S/O Hard Class

[Jalapeñomel]

p-chem or physics II

[iamgrace]

It's a tie. Fucking GIS in 4th yr or air photog in 3rd yr. I just couldn't get that shit.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Assessment in grad school. I thought it'd be about developing good assessments for my students, but it was actually apparently a shit-ton of bell curves and math. I don't know how, but I got an A.

[valetgirl]

Physics, organic chemistry

[CurlyQ284]

Nonparametric statistics.

[Deleted]

Physics or organic chemistry.

[blanca]

I also had to take Econ and just did not get it. My brain just doesn't work that way. I would say either that or biostats were my worst.

[Deleted]

I had a horrible time with a 4000 level Calc class my very first semester. It was way too much to take on my first year of college, let alone my first semester away. I was the only freshman, and most people were in there for the second time. I was thrilled to get out with a C on the first try.

[eddy]

Graduate level measurement class

I was also in my third trimester with Leo. I am suprised the class didn't kill me.

[hulley]

Hardest that I liked: Art and appreciation of music. I learned a ton, though, and am still glad I took it.

Hardest that I didn't like: Applied Finite Mathematics. Hardest thing ever. Professor was from Russia (so bit of a language barrier), helps a dual PhD in math and physics and regularly assigned 40+ hours of homework a week. Hard. As. Fuck. I got an A, but I thought that class was going to kill me. I think the only thing that saved us all was that he had assigned so very much work that he got behind on grading and couldn't finish before the university deadline for grades to be in.

[Moe]

Undergrad? Calc III. I had a terrible professor.

Grad? Biology of Aging. It wasn't that it was hard, it was just one of those courses that the exams never really matched (for me) the content of the class, and I ALWAYS made the mistake of thinking I understood the class and its lectures, then came the exam and I was all HUH? WTF!

I still love the course, and learned a lot from it, even if I suffered so much with the testing.

[MWOS]

bacterial pathogenesis. Them shits are sneaky.

[lilac05]

Fundamentals of Math: Problem Solving. It was a 100 level class, but was just full of WTH moments. We had to write pages upon pages of how to explain 2+2 or other basic math concepts. Describe & explain EVERYTHING. It was awful. It's essentially how common core now has kids do math.

I took more academically challenging stuff, but I'm a nerd and actually liked all of those chem/anatomy classes.

[eddy]

Feb 13, 2014 15:25:52 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Chemistry in high school lol

I legit learned nothing from chemistry. It was so hard.

I am pretty sure the smart lab partner let the rest of us copy.

[spitforspat]

Any type of history was almost impossible for me.

[hymen]

Sophomore year I took a 400-level poli sci class on Constitutional Law. I was an English/education major. I felt way over my head but managed a B.

[melodramatic26]

Statistics. My only C. Ever. I HATED it.

[Moe]

Man, my organic chemistry teacher was absolutely engaging and incredibly gifted as an educator (she's won several ACS awards for her teaching, and now is working on restructuring college chemistry courses as the ACS director-at-large).

I feel lucky.

[lightbulbsun]

This crazy psychology/statistics course. I took it my second to last semester, and I couldn't drop it without taking an extra semester to graduate.

We started out with 20 people in the class and ended up with 8. The prof just sucked and made no sense. All of us studied together, and pretty much everyone who stuck with the class did it because they had to.

I think I got a C, and I was just happy that I passed.

[eb777888]

Economics was so fucking hard for me. I studied my ass off and got a C. My only C. ONE person got a B and half the class failed. I was pretty damn proud of my C.

[Deleted]

Field stratigraphy. There were three of us in the class and I was the only one that passed....with a C.

It's reconstructing past climates/environments and how they have changed based on the rock record.

[birdistheword]

Finance. The only class I ever got a C in. It still haunts me, lol.

[schitzengiggles]

I am in Grad School, and right now am struggling a bit with "Development of Clinical Information Systems".

My undergrad was in Psych, and the only class I disliked/had any bit of trouble with, was Statistics. I still managed a B, but I worked DAMN HARD for it.

[jodinia]

A and P

[eb777888]

Feb 13, 2014 15:32:02 GMT -5 sameoldash said:

definitely econ. especially macro. I DON'T CAREEEEEEEEE. don't care. i could not make myself focus and i feel like i learned exactly nothing. somehow i scraped by with a B, and i actually cried after i got my final exam score lol.

I swear, I felt like I was reading a different language, lol. Did.Not.Get. And god, it was so damn boring. I do feel I'd do better in it today. I just couldn't grasp certain concepts at 18, IDK.

[wambam]

Separations. It's a junior year chemical engineering course.

The professor was HORRENDOUS. He would do a problem with tons of variables. And he'd start out by using one variable, x. And 10 minutes later in the problem he'd starting writing y. And when we asked what y was he'd say "Oh, same thing as x." He would just change variables willy nilly. NO. Not allowed.

Then there was this design project. It's a problem that had never been solved in industry and he expected junior college students to solve it. NO. Unacceptable.

I got in the teens on every exam. Somehow that equated to a C.

That semester I was incredibly depressed and engaging in self-destructive behavior and a lot of it had to do with this class. It was that bad.

[rodeored]

O chem II as an undergrad was pretty terrible, memorizing that many reactions was not easy for me and we lost 2/3 of the class over the course of the semester.

For grad level classes I took one last semester that was basically a survey of biochem, cell bio, molecular bio, and pharmacology all in one semester (15 credits and full time is 9). It was miserable.

[Deleted]

Organic Chem by far. My minor was chem and I thought I was going to have to change it.

[Deleted]

PE

[AmeliaBedelia]

Astronomy.

I thought I would learn about stars and planets and whatnot, but it was lots and lots of complicated math that went way over my history major head.