What class have you had the MOST difficulty with?

[Goosemaster]

And by that I do not mean the highest level you've achieved.

For me, it was Calc 1. Worst off, i was taking somewhere where they only got to Optimization problems. Forget integration and all those goodies.

I literally spend a year trying to pass it wit h no avail. It was probably because in that time I studied no more than 10hours, and wasn't really interested in it.

Once I actually mastered the "student" part out of college, I passed it without any problems.

you?

 

[Ender]

I don't study for any subject and I still ace the course... maybe it's because I'm in HS?

 

[Amorphus]

algebra 2. just because I fell asleep pretty much every day, and I did the homework in the 5 minutes before class actually started. :frown:

 

[Heisenberg]

Differential equations was pretty rough for me.

 

[Feldenak]

Calc 2. Math and I don't generally get along...I'm pretty good with application but the abstract stuff just goes right over my head.

 

[Aves]

History because I find it boring boring. I hate the reading and fact memorization.

 

[GTaudiophile]

In college? Had to have been the two Chemistry/freshmen weed-out classes I took. Our prof, Dr. Reese, had received just about every major award except for the Nobel Prize, was an advisor to Pres. Clinton on chemical warfare, and often missed lectures. He gave three exams that semester, and the class average for each was below 45. Pretty bad considering a class size of around 200.

 

[aphex]

Tie for me...

Calc 1 & Managerial Accounting....

Both made my ass bleed

 

[bleeb]

I failed Combinatorics.... that was tough... teacher was a moron.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Calc 2. Math and I don't generally get along...I'm pretty good with application but the abstract stuff just goes right over my head.

I bet. Calc 1 and all the limits and derivations boggled my mind. Somehow I finally got it. Calc 2 is no where near as hard for me. I NEED to study more so i can remember the damn stuff, but I DO get it.

Good luck with that

 

[NTB]

Advanced C++...and I don't understand why. Maybe it's the proffessor. I aced the other two C++ classes (and all my other programming classes, for that matter) without much of a problem. But this one's being a pain in the ass. I think part of it is that he wants a program written "just so". He gives us assignments to work on without having shown us any examples of how this stuff is supposed to work. Just hands us the assignment and says "have at it". This in and of itself isn't the hardest part though; if all we had to to was write the program using whatever he was trying to teach us - say, "write this program using a linked list..." I could do that. My problem is that he gives us this half-completed stuff - a .h file that he's written, and expects us to implement it exactly the way he did in order to get the program to work. We've had 3 assignments so far this semester (a 4th is due this coming tuesday), and I have yet to turn in a program written the way he wants it written. Once I've come really close; the other two times I just gave up and wrote something taht would work, whether it worked exactly how he wanted it to work or not. Fortunately, he doesn't take much off for that.

Nate

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
algebra 2. just because I fell asleep pretty much every day, and I did the homework in the 5 minutes before class actually started. :frown:

hey i'm doing the same thing and manage to have an A in that class i drop like a rock as soon as class starts (first period). hardest subject for me is english, damn essays, teacher counts off 500 points for forgetting a comma :|

 

[Crypticburn]

Nonlinear Control of Mechanical Systems. I'm not doing poorly in it, it's just my most difficult class to this point, and I'm enjoying that fact.

Crypticburn

 

[Siddhartha]

"What class have you had the MOST difficulty with?"

Undergraduate physical chemistry was the toughest because I would not do the homework. Grad school pchem was a piece of cake.

 

[FuzzyBee]

back in the day, i had the most trouble with thermodyamics and emag (and it's evil siblings - remag and threemag)

 

[SilentZero]

Organic Chemistry I and II

 

[SWScorch]

I'm taking Calc 1 right now, and I am struggling with a D. I have never ever struggled with a class before. I'm definitely not one of those brainiac smarties, but I have always been able to get As and Bs in classes without much work. I am putting so much work into Calc, and I don't get it at all. My highest grade so far was a 70. It sucks and I hate it with a passion. And of course it doesn't help that my prof is Indian and a little hard to understand sometimes.

I hate math with a passion, but Calculus takes the cake.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Calc 2. Math and I don't generally get along...I'm pretty good with application but the abstract stuff just goes right over my head.

I bet. Calc 1 and all the limits and derivations boggled my mind. Somehow I finally got it. Calc 2 is no where near as hard for me. I NEED to study more so i can remember the damn stuff, but I DO get it.

Good luck with that

Yeah, I've got Calc 2 w/ Probability next semester.

 

[yllus]

"Artificial Intelligence & Programming Logic in Computers" officially chewed me up and spit me out. I managed a C.

 

[trek]

right now, business communications

 

[dym]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
"What class have you had the MOST difficulty with?"

Undergraduate physical chemistry was the toughest because I would not do the homework. Grad school pchem was a piece of cake.

I agree...

 

[StormRider]

Most of the grad level math courses seemed too hard for me. What's weird is that I would have a really solid A in the 400 level class but then the grad level (600 or above) would be like hitting a wall or something. I kept getting B's (or dropping out) in them. The only grad level math course that I remember getting an A on was the 2nd semester Ordinary Differential Equations. I would get a really solid A in Abstract Algebra (403) and then drop out of the grad level Abstrast Algebra course(603?). Got solid A's in both semesters of 400 level Real Analysis but only got a B in the 1st semester of grad level Real Analysis. Same thing with Numerical Analysis, Complex Analysis, Scientific Computation, Probability etc.

I wish I was smarter in math. The thing that bothers me was that I was also very unhappy (maybe depressed) during this period and I will always wonder if I could have done better under different circumstances...

 

[Justin218]

I'm not liking Chem 1 all that much. Glad I only have to take one chemistry course. I am also taking calc 1, but it's not THAT bad. I kinda like it sometimes.

 

[minendo]

Organic Chem

 

[eakers]

philosophy of science.

i had to drop it because i couldn't handle it.

i'm a numbers person, not a words person and i was silly for ever trying something new.

<-- math major btw