Hardest class you've ever taken?

[Mears]

Well, I'm taking a Discrete Math class that is being taught by a prof. and a TA who can't even figure out how to do the homework problems that they assign.

 

[Superdoopercooper]

After 5 years at one of this nation's most respected institutions, I'd have to say any class that dealt with theoretical probability and statistics gave me the most problems. I just couldn't "see" Poisson processes and the like!!

Also, DSP Classes gave me a loopty loop... and dang it.... electricity and magnitism. Also, multivariable calculus. I just couldn't integrate over 3 dimensions worth a darn... which is why E&M was a problem I thin.

Diff Eq's wasn't bad, though, for those of you worried about it.

Now that i think about it... EE was just HARD. Out in the workplace... it is so much easier. Working is kinda boring/downhill after engineering school, unless you find that really challenging job (which I haven't yet).... hehehehe...

 

[flambus]

probability was the hardest. the subject matter wasn't hard to grasp, the prof made it hard.

 

[misle]

The hardest classes that I've had so far are Calc II and Advanced C Programming. I happen to be taking both of these classes this semester, and I'm getting my @ss kicked by them. I'm so far behind and I have a program due Wednesday and a Calc II Exam on Friday. AAArrrggghhh!! What a pain.

 

[Fausto]

I had a year of physical chemistry in college that about killed me. Chemistry mixed with calculus..oboy!!:disgust:

Fausto

 

[TheBlondOne]

Poli sci stats. Hands down. The worst four credits of my life. ...But I did learn a heck of a lot.

 

[Viper GTS]

Differential Equations

I dropped out of it twice.



Viper GTS

 

[guyver01]

Physics for Computer Science students... oy! I took it P/NC, and got an NC :|

 

[bunker]

Quantitative Chemistry. I found it more confusing than Organic Chem.

 

[Rudee]

2nd yr Engineering, Thermodynamics. Yowza! How I managed to pull of a B, I don't know.

 

[GoldenBear]

<< I have a feeling this Calc II class will turn out to be it

Wait till you hit upper division. Calc II might be a transitional class but it's not that hard afterall. At least it's something you can "practice makes perfect".

However, GoldenBear's stupid comments clearly indicates his level of intelligence, which makes sense of why he's asking this question.

serialb >>

Uh, considering I'm not a math major, I'd say it is. Is there something that I'll be transitioning into, serialb, if that is in fact your real name?

 

[agg123456789]

The hardest class I have ever been in was probably modern physics...over the summer...the entire 2 honors credit course..packed into 3 weeks....


agg123456789

 

[ucdnam]

Like most of you, I found biochem to be the hardest class I had in my time at at institution, UC Davis. To me, it was an upper division weeder class to seperate the med students from the wanna-be med students.
I was happy to get a C in that class, and this was after I went to every 8 am lecture for the entire quarter. All I could manage was a C.

 

[serialb]

Well GB, as you are an econ major, get over with this and you will be fine. From most of the replies, you can tell most of us are engineering majors here. Personally, I have no idea what upper division Economics will talk about, but I am sure anyone, I mean ANYONE, can get over with Calc II as long as you work the problems. If you are not good at math, work more. That's all about math (at least this Calc) in the US (I grew up in Hong Kong).

serialb (not my real name by the way )

 

[worth]

I'm taking it right now, AP Calculus BC at this public pound-me-in-the-ass school. Average SAT scores in that class are 1300+ :|

 

[HombrePequeno]

I have a feeling that Calculus is going to be hard considering I skipped Trig.

 

[ucdnam]

I forgot most folks are still in high school. Wait till you get to college and apply the calculus you're learning now to physics, chem, econ, evolution, and even ecology. It's amazing

 

[fatalbert]

<< The hardest class I have ever taken was biochemistry. That class will seriously kick your ass in the face (does that even make sense? ahaha) >>



lol

I am majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology!

So far though, I would have to say my junior year of Spanish in high school.

I hated the teacher so much that it blinded my ability to do any work:|

now i am taking Ancient Greek as my foreign language and that is much easier

 

[Ameesh]

numerical analysis, i took one class and drooped my math double major

imagine doing diffeq's on matricies of matricies, what apain in the ass, mostly because ofthe terminology.

 

[AMDPwred]

I haven't really had that many difficult classes in my life. But I guess I would have to say these programming classes are pretty difficult.

 

[MJT2k]

Digital Circuits. All that binary, Hexadecimal, and boolean Algerbra drove me up a wall, but I got through it with a C.

Digital Circuits - the hardest 3 credit class I know of next to the 5 credit Java class in the CST program at my college. I don't know how someone can get through a 1200 page book on Java in 15 weeks

 

[nd]

So far, my most challenging course has been Circuit Analysis. I learned a tremendous amount and have a fairly good understanding, and came out with a C.

I studied very hard for the quizzes/exams, but sometimes I just couldn't do enough. My biggest problem was exam time.. I could almost NEVER finish the exam in the time allotted. Once I get the exam back and look at it, all the problems are very doable though.

 

[jsbush]

Home Economics sowing is harder then you think.

 

[reitz]

Without a doubt, the hardest class I've ever taken was Zoology. 3 credits, 3 hours of lecture/week, and 5 hours of lab/week. Lecture tests were a combination of short answer and essay, and generally took 2 to 3 hours to complete.

In the lab portion, we were basically handed a scalpel and a dead animal on the way through the door, and were told to dissect it. There was almost no instruction during the lab, and the only reference material we had were the vague descriptions of what to look for from the textbook. The lab tests (every 3 weeks) consisted of several half-dissected animals, with 30 to 50 internal structures (total, not on each specimen) marked that we had to identify from memory. Spelling errors counted for zero credit.

I would have to say that I've forgotten more from Zoology than I've learned from any other class.

 

[Anghang]

College Basic Algorithms....*YUCK*