Posted by: ScoobyDoo
Apr 7, 2008
(39 days and 8 hours ago)
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Your most difficult and worst class?
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What's your most difficult class? And what's your WORST class? Worst, as in most pointless, tedious, etc. My most difficult class that I took was probably Physics 2. Some difficult concepts, in my opinion, and also pointless concepts. Spent many weekends doing nothing but studying for that class. The work paid off, though. My worst class, in terms of work and usefulness, would probably have to be my differential equations class. The homework assignments due every 2 weeks take several hours (10+ on average, probably) and is usually followed by a test the next day. This homework assignment is particularly crappy in that it has problems whose solutions in the solutions manual are multiple pages long. This one that I'm skipping has a 3.5 page long solution :) Oh joy. Pointless? Yeah.
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Person and Time
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Most difficult class I took was semiconductors, too much quantum physics and the teacher couldn't teach. Then again I didn't really try that hard in the class. Worst class was intro to animal biology... some odd reason it was a requirement for one of my majors (what that has to do with Electrical Engineering...). Teacher was old and boring, class was a midterm and final with no homework of which were multiple choice. Had a 5 hour lab once a week where we watched movies about random animals and were asked questions about the movies afterward. Why hate DiffyQs? I actually liked that class, then again I lucked out and had an amazing teacher for it (rare to find a good math teacher). |
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Ragu o Ragula
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Apr 7, 2008
(39 days and 5 hours ago)
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I hate diff. eq. because of two things: (1) these long homework assignments and (2) the assignments being due the day before the test, leaving less time to actually study. That's kinda odd though, haha. I don't see why you'd need that biology at all. That 5 hour lab sounds like a killer. Labs have always sucked for me unless it was really hands on (that doesn't include mixing little chemicals together). Quantum physics can bite you in the bum. I'm taking that now, as well. Made a 1/6 on my last test 8D I died a little bit inside. Sometimes you just get stuck with a bad teacher (not my case, I guess). If only you could foresee things like this :P It'd save you from a lot of pain. |
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ScoobyDoo
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Apr 7, 2008
(39 days and 3 hours ago)
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I haven't had any difficult classes. Russian destroyed my life, but I did really well in it, so I can't say it was hard...just a LOT of work (we met 7 times a week for an hour each time, plus an hour or two of homework a night). My worst class was Intro to Poli Sci: American Politics. I was expecting it to be stupid, but I figured that learning about checks & balances and the legislative branch and the judicial branch and whatever would be pretty easy. And it turns out, for any of the other poli sci profs on campus, that's exactly what that class is about. But I got the one prof who taught it differently. He decided to make it about racism/sexism. As a white dude, it ended up being very uncomfortable. Not necessarily his fault, but I spoke up in class exactly TWICE all semester, and both times the other people in the class gave me the cold shoulder. |
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DeWayne Mann
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Apr 7, 2008
(39 days and 3 hours ago)
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My worst class I took... I can't even remember the name of it. I think I'm blokcing it out. Well, anyway it was a philosophical lingusitic class. There were two books we had to read that didn't make any sense. That and the prof was absolutely "in love" with the author. I'm sure the books are really good on a really deep level, but I guess I don't think deeply. And the grade for the class was based on one paper. So Here I was writing a paper based on crap I didn't understand. I did pass on BS. But I wouldn't take a class like that again. More practical, less meditation. |
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Lady Flare
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Apr 7, 2008
(39 days and 2 hours ago)
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Reminds me of my English 2 class that I forgot about. It was very philosophical as well and those things were obviously beyond me :P Didn't know anything about what the professor was talking about. |
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ScoobyDoo
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Apr 8, 2008
(38 days and 13 hours ago)
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The Law of Torts. Too many cases, too little time :/ |
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Dragonair
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Apr 8, 2008
(38 days and 5 hours ago)
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Ugh, Old English was hell on earth. Understanding the original version of Canterbury Tales...ugh...so boring. Definitely the worst. Most difficult...I can't think of one..I study English, so nothing there is as difficult as engineering or science related courses. |
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brandii
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Apr 17, 2008
(29 days and 4 hours ago)
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I didn't do very well in my Aegean Bronze Age course. I need to do okay on the final. |
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Panzer Mk ll
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May 2, 2008
(14 days and 17 hours ago)
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