i took 2 graduate level computer science classes one quarter while working full-time.
either one by itself would've been a bear.
either one by itself would've been a bear.
Physiological Foundations for Biomedical Engineers at Johns Hopkins....
that was ridiculus...the for things like the HW...they would be about 4 or 5 questions...at least 10 of us would get together to do it and we would work for 12+ hours straight and still only have like 3 of them done...
that class was ridiculusly hard
cell bio was 1 month of that class...biochem 1 month...then we got to the hard stuff
that was ridiculus...the for things like the HW...they would be about 4 or 5 questions...at least 10 of us would get together to do it and we would work for 12+ hours straight and still only have like 3 of them done...
that class was ridiculusly hard
cell bio was 1 month of that class...biochem 1 month...then we got to the hard stuff
Me too.. Taking calc 3 for fourth term this summer.. passed it first time with a D, withdrew second time, failed third time (car wreck).. now, if I don't get an A in this course, I'm going to pull out my brain and give it to someone else.
Riiiiight, abstract algebra and real analysis weren't hard. Sure, topology at an undergrad level is relatively easy, but whoever you are, the other two are not easy (I knew some truly brilliant folks and college and they had to work in those classes).
yllus
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Artificial Intelligence in Comp. Sci. :Q Although I ended up aceing the final due to pretty much a month of rehashing and studying, the sheer diversity of topics in a programming language completely new to me was killer. One minute problem solving with constraints, the next natural language understanding, then assumptive reasoning...
It didn't help that the professor of the course pronounced words like "back-chaining" as "purchini".
It didn't help that the professor of the course pronounced words like "back-chaining" as "purchini".
I found those easy as well - some people just have the knack for proof writing, and if they do they don't really struggle. I had some difficulty in graduate level abstract algebra, but that was because I had to spend all my time studying category theory.
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My last 2 years of high school, I slacked off big time and skipped classes all the time. I still managed to keep at least a B average. When I first started college, I also skipped a lot of classes and managed to keep A's and B's.
Calculus was the first class I took that I would consider hard. The first two times I took it, I skipped a lot and realized a couple weeks in that I was lost, so dropped the class. The third time, I went to every class and did the homework and suddenly I just "got it". After that, it seemed pretty easy.
I actually really enjoyed Organic Chem and found it to be pretty easy. It did require a good amount of studying and memorization though.
Physical Chemistry was much harder, extremely boring, and was the reason I switched majors.
Discrete Structures for Computer Science was the hardest math class I have ever taken. It's all so theoretical and is so vastly different than any other math class I had taken. No caculators required because there are basically no numbers involved. It's more just logic theory.
Oracle DBA was hard only because there were so many details to remember.
Calculus was the first class I took that I would consider hard. The first two times I took it, I skipped a lot and realized a couple weeks in that I was lost, so dropped the class. The third time, I went to every class and did the homework and suddenly I just "got it". After that, it seemed pretty easy.
I actually really enjoyed Organic Chem and found it to be pretty easy. It did require a good amount of studying and memorization though.
Physical Chemistry was much harder, extremely boring, and was the reason I switched majors.
Discrete Structures for Computer Science was the hardest math class I have ever taken. It's all so theoretical and is so vastly different than any other math class I had taken. No caculators required because there are basically no numbers involved. It's more just logic theory.
Oracle DBA was hard only because there were so many details to remember.
bahahahaha, if you think Discrete Math was hard just wait till you get to Turing Machine(Deterministic and Non-Deterministic)
oh god that was just pure hell. Calc is simple, look for patern apply formula....repeat
oh god that was just pure hell. Calc is simple, look for patern apply formula....repeat
analytical chem (we called it anal chem).. it wasn't that hard but just soooo much work.
[i dropped it half way through and switched majors after a tiny nervous breakdown]
[i dropped it half way through and switched majors after a tiny nervous breakdown]
General Chemistry is probably the hardest class I ever took..... probably because no one teaches anything and then we were tested on random stuff.
hardest I've taken: Compiler Construction. (same as Compiler Design, I'm sure)
as for Discrete, I didn't find it very difficult, although if you got into the proofs, induction, etc, I could see why if you're not into math. At my college that's a separate class, Math Thought, which was significantly more challenging.
as for Discrete, I didn't find it very difficult, although if you got into the proofs, induction, etc, I could see why if you're not into math. At my college that's a separate class, Math Thought, which was significantly more challenging.
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