Drivers Eduation my Freshman year in HS.
Not hard...but the teacher was a douchebag.
She insisted that we highlight stuff in the driving manual and she graded on it. I apparently wasn't highlighting enough stuff for her as she said I needed to highlight more things that were important. So I spent one day in class and highlighted the entire book. I never liked highlighting shit. It never did me any good. Waste of my time. But no! We had to highlight!!!
The same teacher I had for typing skills which was a requirement. I could already type about 50WPM at that point so again, waste of my time.
We had to use an ancient IBM PS/2 system with old software.
We had to type the same line over and over and over again.
I was the only one in the class that figured out that the program actually did have a copy and paste function.
Not hard...but the teacher was a douchebag.
She insisted that we highlight stuff in the driving manual and she graded on it. I apparently wasn't highlighting enough stuff for her as she said I needed to highlight more things that were important. So I spent one day in class and highlighted the entire book. I never liked highlighting shit. It never did me any good. Waste of my time. But no! We had to highlight!!!
The same teacher I had for typing skills which was a requirement. I could already type about 50WPM at that point so again, waste of my time.
We had to use an ancient IBM PS/2 system with old software.
We had to type the same line over and over and over again.
I was the only one in the class that figured out that the program actually did have a copy and paste function.
I really liked Geometry. I took that my Freshman year. Enjoyed it and did well. I didn't like Algebra nearly as much.
Intro to American Politics. I'd rather stab my eyes out with a rusty spoon then sit through another one of those 90 minute lectures.
Assembler Mainframe programming.
I had to drop it
8 hours just to do an assignment for me and I never could finish them.
I had to drop it
8 hours just to do an assignment for me and I never could finish them.
high school biology... our teacher was mostly deaf, so when he'd ask questions it didn't matter what we'd say and he would tell us the correct answer (well, sometimes... occasionally he was off too). The test answer key was too small for him to read, so he would wait for me to finish my test to correct the others. He had a difficult time pronouncing the majority of, well, he had difficulty pronouncing anything with more than one syllable. The school had purchased new textbooks a year or two before, but he was still using his notes and tests and worksheet questions from when he first started teaching in the early 80s.
worst class I ever took was a seminar titled Native Americans in Modern Pennsylvania during my senior year of college.
I needed a humanities seminar in order to graduate and it was the only one being offered during the fall before my last semester. it wasn't difficult perse, just soooooooooooo boring and the professor was a real d-bag.
in terms of sheer difficulty, my honors bio class during sophomore year of college really pushed me the most. it also helped me learn some completely different ways of learning, though, which really helped in later years of college. there was no text book or lab manual for the class and the prof would not allow note taking or lecture recording. it was rough, but it forces you to pay attention, ask questions, and make sure you're really understanding what's being taught instead of just writing down as many notes as possible and hoping to cram it all back in the night before the final. after that class, I never had to take a ton of notes or do any cramming again. my profs always looked at me weird when I sat in classes and didn't take any notes whatsoever, but they'd usually stfu after the first exam
I needed a humanities seminar in order to graduate and it was the only one being offered during the fall before my last semester. it wasn't difficult perse, just soooooooooooo boring and the professor was a real d-bag.
in terms of sheer difficulty, my honors bio class during sophomore year of college really pushed me the most. it also helped me learn some completely different ways of learning, though, which really helped in later years of college. there was no text book or lab manual for the class and the prof would not allow note taking or lecture recording. it was rough, but it forces you to pay attention, ask questions, and make sure you're really understanding what's being taught instead of just writing down as many notes as possible and hoping to cram it all back in the night before the final. after that class, I never had to take a ton of notes or do any cramming again. my profs always looked at me weird when I sat in classes and didn't take any notes whatsoever, but they'd usually stfu after the first exam
First year Calculus II. The crap was insane and taught by a math professor for engineers. Think the final exam average was 40% and a large portion of people failed. I JUST slid by. That furthered by extreme hate for pure math. Funny thing is that not one engineering course in the 2nd, 3rd and so far 4th year has used anything beyond stuff we learned in highschool and maybe the first month or so of first year college material.
Originally posted by: TecHNooB
No way.. what school do you go to? My second year classes are already using diff eq. Most engineers are still taking multivariable calculus. Luckily, I'm taking diff eq
Most people at my school find Calc 3(multivariable calculus) easier.
GagHalfrunt
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Apparently OP's "worse" class was English.
For me:
Hardest: Organic chemistry.
Worst: 7th grade science. Catholic school taught by a nun whose idea of science was "god created everything. The end".
For me:
Hardest: Organic chemistry.
Worst: 7th grade science. Catholic school taught by a nun whose idea of science was "god created everything. The end".
Calc 2 was ok for me because my teacher allowed the use of the ti-89 on every test
Haven't tried calc 3 and don't plan on it since I'm switching from an engineering major to accounting.Design of Machine Elements. Was failing until the final and somehow pulled off a C. That class was rough.
minendo
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Food Microbiology. No tests. Grade was based solely on 1 project, class participation, and weekly homework. The weekly homeworks were 1 question (4-5 parts) which would take at least 8 hours of time with no true answer.
By far the worst class I took, but it is also the class I learned the most from.
By far the worst class I took, but it is also the class I learned the most from.
schneiderguy
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geometry. I could never understand it and barely passed with a C-. I've gotten an A in all of my math classes since then, im in Calculus right now
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