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What is the worst course you were forced to take?
Personally, I dispise chemistry. Discrete mathematics was also one of my downfalls (I suck at language logic). Everything else I either enjoy or is mostly neutral.
TeleportThis
09-25-2007, 12:57 AM
I hated probability and statistics. I don't think it was so much the subject, and more that our teacher was awful and had a very abrasive personality. She was very good at making the whole class feel uncomfortable for the entire class period.
Jezebel
09-25-2007, 01:22 AM
College 101. It was a required course for all college freshmen, meant to be kind of like an orientation and study skills class. The problem was that the professor was also a school psychologist, and definitely one of those feeling types. We had to do things like talk to the class about our feelings about school and our personal growth. If we didn't volunteer the information, he asked... he took my discomfort as me needing to come out of my shell and talked to me privately a few times because I guess my discomfort stood out. Rather than helping me integrate into the college experience, it only made me feel more alienated and uncomfortable.
We also had to keep detailed records of what we did each day in an organizer for the study skills/time management portion of the class. It was such a waste because I knew I'd never do that again after I left the class... I'm not that meticulous about tracking my time.
There are probably worse classes, but I ended up dropping out of college before graduation (for reasons other than that class :P)
Cato the Younger
09-25-2007, 01:32 AM
I hated probability and statistics. I don't think it was so much the subject, and more that our teacher was awful and had a very abrasive personality. She was very good at making the whole class feel uncomfortable for the entire class period.
From what I understand Statistics is always hard. Apparently Statistics for Business majors at my college is the hardest class in the whole university. Coming out of there with a C means you didn't do too bad.
I hated probability and statistics. *I don't think it was so much the subject, and more that our teacher was awful and had a very abrasive personality. *She was very good at making the whole class feel uncomfortable for the entire class period.
Just to put this out...
When I said discrete mathematics it means stats and probability...
So yeah, I hate that course too...
Guido
09-25-2007, 02:07 AM
In high school I had no patience for History. Some of the stuff is neat and all, I just couldn't stand the courses and the fact that I had to memorize so much stuff that I didn't find interesting, which is naturally almost all forgotten now. I didn't like English much, and I really didn't like French.
University I didn't like biology or chemistry that much, and opted for physics and math courses. The first stats course I took wasn't all that bad, probably due to the teacher I had. The second one I took was horrible, and goes down in history as the worst course I have ever taken. Second place goes to this linear algebra course I took. I have absolutely no patience for abstract proofs. If it can't be applied to anything, why bother?
Firelie
09-25-2007, 02:43 AM
I didn't particularly like chemistry, but I liked burning things...
I hated physucks, and I liked pre-calc/trig, but I totally didn't get it no matter how hard I tried.
In high school I had no patience for History. Some of the stuff is neat and all, I just couldn't stand the courses and the fact that I had to memorize so much stuff that I didn't find interesting, which is naturally almost all forgotten now. I didn't like English much, and I really didn't like French.
University I didn't like biology or chemistry that much, and opted for physics and math courses. The first stats course I took wasn't all that bad, probably due to the teacher I had. The second one I took was horrible, and goes down in history as the worst course I have ever taken. Second place goes to this linear algebra course I took. I have absolutely no patience for abstract proofs. If it can't be applied to anything, why bother?
I must say Canadian History was boring as hell and I did badly in the course. But world history was tonnes better. It was like a very good story book full of irony :D
TeleportThis
09-25-2007, 04:54 PM
Second place goes to this linear algebra course I took. I have absolutely no patience for abstract proofs. If it can't be applied to anything, why bother?
Our linear algebra course wasn't so much proofs but how to work with vectors and matrices. This was extremely useful for solving circuit problems until I finally bought a calculator that could do simultaneous equations.
qwerty
09-25-2007, 07:28 PM
Worst course I've ever taken and for the sake of getting a double major is some software engineering subject. It's not that the subject matter is inherently evil it's more the lecturer. He's the sort of guy that makes me think that academics are people who have given up rather than people who push the boundaries.
Constantly he accepts what people tell him without question and he pushes that on us. Telling us with factual backing that the science is limited and that it can not be improved. He idea of lecturing is not to cause ripples - someone has obviously told him that most of my fellow students are only looking for a job and as such he drills it in that you do things this way without thinking and as a result you will get a job.
I absolutely hate it when people tell me I can't do something and because of that I tend to either question everything he says with rigor and show him to be the idiot that he is or just keep my mouth shut and not focus on the lecture.
Guido
09-25-2007, 11:10 PM
Second place goes to this linear algebra course I took. I have absolutely no patience for abstract proofs. If it can't be applied to anything, why bother?
Our linear algebra course wasn't so much proofs but how to work with vectors and matrices. *This was extremely useful for solving circuit problems until I finally bought a calculator that could do simultaneous equations.
Don't get me wrong, vectors and matrices revolutionized the way I go about my thinking! The linear algebra classes I had before were great, minus the silly proofs. I almost see someone asking me to prove something as criticism actually hahaha. "I don't beleive you, prove it."
....I really didn't like French.....
Where are you located in order for French to be in your education system?...Canada?
In all honesty, I never completed HS.. :(, I figured that making money was more important at the time, basically the system failed me, with that general system principle they had! It wasn't that couldn't do the assignments, it was extremely boring for me.
I have returned to school to finish.
Second place goes to this linear algebra course I took. I have absolutely no patience for abstract proofs. If it can't be applied to anything, why bother?
Classic INTJ argument.
I really liked the proofs though, it made me feel smart because it confounded everyone else *;D
In all honesty, I never completed HS.. :(, I figured that making money was more important at the time, basically the system failed me, with that general system principle they had! It wasn't that couldn't do the assignments, it was extremely boring for me.
I have the same problem; the generalness of the content bored me. Only thing that made me keep going was that I knew I could make 10% more money after completing University than I could after HS. :-/
HackerX
09-27-2007, 08:24 PM
College 101. It was a required course for all college freshmen, meant to be kind of like an orientation and study skills class. The problem was that the professor was also a school psychologist, and definitely one of those feeling types. We had to do things like talk to the class about our feelings about school and our personal growth. If we didn't volunteer the information, he asked... he took my discomfort as me needing to come out of my shell and talked to me privately a few times because I guess my discomfort stood out. Rather than helping me integrate into the college experience, it only made me feel more alienated and uncomfortable.
We also had to keep detailed records of what we did each day in an organizer for the study skills/time management portion of the class. It was such a waste because I knew I'd never do that again after I left the class... I'm not that meticulous about tracking my time.
There are probably worse classes, but I ended up dropping out of college before graduation (for reasons other than that class *:P)
Ha, My uni had a similar course for starters. It was a requirement for all faculities except for IT, because they knew we'd never actually do it.
The worse course I did was a Maths subject (that was supposeably related to IT), the problem with it was the only assessment was the final exam, worth 100%, so there was no way of knowing how you were going throughout the semester until you hit the exam
....I really didn't like French.....
Where are you located in order for French to be in your education system?...Canada?
In all honesty, I never completed HS.. :(, I figured that making money was more important at the time, basically the system failed me, with that general system principle they had! It wasn't that couldn't do the assignments, it was extremely boring for me.
A lot of Australian high schools have a french language subject (including the one I went to). It tends to be a matter of - oh, that teacher of there can speak <insert language here>, therefore we now have a <insert language here> subject.
The worse course I did was a Maths subject (that was supposeably related to IT), the problem with it was the only assessment was the final exam, worth 100%, so there was no way of knowing how you were going throughout the semester until you hit the exam
Wow... in a course like that. I'd probably do nothing until the last week before finals. :o
Guido
09-28-2007, 12:55 AM
....I really didn't like French.....
Where are you located in order for French to be in your education system?...Canada?
Quebec :o
wedekit
09-28-2007, 01:05 AM
I love statistics. I have to take 3 courses of it because I am a psychology major.
Worst course? Every single history class I've ever had to take. Nothing bores me more than history.
HackerX
09-29-2007, 01:29 AM
The worse course I did was a Maths subject (that was supposeably related to IT), the problem with it was the only assessment was the final exam, worth 100%, so there was no way of knowing how you were going throughout the semester until you hit the exam
Wow... in a course like that. I'd probably do nothing until the last week before finals. :o
And that's why it sucked :P
Evalis
09-29-2007, 06:29 PM
Worst course I have been forced to take (in college) was Training and Development, because the teacher we had was unable to describe anything as a theory or concept, and instead opted to use examples out of her own working life. In addition, every test was based on what some buzzword or other meant, in full detail as was listed in the text. She was also horrendously unskilled at writing questions in a manner that extracted the -correct- information. Examples include: "Describe (Insert some buzzword)", "What motivates people?", "List your favorite course objective"
.......
The worst course for my brother was PhysEd. Yes. Gym! In college! Apparently the school thought all the computer programmers were out of shape slobs that needed to get themselves into shape so they wouldn't die of a heart attack during the course. Either that or the grade averages of computer programmers were so high that it was putting the other students to shame and they needed a *cough* legitimate way to lower it.
wedekit
09-30-2007, 12:22 AM
....I really didn't like French.....
Where are you located in order for French to be in your education system?...Canada?
Quebec :o
My schools have always offered French, and I'm in Houston, Texas.
....I really didn't like French.....
Where are you located in order for French to be in your education system?...Canada?
Quebec :o
My schools have always offered French, and I'm in Houston, Texas.
I wonder how Texans sound speaking French :thinking:
deicruxified
09-30-2007, 04:10 AM
the worst course i took was economics...
Oh yeah... I hated economics too. It was such a pointless course, I don't think I really learned anything that wasn't common sense.
bikerscars
09-30-2007, 12:45 PM
advanced calculus kicked my ass...
was the seed that eventually caused me to become disillusioned with college and drop out(not one of my better decisions)
Guido
09-30-2007, 08:49 PM
I took an economics course once as an elective. I showed up for the first class, and they start teaching everyone about 'rates of change.' I didn't buy the text, and just read the slides off the internet and ended up with a B. Granted it was an intro course, it was a big waste of time. Luckily, it didn't waste my time cause I skipped all the classes :D
biased
10-04-2007, 11:05 PM
Anything related to mathematics that has graphs. Whenever graphs get introduced in makes the class into a tedious bore which I can hardly seem to find any practical purpose for drawing 50 graphs as for a homework assignment. Anyone got any ideas on how to make math interesting and not a tedious bore?
OneBadMother
10-05-2007, 02:29 PM
Yeah, French sucked for me for the first ten years, but now it seems to be almost a second language to me. :P
My least favorite course would probably be modern US history. It combines almost everything boring into one fantastic package.
Entropy
10-12-2007, 06:31 PM
For me, in college, it was English 101. We were assigned readings, then had to write personal essays in which we tried to adopt the author's writing style. It was a bit like tracing, but worse because it was also invasive.
"Okay, in this essay I want you to write about your experiences with school as a child. Write about how you engaged with your parents and how you felt transitioning from home to school. Also, I want you to try and write about your experience the way Rodriquez did. Then I want you to make 27 copies of this essay so that you can share with the class."
::)
thegnat
10-13-2007, 05:16 PM
Econ. I had a Writing 111, which was pretty easy. Pointless, but I got solid grades on my essays. So I lived. Oh and the book was really stupid that we had to read - Amazon.com's review annihilated it - but it was written by the professor...
*However* I think Econ makes way too many assumptions and is un-realistic and the 'logic' really doesn't work for me.
Plus, the math isn't really all that accurate. Like the graphs that are linear - some should probably be curved. But they aren't. And of course some assume that about 50 things are held constant which is really ridiculous. And measuring happiness you gain from something? how? utils? what a name for a unit!
And of course they're assuming you can buy half of something and a quarter of another. Which really is impossible. Hm, let me have 1/4 of that cookie, can you ring me up for 1/4 the price? No.
And they think it's a science. It is definitely not a science. My science/math purist doesn't like the class at all... I feel like I have to dumb myself down for it...
Sorry all you economists here...But yeah it's not my thing...I'm a scientist through and through...
Oh -BIO 113 - too easy - thus I made it difficult for myself. It was the class combined with orgo that made me decide to go straight chem and not bio chem. I never liked cell biology. I shouldn't have taken it. I thought I'd give it a chance, but it was boring to me. Didn't give me enough "why". I got "this happens and I'm not telling you why - just memorize it" I hate straight memorization.
MichaelH
10-13-2007, 05:57 PM
The way to make math and history interesting is to give them practical applications.
For math, this is often a stretch. The practical applications are in _other_ classes, to be taken after the student knows the material. For instance, linear algebra concepts are not just useful but _implicit_ when looking at program complexity. ("Why is O(n) better than O(n log n) better than O(n2)?") My calculus textbook tried to be relevant by providing heating/cooling examples using yams in the oven. I loved to mock that. ("How long until dinner's done, dear?" "Just a minute, let me get out my calculus book...the yam is 140 degrees...the oven is 350...Newtonian heat transfer says to set up these equations...now integrate one side...")
I would have loved to see a history class taught as concepts instead of testable factoids. The fact that the war of 1812 occurred in 1812 will never be useful for me. The idea that Britain tried to force American sailors to serve as British soldiers, and thus America declared war, is a useful lesson. In international relations, you can't _force_ your friends to fight for you. (Current events bear this out also.) That sort of class is difficult to prepare and administrate, so we end up with lots of useless memorization and association. It's a pity.
My worst class was differential equations, just like others here. The instructor was a nice guy, but I don't think he taught that particular subject well. Most of the class was lost most of the time, and I never did get a good explanation for why you could sometimes separate parts of the equation from "dx" and sometimes not. Oh, well. If I ever need it, wikipedia is a click away!
Econ. *I had a Writing 111, which was pretty easy. Pointless, but I got solid grades on my essays. So I lived. Oh and the book was really stupid that we had to read - Amazon.com's review annihilated it - but it was written by the professor...
*However* I think Econ makes way too many assumptions and is un-realistic and the 'logic' really doesn't work for me.
Plus, the math isn't really all that accurate. * Like the graphs that are linear - some should probably be curved. *But they aren't. *And of course some assume that about 50 things are held constant which is really ridiculous. * And measuring happiness you gain from something? how? utils? what a name for a unit!
And of course they're assuming you can buy half of something and a quarter of another. *Which really is impossible. *Hm, let me have 1/4 of that cookie, can you ring me up for 1/4 the price? *No.
And they think it's a science. *It is definitely not a science. *My science/math purist doesn't like the class at all... I feel like I have to dumb myself down for it...
Sorry all you economists here...But yeah it's not my thing...I'm a scientist through and through...
I think one thing you need to perhaps look at, is whether you are reading things too literally. You seem to like cut and dried maths. Economics is about concepts, you need to take a step back from the equation (or graph) and look at the concept.
It’s the concepts that can give you great insights into other problems; believe it or not, some theory in Economics could apply to Chemistry or at least an element of it. Funny thing is that you may never even realize that it was from prior analogy or concept as it’s your "intuition" that raises the suggestion.
For me, in college, it was English 101. We were assigned readings, then had to write personal essays in which we tried to adopt the author's writing style. It was a bit like tracing, but worse because it was also invasive.
"Okay, in this essay I want you to write about your experiences with school as a child. Write about how you engaged with your parents and how you felt transitioning from home to school. Also, I want you to try and write about your experience the way Rodriquez did. Then I want you to make 27 copies of this essay so that you can share with the class."
::)
Oh, that would be terrible..... To protect my myself I'd get sarcastic and make some things up...
LOL.. like...
You could make up that at home you sneaked your father’s alcohol and when starting at school you sneaked a bottle to school each day and gave your friends a mouthful each...
Actually, a kid at a school in England here got expelled for something similar.... *the teacher asked everyone to write about their most embarrassing moment at school.... he wrote about getting a very large erection while reading an essay in front of the class..... ;D *
thegnat
10-13-2007, 08:08 PM
I think one thing you need to perhaps look at, is whether you are reading things too literally. You seem to like cut and dried maths. Economics is about concepts, you need to take a step back from the equation (or graph) and look at the concept.
It’s the concepts that can give you great insights into other problems; believe it or not, some theory in Economics could apply to Chemistry or at least an element of it. Funny thing is that you may never even realize that it was from prior analogy or concept as it’s your "intuition" that raises the suggestion.
I do have a bad habit of reading things too literally.
Intuitively it does make sense with what we are learning. I can see that. I can also see the concepts. And even with all the assumptions, things seem to work out somewhat intuitively.
I don't know. To me it almost makes more sense intuitively than it does mathematically/graphically. Because in order to apply mathematics they have to assume things about masses of people.
I guess what really bothers me is the entire assumptions thing. If I clear my head and accept that that's the way it is, econ goes much better for me. Because I can turn off the "read it literally" switch. It's just that it's there....
Although I still wouldn't watch 6 games of basketball and get a 63% on an exam just because economically my opportunity cost is the highest it can be without exceeding my limit. or whatever it was. Someone "rationally" chose that...::shudders::. I'd choose the 1 game of basketball and get a 90%.....
As you can see - I probably over-analyze, over-complicate things....and toss them around a bit too much...
OneBadMother
10-13-2007, 10:38 PM
I would have loved to see a history class taught as concepts instead of testable factoids. The fact that the war of 1812 occurred in 1812 will never be useful for me. The idea that Britain tried to force American sailors to serve as British soldiers, and thus America declared war, is a useful lesson. In international relations, you can't _force_ your friends to fight for you. (Current events bear this out also.) That sort of class is difficult to prepare and administrate, so we end up with lots of useless memorization and association. It's a pity.
I heartily agree. If they could stop wasting time on the unimportant details like dates and relate the concepts back to the larger picture, that would be great. I had trouble writing history essays because I never knew what exactly they wanted me to do. Spit back out what I just learned, plus a whole bunch of citations?
mind_wander
10-16-2007, 10:33 AM
Although, I know how to express myself in my writing; my problem is minor grammer problems. Yeah, some of you INTJ's might be flipping out or something. At least, I can freely express myself in my writing a positive side, also I hate math. I can count, add, subtract, divide, mulitple, and other advance math, etc.
vulcan
10-18-2007, 02:21 AM
I enjoy English/Literature a lot. I like the historical aspect of learning English Lit as well as the lessons in the stories. I am decent at writing, but I have to turn essays into a formula. Intro, body, body, body, conclusion. Makes it easier.
I don't like people making shitty arguments about the symbolism of events/characters in literature, however. Maybe that's my judging side. I don't like a lot of the uselessness of studying English.
The worse class ever had to be HS economics. The teacher read the powerpoint slides that were available for download and made no extra insights and never answered my questions and got annoyed that I even asked.
I'm not very good at math, or at least I think so, but comparatively I guess I am above average. I don't really enjoy math classes in general. They are TOO abstract.
My favorite classes are psychology.
Gabrielle
11-07-2007, 05:27 AM
I HATED English. I couldn't stand "what did Joe Smith think when he said this". If it's not written in the book, clearly it wasn't important enough to mention it, so why even care about it? Arrgh.
I also hated US history Junior year. Right around war of 1812 I lost all interest and slept through every single lecture.
HarleyQuinn
11-07-2007, 01:02 PM
Oh.... boy.
Is it sad that there are tons of examples off the top of my head? :-/
1: Any Spanish class in High School. I don't mind learning languages (I did good with Beginning Latin) but for whatever reason, Spanish was the equivalent of speaking while choking on soapy water mixed with marbles.
2: Economics in High School. It was the first time the teacher was instructing that class, her teaching style was completely devoid of my way of learning, and the most interesting subject (Stock Market) was saved towards the end of the year. Needless to say, I wound up with a D but still made the most money when we had to choose stocks and present them to the class.
3: Intro to Statistics freshman year of college. Hard to understand teacher plus 30-35 students in a big classroom + teacher's inability to explain things AT ALL (Even resorting to the textbook made things not as easy) led to a C and unfortunately a dislike of math now. Prior to that, I was able to get A's and B's with ease and genuinely enjoyed math classes.
brewmaster
11-07-2007, 01:57 PM
I thought English 103 was the worst course I've ever taken, and then I recieved a C in it. It was a course designed to take care of 101 and 102 in one shot. Because I recieved a C I had to take another damn English course.
Then I looked over the list of courses and chose great American books, for the sole reason that I knew there would be no public speaking. That was quite possibly my own personal hell, first, fiction is a complete waste of time to me, and then the books that were chosen for that course were miserable in their own right.
Bossy Mom
11-08-2007, 04:52 PM
I hated chemistry, computer science, and those Mickey Mouse education courses. Those were torture. It's strange that my son has two degrees, one in biology and the other in computer science. I always loved languages and English literature. I used to be a high school Spanish teacher, but I just couldn't stand those heathens called teenagers. I make more money than I would if I were teaching, and I don't have to take my job home with me.
I would love to be an English literature scholor or do research at the Cato Insitute or the Ayn Rand Institute.
The Many
11-08-2007, 11:07 PM
Maths. I despise theory which has no particular practical value, and we were never given any reason for its existence. I was good at it - it was merely a question of analyzing according to formulas. But it was boring - especially due to always having incompetent teachers setting the pace either too fast or too slow. These days I do however see quite some use for mathematics and logic which has made me more interested in it.
Gabrielle
11-11-2007, 08:15 PM
I don't know... I liked connect the dots as a small child, and graphs were just those. I was also competitive, so I raced against the clock and other people to see who could finish first. That made graphs less boring.
xtremegeek
11-13-2007, 04:58 PM
In high school, speech class and typing class were my two least favorite.
In college, Art History was my least favorite course.
In grad school, Effective Oral Communication was my least favorite course.
Marja
11-13-2007, 06:14 PM
In high school, speech class and typing class were my two least favorite.
In college, Art History was my least favorite course.
In grad school, Effective Oral Communication was my least favorite course.
What is Effective Oral Communication? Is it like the class mentioned in The Catcher in the Rye where someone would speak and people could yell out 'digression'? It didn't sound useful.
xtremegeek
11-13-2007, 07:38 PM
What is Effective Oral Communication? Is it like the class mentioned in The Catcher in the Rye where someone would speak and people could yell out 'digression'? It didn't sound useful.
It was supposed to teach managers how to communicate effectively in various work situations. For example, if a tragic accident occurs in the workplace, what's the appropriate way for the manager to communicate to 1) all employees, 2) news media, 3) family of the employee(s) affected.
Henry
11-14-2007, 01:58 AM
I thought English 103 was the worst course I've ever taken, and then I recieved a C in it. It was a course designed to take care of 101 and 102 in one shot. Because I recieved a C I had to take another damn English course.
Then I looked over the list of courses and chose great American books, for the sole reason that I knew there would be no public speaking. That was quite possibly my own personal hell, first, fiction is a complete waste of time to me, and then the books that were chosen for that course were miserable in their own right.
You have to analyze fiction in order for it to be enjoyable.
xanodel
11-14-2007, 03:20 AM
Writing, expository writing. I hated it mainly because the college could have allowed me to take a higher senior level class, but decides to (oops) not inform me and stuck me in a lower level one. It covered pretty much the same stuff from AP english lit (actually I learned more there). The upside was I slept in the class every day due to boredom, and still came out with an A+ because my papers were good. n_n
brewmaster
11-14-2007, 11:28 AM
You have to analyze fiction in order for it to be enjoyable.
Thats the problem, I just don't give a shit.
I just finished reading:
"Tilling the chromatin landscape: emerging methods for the discovery and profiling of protein-DNA interactions" Rodriguez and Huang, Biochem. Cell Biol. 83:525-534
Now thats literature!
That would probably be RS which was compulsary at my old school in austria. It was such a waste of time since all we did in those lessons was nothing. It was basically 50 minutes of wasted time every single lesson.
I absolutely detested Corporate Accounting.... and especially consolidations.
An oasis for every ISTJ with a good memory that ever walked this planet... :irked:
I do have a bad habit of reading things too literally.
Intuitively it does make sense with what we are learning. I can see that. I can also see the concepts. And even with all the assumptions, things seem to work out somewhat intuitively.
I don't know. To me it almost makes more sense intuitively than it does mathematically/graphically. Because in order to apply mathematics they have to assume things about masses of people.
I guess what really bothers me is the entire assumptions thing. If I clear my head and accept that that's the way it is, econ goes much better for me. Because I can turn off the "read it literally" switch. It's just that it's there....
As you can see - I probably over-analyze, over-complicate things....and toss them around a bit too much...
Yip, but assumptions always have to be made, that’s how ideas for experiments evolve.
I have a sense of logic and I believe a pretty well developed framework. When I have an idea I consider it to be correct until there is sufficient evidence to refute it.
In terms of economics... remember that vertical line being one of inelastic demand? And that other graph showing perfectly elastic demand? And the concept of diminishing marginal returns?
Do you think these could apply to Chemistry? I bet they do.
I've always tried to have as wide a knowledge base as possible as analogies and reasoning in different fields can be very insightful in the one I am looking into.
mrswentworth
12-02-2007, 09:53 AM
Chemistry definitely. I just hate it with no reason. Too bad it's compulsory for me.
JP4EET
11-26-2008, 03:38 PM
I love it now but in college my hardest course was Analog Signal Processing. I loved the math part of it but it was TOUGH!!! I had a incredibly hard processor but he changed my whole life so I give him a ton of credit
Frodis
11-26-2008, 04:00 PM
I feel so old. I can barely remember high school. I think, at the time, I hated US history. But looking back, I wish I had paid more attention in that class. But in my defense, the teacher was usually drunk. He did throw good keggers though. Or so I heard. :)
In college, I think it was English. I figured, didn't I already learn all this crap in high school?
Grad school...hmm...nothing really. I basically like to absorb all the information that will fit into my little brain. Now, I'd actually like to go back and take some of the courses I wasn't required to take (and didn't have the time for), like economics, philosophy, maybe even (gasp) history!
dandylion
11-26-2008, 04:10 PM
English 1A in college. I don't hate English in general; I've actually really enjoyed it in my high school years when I took the advanced courses, but I had a lot of trouble with this class because the teacher grades really harshly. I'd think I wrote a pretty well-thought paper, and then she finds something to nitpick at and gives me a C or B- or something. Plus, the discussions that we had frequently are stupid. No one ever said anything insightful; they just pointed out the obvious things, and I never participated willingly because I feel I didn't need to say what's obvious. Not to mention, all the topics were stupid.
RichardCMongler
11-26-2008, 04:49 PM
Molecular Biotechnology.
Another contender would be Analytical Chemistry, namely the 12-hour a week laboratory component.
OrrDavey
11-26-2008, 04:59 PM
Econometrics.
I never really went to class. Normally I can read text book chapters rather quickly and learn this way. In this class, I spent several hours on each chapter and still did only OK on the exams.
Naturelle
11-26-2008, 05:01 PM
Urm, I pretty much hate school. I learn much better on my own, because I am not forced to think like the rest of the cattle.
Best classes or most favorite in high school: electrical schematics, engineering model making.
Worst classes or ones that I detest: english, math.
Don't ask me how I can ace engineering classes and bomb in math.
I hate geometry. When I'm in math class, I want to be using numbers, not words. Why I should have to prove that the measure of angle A equals the measure of angle A is beyond me. I also hate it because there are so many things that I can figure out intuitively, and yet have to go through a page long proof to explain how I got there.
SShack
11-26-2008, 08:03 PM
Cultural Diversity in the Media (you can probably replace "media" with any liberal arts subject and the class is probably the same).
It wasn't the college PC-ness of it that bothered me -- I'm good at tuning that stuff out. But as somebody who tends toward both Ne and Fe (as well as being gay), everything about the class was so freaking obvious it just killed me. I knew exactly what all the lectures would be about, what all the special guests would say, exactly what I should write and got an A in the class despite only attending a third of the classes. (Also, I mentioned I was gay in the class, which probably got me an automatic A anyhow)
I'm guessing the class is valuable for certain self-absorbed types who are just clueless about the experiences of others, but it was mandatory for me and absolutely dreadful and useless.
Nikita
11-26-2008, 08:05 PM
Chemistry, Statistics, Economics, U.S. History, and Political Science all share that honor.
Monte314
11-26-2008, 08:12 PM
I'm teaching a graduate stats course and an undergraduate discrete math course this semester. Last year I taught ancient Greek (the language), and the year before that, high school chemistry.
Does this make me a bad dog?
Moriarty
11-26-2008, 08:18 PM
Interpersonal communications was a course that make me want to cry. Pillow conflict resolution method? I still remember that goofy stuff after all this time..
I also hated courses that required a great deal of composition. It's no wonder I took up a semi-pro drinking career my freshman year.
Home Ec. I failed that class. Thank goodness it was just a sub part of a class, along with other sub-classes, including woodworking, and drafting. Sure, I can derive Ohm's Law from Maxwell's Equations, but I can't remember what the parts of an egg are beyond the white and yolk.
dragonsscout
11-26-2008, 11:26 PM
Chemistry, ugh. I did really well in the class but I thought it was really boring. Aside from that, I don't like or do well with series and sequences in mathematics. It screwed me over in the last calculus class that I took. I can deal with, and even enjoy, the other math stuff, just not those. I have some sort of block with them.
Dave C C
11-26-2008, 11:36 PM
Public speaking.
Hjordis
11-27-2008, 12:25 AM
I agree with everyone who said history. World history was okay because the teacher was really good, but US history was awful. Both required memorizing facts, though, which I can't stand. I also agree with math. It was easy enough, but way too boring.
I'm like other people here; if a course doesn't interest me I only do enough work to pass it. It's rather annoying that people judge me based on my grades, but I can't be bothered to care too much.
Nikita
11-27-2008, 04:17 AM
oh, and Tax and Business Strategy and Tax Policy. How I ever managed to write that paper and do well on it I do not know. 25+ pages on Tax Policy, really? It was like pulling teeth.
Jgib5328
11-27-2008, 09:59 AM
I hated high school chemistry and I hate my probability course right now. It's an interesting class, but it's structured terribly, and it's frustrating.
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