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What was the hardest class you've ever taken in college?
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Coming from a small school, college life was in itself huge transition - too many other opportunities… dances, girls, alcohol, girls, concerts, girls, activities, girls… and then was hard going from the small HS local teachers to Middle Eastern assistants, comprehending that Profs and Assistants were not there to teach in the same manner as HS teachers, and study habits. But as to specific class… heck, highest HS math had even offered in my rural area was geometry / algebra, so going into Calcuseless was a bit of struggle, as was Physucks. Elect. Engineering Circuits was hades - mainly due to my own ineptness,,, and learning that my mentality is more of a researcher / scientist, not an engineer that memories this and that. Really, I could not care less that a transistor or a resister or a reostat or a whatchamacallit went here or there… I wanted to know HOW and WHY these devices worked. Thermodynamics was difficult, mainly cause the Prof was an egotistical condensenting [sp] shmuck. But somehow graduated with a Metallurgical Engineering BS, with a 3.7 in my major, and couple minors [Geology and History], and just 1-2 classes away from another [Physics]. LOL - first Physics, the classical Newtonian, I could not stand - flunked / retook it three times 
Dumbest class - who gives a frig that a mass of 'x' going at a direction 'z' with velocity 'v' and angle 'such-and-such degrees' will land where? But the modern Physics, with the optics and magnetism and quantum stuff,,, that is great stuff. Interesting how different classes / subjects were favorites or hated ones by the replies here.
Dumbest class - who gives a frig that a mass of 'x' going at a direction 'z' with velocity 'v' and angle 'such-and-such degrees' will land where? But the modern Physics, with the optics and magnetism and quantum stuff,,, that is great stuff. Interesting how different classes / subjects were favorites or hated ones by the replies here.
I went to UCLA and was a psychology and biology major. The science classes weren't really a problem. But, there were two classes that really got me: Statistics and English History (re: Celtics). I'm just not good at reading whole books and writing essays every couple of weeks; I have a short attention span. Plus, it was all about the Celtics folklore, which didn't interest me at all. With Statistics, I'm not sure why I struggled with it; I'm good with numbers. It may have the application that confused me. But, it was a prerequisite for a research class, in which I had to create my own research and analyze the numbers. I got through them, but I did work a lot harder on those than my other classes.
Probably Evidence law. Tough class and the exam was a *****! The lecturer was leaving, and my friend overheard him laughing with another lecturer about how he was going to give us an extra hard exam as a final farewell. To make matters worse, I sat the 3 hour exam an hour after sitting a 3 hour Equity exam, and a couple of days after two other 3 hour law exams. And it was all in the first couple of days of the exam period, which began about 2 days after lectures ended.
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Middle English.
I also dropped out of a surveying course because I coundn't handle the maths due to a sizeable pot habit at the time.
I think for me it is a tie between Astrophysics and Neuroscience III.
Astrophysics is just difficult in terms of the amount and the depth of the maths involved. Neuroscience is difficult in itself, and funny; the brain trying to understand itself...
Astrophysics is just difficult in terms of the amount and the depth of the maths involved. Neuroscience is difficult in itself, and funny; the brain trying to understand itself...
Ancient Egyptian history. The Prof required correct spelling of all formal names. This was in the day of paper and books, no electronics at all.
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Managerial Economics
Maths and Stats for Business
Accounting
EU Law
Some creativity and enterprise thing. It involved coming up with an idea and trying to market it. Load of tripe really.
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Business Finance
Marketing Policy and Strategy
Maths and Stats for Business
Accounting
EU Law
Some creativity and enterprise thing. It involved coming up with an idea and trying to market it. Load of tripe really.
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Business Finance
Marketing Policy and Strategy
That seems like a lot of "hardest courses ever taken".
Perhaps you're in the wrong field? Just a thought.
For my EE degree, I have to admit that Emag (Electromagentics) was hard, but, what took the cake was Probabilistics with Signal Analysis. I hated that class with a passion I have never felt before. I am not a abstract guy. Discrete math was fun, toying with the mind and puzzles.
VHDL stuff was pretty easy, just know what you want to say in code and write it. Pretty straight forward stuff. I liked Continuous and Discrete Signals class, very fun. Although I have to admit, taking an English course is murder for me. I hate writing and reports. Labs were a drag.
Anyways, getting carried away, Probilistics class in Engineering. Worse class ever.
VHDL stuff was pretty easy, just know what you want to say in code and write it. Pretty straight forward stuff. I liked Continuous and Discrete Signals class, very fun. Although I have to admit, taking an English course is murder for me. I hate writing and reports. Labs were a drag.
Anyways, getting carried away, Probilistics class in Engineering. Worse class ever.
Wow, I forgot I started this thread over a year ago.
My undergrad days will end in 4 days... wow time sure has flown by.
My undergrad days will end in 4 days... wow time sure has flown by.
Undergrad, maybe operations research, it was cool applying all that math, but could get messy fast.
And now, well it's not entirely the classes but the teacher that has me befuddled, sometimes he makes the tests out of the exercises he gives, sometimes out of thin air, sometimes he grades with more rigor and hey its been 12 years since my undergrad so i know i'm lacking there, he teaches signals and systems and telecommunications.
I might've made the mistake of coming back to the most technical of the masters available at our uni. but it was the only one i found interesting.
And now, well it's not entirely the classes but the teacher that has me befuddled, sometimes he makes the tests out of the exercises he gives, sometimes out of thin air, sometimes he grades with more rigor and hey its been 12 years since my undergrad so i know i'm lacking there, he teaches signals and systems and telecommunications.
I might've made the mistake of coming back to the most technical of the masters available at our uni. but it was the only one i found interesting.
Philosophy - It was an online class. I also had the same teacher for another class, and I highly disliked her teaching style. It might have been OK on campus, but I don't think even that would've helped. I don't have an open mind I guess. I dropped it right before the deadline to receive a withdrawal instead of fail on my transcript.
While in the Doctoral program at Indiana U for we had to take a yaer of Statistics. For some totally unexplainable reason, rather than teaching useful stats, the Prof decided we need to spend an entire semester doing tha derivation of the analysis of variance statistical test. Didn't teach how us to use ANOVA in research, but did the mathematical derivation of ANOVA.
Didn't have a clue all semester. My only C...and in my program, you were allowed ONE C, get a second one and you were out. And that was back when people actually got D's and F's...pre grade inflation.
Didn't have a clue all semester. My only C...and in my program, you were allowed ONE C, get a second one and you were out. And that was back when people actually got D's and F's...pre grade inflation.
