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What was the hardest class youve taken in college?

Even as a physicist, I took Organic Chem and don't know what those whiners were whining about. Sure, I didn't walk out with the hottest mark, but its not like I put a tonne of effort in it. Got a B- (between 70-73%), which isn't bad in Canada.


My hardest classes was a full year of Quantum Mechanics. Nuclear Physics wasn't fun, but I was capable of grasping it moreso than Quantum.
 
Embarrassingly enough, high school algebra. I like to tell myself it was the hopeless teacher (he WAS hopeless, everyone agreed), but I'm not sure I'd have gotten it any better with another teacher.

The next year, in geometry, the algebra made more sense. I think the visual aspect of the shapes, and the rules that applied to them, helped.

I've had 4 semesters of university-level Chinese, and loved every minute of it. So I'm not a total loss...:eek:
 
Hardest but most fun (because I wasn't taking it for credit, so the pressure was off): Organic Chemistry; I got an A.
BUT I had to take bowling (yup, it was the only phys ed I could fit into my schedule) and got the lowest mark in my entire university experience, a D.
I may be the only cum laude graduate with a D in bowling, and proud of it:D
 
Accounting,

It was the hardest....I could barely keep my head up and dry of drool :eek:
 
Mechatronics and "Space Propulsion and Power Management" I found were hard. Mainly due to a ton of material that you had to learn in a condensed time

Most math intensive class I have taken is Design of Machinery which was pretty insane.

I remember freshman year, physics 1 and 2 were hard as it took like 20hrs/week just to do the hw each semester. I remember I would study like 15 hrs for a test and get a 40%. Keep in mind I have a 3.95 gpa as a senior in mechanical engineering lol
 
Stress reduction. God dam i hate that freaking class. Its such a waste of time and money. Its the only decent class though for my PE requirement. And to make it worst. Tomorrow we have an all day class, 10-4 on a Sunday!!! and we don't even get a lunch break. We have to bring a bag lunch like were 5. I don't know how she can do this... people have lives. Plus to make it even more painful. Monday and Tuesday is Passover and i was gonna miss my classes on those days and pull the "jew-card" cause its a religious holiday and go home and make a nice weekend out of it; But NOOOOO i have to stay for this crap :mad: :mad:
This classes causes more stress believe it not. I can't wait till the end of the semester. Thank god its only once a week but meets 130-4 :eek:
 
The first EE class, which was analog circuits. They made it a weed out class so no mercy was given (damn professor retired my senior year, no longer will students know the terrors of 100% of grade final exams :eek: ). It also had a terrible lab, which on the last day had one of the professor come in and say that the lab was worthless but it was important we experienced the basics before we started doing real work.

A couple friends took computer animation, a 3 credit class with 30 hours a week of work. Started with 125 peopled ended with 15. They built their own 3d engine from scratch.
 
puckhead193 said:
Stress reduction. God dam i hate that freaking class. Its such a waste of time and money. Its the only decent class though for my PE requirement. And to make it worst. Tomorrow we have an all day class, 10-4 on a Sunday!!! and we don't even get a lunch break. We have to bring a bag lunch like were 5. I don't know how she can do this... people have lives. Plus to make it even more painful. Monday and Tuesday is Passover and i was gonna miss my classes on those days and pull the "jew-card" cause its a religious holiday and go home and make a nice weekend out of it; But NOOOOO i have to stay for this crap :mad: :mad:
This classes causes more stress believe it not. I can't wait till the end of the semester. Thank god its only once a week but meets 130-4 :eek:
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haha i love pe classes. here they are all pretty much based on attendance. it nice to have mandatory work out times, makes it hard to blow off lol
 
web application development, it didn't help that our teacher was retarded and insisted on teaching cold fusion. I learned more back end (php/mySQL) stuff from tutorials online then I did from that joke of a class.

Although the macromedia director stuff we learned was pretty useless as well, oh wait the title of the thread said hardest class, not pointless, my bad :p
 
dukebound85 said:
haha i love pe classes. here they are all pretty much based on attendance. it nice to have mandatory work out times, makes it hard to blow off lol
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only their is no working out like at the gym... we look through a window for the first 15 mins of class :eek:
 
Hardest Classes? Lets's see-
Accounting 101. First time, D+ Lots of studying, didn't get it. Second time, C-. It was awful. Spring class, on a Satuday morning, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. 34 miles from my house. Through major road construction.

COBOL This class is a 5 letter swear word. Awful teacher, worse book. Fellow student was a programmer for a living. He told me this was the worst programming class he had ever taken. I tend to agree with him.

Classes to learn about Cisco routers. Good classes Very, very tough. Couldn't do it. Study every day, spend hours on Saturdays doing the labs. Passed the first few classes with a C-. Got to the second level classes, walked out 1.5 hours into the first class. Subnetting a subnet? WTF is that??
 
Roger1 said:
COBOL This class is a 5 letter swear word. Awful teacher, worse book. Fellow student was a programmer for a living. He told me this was the worst programming class he had ever taken. I tend to agree with him.
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Was that a long time ago? They don't teach COBOL anymore, do they?

I remember hearing that the IRS still has a lot of COBOL code, and it had to be updated for Y2K, but otherwise I don't know that there's been much demand for new COBOL programmers in recent years.
 
Doctor Q said:
Was that a long time ago? They don't teach COBOL anymore, do they?

I remember hearing that the IRS still has a lot of COBOL code, and it had to be updated for Y2K, but otherwise I don't know that there's been much demand for new COBOL programmers in recent years.
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This was in the fall of 2000. The school said that the state (Michigan) had a lot of legacy COBOL that was still in use. Apparently they felt that was more important than requiring me to learn Linux, Unix of something that is still used everywhere.
 
Roger1 said:
This was in the fall of 2000. The school said that the state (Michigan) had a lot of legacy COBOL that was still in use. Apparently they felt that was more important than requiring me to learn Linux, Unix of something that is still used everywhere.
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I guess somebody has to be the maintenance programmer, but it sounds like a job for people who set their sights pretty low. Clearly not something you'd pick anyway!
 
TheDance511 said:
Like the title says? What is the hardest class you took in college.. I am taking statistcs and i think its the hardest class ive ever taken.. any thoughts?:cool:
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I had to take quantitative methods last year which was basically statistics, economic modelling and hypothesis testing. Just thinking about it makes me sick. I was so certain that I was going to fail, but lucky I got 51 and passed (needed 50 to pass). :D
 
Baron58 said:
Organic Chemistry.

I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
I hate it.
:mad:

It's not that I don't get how stuff works, I just hate having to memorize all the mechanisms and reagents. "Given this compound and these reagents, what is the major organic product of this reaction?" "Given this starting compound and this product, propose a reasonable mechanism for this reaction..."

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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I *love* organic chemistry, but I agree it was one of the hardest classes I ever took. Our introductory biology sequence for bio majors at my college was also very challenging--tough tests and a curve that was a bit less than generous.

Oddly enough, I took a class on the History of Modern India that turned out being a lot harder than I thought, because the professor was a very strict grader. It was an upper level history class with the same professor I had for a lower level history class, but he definitely changed his grading expectations in the higher class.

I found the exact reverse in the sciences...The upper level science classes I took were considerably easier than the introductory sequences.

But none of this, I must say, compares to medical school, which is damn near impossible.
 
The hardest (yet most rewarding) would probably be the HTML/Javascript course I took in first year. It introduced me to the world of beginner programming of websites and design. It was cool. I'm glad I took it. Walked out with an A after countless nights of staying after hours to complete projects.
 
So far it has been my two required art history classes. Each semester consisted of three exams, each exam had 5 definitions, 5 identification (artist, date, where painted, who commissioned, media, and significance), and 2 or 3 comparisons (include all ID info + compare).

Just by looking at that it doesn't seem so hard, but when you are given ~300 artworks/architecture to know only ~10 with that much detail...it gets hard. Also throw in a 4 minute time limit for the ID and 7 minutes for the comparisons.
 
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