over my legs, and they would itch like crazy. Not fun.

-Health: This class taught us things like how to brush our teeth!!! I'm sorry, but if you're in high school and don't know how to brush your teeth, there's really no hope left. We also had to learn all the stuff about why not to do drugs. No sexual issues were brought up though, as the only policy my school district will endore is abstinence. And on the tests our teacher would even let us use the books. Keep in mind that these were tests you could easily pass if you never came to class. Of course, most people still failed them. Here's a typical test question:

Is it ever okay to do drugs?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Maybe
D. Yes, but only during certain occasions

There are a few others but I think that I've wrote enough for now. I'm so glad I no longer have to take any required electives. They're a complete waste of time, and it can be so frusterating being in a class with kids who aren't at the same intelligence level. I'm not trying to be elitist or anything, it's just that I hate not having anything to challenge me, and in these mixed classes, the regular work may challenge others, but it completely bores me.

Here's to a senior year with no horrible classes!

[CubaTBird]

i had this one teacher in high school that was most possibly the worst science teacher i ever had... the dude would talk so freakin' fast and ask him a question he would make you look like a fool.. he also loved sayin "READ THE PROCEDURE" and im like "eh.. that's not the issue.. no..one..here..gets..the..material.."... its a shock when over half the class had d's... :( i barely made it out alive with a c-... :( :o

[FrankieTDouglas]

Statistical Analysis Psychology, II

I started in psychology because I enjoyed the theoretical views and approaches. I did not get into it to crunch numbers and find mathematical patterns. So, I put any and all math-related psyc classes off until my last year. This class killed me. I had no idea what he was talking about from day to day classwork. On the final, I spent two hours just trying to be as creative as possible in my answers, in hopes that he would at least be amused by my findings. I got out of there with a C and was damn proud of that grade.

[Jay42]

French without a doubt. Its not that hard, but the classes seem strenuous (lots of concentration on what you're saying), and the teachers aren't as pleasant.

[puckhead193]

every class in High School except for the science classes. All of them were a joke. I wish i was "pushed" into taken honors or AP or something... would have help/changed many things :mad: :rolleyes:

[Plymouthbreezer]

Spanish... I hate foreign languages...

Aside from that, I like every other class pretty much (but obviously, a lot depends on the teacher)...

[iindigo]

Any class having anything to do with math. I hate math more than IE sucks.

[Billicus]

Who found this thread from two years ago? Lol... :p

[ham_man]

Spanish. I hate that class. Though I do catch up on alot of sleep during Destinos... :rolleyes:

[xsedrinam]

Spanish... I hate foreign languages...
Ah, it's not that bad ;) My Latin teacher was an ex Drill Sergeant. We had to do "amó, amás, amat, amámus, amátis, amant" in rhythm with his ruler. Vulgar Latin in every sense of the word, I say.
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[realityisterror]

English. No reasons required. End of story.

[Vader]

English also, too much reading of old books!

[devilot]

Any class having anything to do with math. I hate math more than IE sucks.I definitely feel you on that one... I could take AP classes up and down the line, except math... I'm dismal at math. Geeze. I'm an embarassment to millions of Asians. :eek: ;)

[Oryan]

It's Differential Equations for me. I love math and had great instructors in calculus, but my Diff EQ teacher sucked last semester. (Honestly though, it was the first class he had taught in English.) I dropped the course so I get to try it again this year.

[efoto]

Who found this thread from two years ago? Lol... :p

My thoughts exactly :p

For me this term it is probably Heat Transfer or Fluid Dynamics, the latter mostly because the prof is a complete tool and all his lectures are word-for-word from the text, yet he re-writes them and no one can read his handouts....and he still takes attendance (senior year of university) so we can't even skip! :(

[mariahlullaby]

I have a lot

Math: Never been good in the math area. I try, I work, I do my homework, and I never pull an A. I've also had a slew of bad teacers (some really good ones though) so the situation. For example, my teacher last year (who supposedly had a PhD but I have reason to suspect that lol...my friends and I used to joke it must be in something like underwater basket weaving because it certainly wasn't math). He made up the lessons on the spot; as in he would be readint it for the first time as he taught it (this was his first year teaching this class) and then have no idea how to do it, no joke. Half the time we would spend 30 min learning a concept and then he'd go "Oh wait, no that's wrong" and tell us to forget everything he just told us and do it over again. I never ONCE had a test that he hadn't made mistakes grading -- I always had to re-check his work and got between 5-20 points added on because he failed to do the math correctly. I think the worst part was his grading system that had most of the class failing...and the fact that he was never available to help and when you did go for help in the morning, he'd just say "read your notes" and NO JOKE "I don't remember how to do it." I got my first C in his class, too....he really screwed me over (and I'm not one to blame teachers for my grade...but this guy really did. I always did my homework, studied, came in for help, etc. and I'm not a dumb person...he just had no idea what he was doing).


Let's. Also on the top of the list would be my Gifted Chem class next year. The teacher, of course, was the main problem. She had NO respect for her students. One time I was absent and arranged with her a day to come in and make a lab up in the morning. I arrived at the schedule time (8 AM, school starts at 8:40) and she wasn't there. I waited a few minutes when another student came in and said they saw her in the computer lab. So, I went to the lab and told her I was there and wanted to start the lab (I couldn't do it on my own because I can't get the materials myself, school rule). She was talking with another teacher and said she would be there in a minute. So I went back to the class and got everything set up for the lab and did other measurements, etc. that I could do w/o the chemicals, etc. I waited and another girl came in to do the lab. The teacher didn't come so the other girl went to the lab where she was STILL talking (about Nascar!!!!!) and got yelled at for being impatient and told to come back to the class. We waited and waited. It was getting late and her first period class started coming in. Finally, after the first bell rang, we decided we couldnt stay anymore because we would be late to our 1st periods (which is a big deal at our school...if you're late you cannot exempt the final exam on attendance) just as she comes in the door (and at this time it's like 8:36) and she starts YELLING at us, asking where we're going and if we would just have some patience. Meanwhile, there was no time to do the lab properly so we rushed through it in 4 or 5 minutes (this is a lab that was supposed to take 30 min) and run to class, late. And she never once apologized. I HATE teachers who have no respect!!! She also called me a liar to my face, after she told me I had never turned in the research data for my project and gave me a zero. I REDID the whole thing and turned it in the next day (and this was 30 pages of work) and she goes 'Oh, I found it. Here." No apology for yelling at me and telling me I'm a liar. Thanks for nothing.

[The_Man]

I hated biology in highschool. It was the worst class with the most boring teacher ever. She always spoke in a monotone voice and just read things exactly out of our textbooks. Not to mention she was sexist (in favor of girls) and could not do math.
It was a terrible experience that I am glad I am over with. I guess it was more the teacher than the course, because I found actual biology fairly interesting, just I will never forget how horribly it was presented.

[neildmitchell]

Im at The Academy of Art University, so I like my classes.
Even though I am a bit fatigued of hearing that my typography (leading, tracking, ...) is a point off here or there. :rolleyes:

Just transfered from a J.C. this summer. The most hated class at the J.C. would probably be... U.S. History. Ya ya ya, I should care and be interested, blah blah blah. It was the the paper writtting and the instructors personality that I probably hated the most. We used A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, which wasnt a bad read at all, and actually suggest that people read it.

in H.S. I hated U.S. Government the most. The F! bastard on the first day of class, walked in went person by person and announced who would fail his class, and that he was tenor (I think thats how you spell it?) and there was nothing we could do about it. He failed me, I needed that class to graduate, I took it over in summer school with a different instructor and passed with a B.

[greatdevourer]

Biology. The entire biology department is annoying (except for one teacher, who is the teacher. Pity I've only had him for cover lessons :()

[lem0n]

...Biology: our teacher made us take note everyday, about 7 transparencies each class... that's a lot of writing and he speaks in monotone...

...Art Class: she never like anybody who doesn't draw in her way... she always find things to complain about us while everything drew by her pet is perfect [she ended up with 99%] I remember for our ISU, this girl drew a caricature of Bush and Condoleeza [it was a political statement painting] and she was cmplaining about how it look to life-like and she said it's obvious that this girl looked at a picture of Bush and Condoleeza to draw it... well, how would she draw a caricature if she's not looking at their picture... so the art teacher gave her a 0% for plagiarism... it's just their picture, and not like they look exactly like that [Bush can't have that big of a mouth] and ISU worths 20% of our final mark, we were pretty mad about that...

[CubaTBird]

Any class having anything to do with math. I hate math more than IE sucks.

hahahha...... thats funny... i hate math more than IE lol :p

[iJon]

Wow, I posted on this thread 2 years go. I guess Spanish wouldn't be the worse class I taken so far. I think Geology would top that now. I hate those damn rocks

jon

[themadchemist]

It's Differential Equations for me. I love math and had great instructors in calculus, but my Diff EQ teacher sucked last semester. (Honestly though, it was the first class he had taught in English.) I dropped the course so I get to try it again this year.

Wow, long time since I've posted, and it's sad that after months, I would post about Diff EQ. I took it in the Fall and it sucked quite royally. First of all, Diff EQ is a lot more about memorizing a bunch of theorems and trying to apply them in whatever half-ass way you can than it is about really understanding mathematics. Second, it's extremely boring, even if you grade how interesting math classes are on a generous curve.

Plus, it was sort of a sore point. I walked in having been told that Diff Eq was very easy. It should have been. I did ok on the quizzes; I just sort of winged most of them. I showed up only occasionally to class. I blew the midterm out of the water and then didn't bother to show up afterwards. For the final, the guy puts a bunch of trick questions on there that would have been dead easy had you shown up to class. Alas, I suppose it's my fault for not attending, but my B+ in Diff Eq really annoyed me. Ironically, I ended up doing much better in classes in which I was doing much worse around the time of the midterm...Funny how things can change.

[Eevee]

I hated Chemistry in high school. My teacher was awful and didn't care too much about us (and vice versa, we didn't care too much about him). But after going to college, had a lot of inspiring chem professors, and then now, am a Chemist. Weird... :confused:

Can anyone relate?

[gwuMACaddict]

hmmm... there were classes that i despised *while* i was taking them, but came to appreciate them later...

couldn't stand differential equations while in the class, but found it mighty handy later, enjoyed it once i could actually apply it to something...

never liked vibration analysis...

[rkristich]

Who found this thread from two years ago? Lol... :p

I'm the one who found it. I was searching for something (don't remember what) and came across it. Seeing as school is either starting soon (tomorrow for me) or has already started, I thought it would be a good thread to resurrect.

Looks like there's no shortage of people who want to rant about their hated classes :D

[Josh]

Subject wise, I LOVE biology. But my bio class my freshman year in college was HELL.

Not because of difficulty; it was anything but. The problem was the instructor.

First time instructor who's first language was obviously not english did not make for an enjoyable class.

My photography class and instructor were AWESOME. The best I've ever had - well, a very close tie with my history of art courses, all taken with the same instructor (on purpose - he's got to be the most inspirational and knowledgable person I've ever met).

[joepunk]

In H.S. I really did not like Chemistry. I just was not that great at the math nor was I any good at working out the textbook questions at the end of the chapters. I got a D the first semester and then I dropped the class (got an F) in order to do better in my math class and a few other classes that I particularly enjoyed (history). When I asked the teacher if I could drop with out affecting my GPA, he asked if I was going to be joining the Army, as if by dropping his class I would be a failure. What a jerk in my opinion for making such a comment.

The next year when I was at Community College I saw him on campus (he also teaches a class there). I don't think he recognized me at all. I should have talked to him to see if he remembered me, but alas I never did.

I have never been great at math and so that was my least favorite types of classes to take. Also, I did not understand a thing being taught in a Visual Basic class I took.

[Prelude2Tragedy]

My most hated class was honors algebra 2. The teacher was a total jerk. He would insult us everyday. He made his test so ridiculously hard that there was just never enough time to finish it in the course of a single class. Then he would comment that if we were the smart ones in the school I'd hate to see everyone else. Anyways, I put up with him for half a year. By then so many students and parents complained about him they made the school create another algebra 2 class that we could transfer into.

[wdlove]

I definitely feel you on that one... I could take AP classes up and down the line, except math... I'm dismal at math. Geeze. I'm an embarrassment to millions of Asians. :eek: ;)

For me math and english are a tie.

[SurfinSHELL23]

Standardly I dislike history. The most hated subjects at my school are English and History, because it's an engineering high school. We're all science/math/tech geeks, so humanities aren't exactly our forte(accent mark).

Next year I'll have Alg II, English II, US I, Latin II, Principles of Engineerng, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and PE.

CIM and PoE should be fun, I think I'll have a really great Alg II teacher, really enjoyed the Algebra teacher I had this year - NucE PhD but the nicest guy - would bring in food for us all the time. I start Sept 7...