I graduated with CS degree (it's probably not that hard to tell from my user name) I would have to say the hardest CS class was Intro. to Theory of Computation. However, I found my Physics II class (basically electromagnetism) to be the hardest class. I think in some cases how hard the class is very much dependent on what professor you have had.
Microbiology. All those sleepless nights and that 12 page research paper that gave me a horrible fever....I'm just glad I still passed with an A.
Really? I took Hindi 501 (that's right, 5 credit hours) at my school and aced it. Major GPA booster right there. I thought it was pretty easy, just a crap load of work to do. You have to bust your tail to get an A. We learned the entire alphabet, how to write and read words and put together coherent sentences. It was easy because the dialogue crap wasn't really a part of this particular class. Then again, the fact that I already knew a little Bengali helped, since there are a ton of similarities between the two languages.
Microeconomics for me. Just had my Finals for it and I'm pretty sure I failed it. Hope I'll still pass the course though. Guess I'm just not much of an economic mastermind.
Circuits FTW. At the start of the class, the prof told us to look to our left and our right, because one of those two people would not be there at the end of the semester. He was right. Can't complain. Weed-out classes are a necessary evil, especially in majors like EE. If you're going to become an EE, you better mean it.
Pretty accurate list of the crappier EE faculty members. They didn't have the 306 class when I was there (graduated in '02), but those people that had Patt said he was a pompous *******. EE312 - that class freaking blew. I never really learned how to code C++ because Wagner sucked so damn bad. The fact that the class was held in Burdine at 8AM made it even worse. I thinked I stopped going after the 1st week, but luckily passed the class with a C since I memorized some key chunks of code for the exams. Cardwell had really good teacher ratings from what I recall -> I had him for 338k (I guess now 338 and 338k have been combined into 438). I almost got a B, but bombed the final and finished with a C. That was a pattern. EE316 was a crazy class, and I actually finished with an A. It was just stressful as hell trying to squeeze out regrades from the TA's and making sure you got the right exam forms that were the easier versions. Loved watching those old videos from the early 80's with Dr. Roth.
P-Chem made organic chemistry seem like basic math. For me, some of organic chemistry was intuitive and made sense. But I had zero instincts for P-Chem. Zilch! It was hard every step of the way, like trying to ice skate on rough, dry concrete. Every class and exam was agonizing. Is there anyone here who did NOT find P-Chem particularly difficult (as compared to other classes)? If so, do people think you are weird? Were you born on Earth? I only want human beings to answer; no aliens please.
As of right now, O-Chem is the hardest. The most annoying has to be Intro to Cultural Anthropology. That class is a joke but the prof made it out to be freaking diff eq or something. Pulled out with an 'A' thankfully but man, so much for the guaranteed blowoff that was all I hear about for that class. We could be brothers.
It all depends on where your strength is. For most people, classes outside major, like GE requirement, are tough. I was CS major and had to take music history, Asian art survey, women study, etc. I remember I had to write a 5 page paper about a Japanese tea pot. The level of fussiness, IMO, of that Asian art survey class is like analyzing the sound of a fart. Well, I breezed through Calc stuff, all As. Breezed through prob&stats, CS stuff of course, EE too, that quantum physics someone mentioned doesn't scare me. I didn't even bother to go to the physics classes, I pretty much aced it on my own. So it really depends. Later in my life, I had MS in CS and law school, those were a little harder.
I did a double major of math\computer science. I took an upper level math class called Real Analysis that kicked my butt. It was stuff like proving derivates and integrals. I nearly dropped my math major 32+ hours in.
I was a business major but on the pre-med track. I got a B in Organic Chemistry 1 and an A in Organic Chemistry 2. I thought the General Chemistry's were harder, but that is probably b/c I didn't have the proper study methods at the time in my first few years of college.
there's a way to teach organic chemistry without the brute memorization, you just have to do a lot of practice problems and eventually you'll see a pattern...it starts becoming intuitive and repetitive after a while. luckily i had a professor who was intent on teaching organic chemistry in this way.
I'm a CS guy that went with the math sequence. Real Analysis killed me. The class had some of the most abstract proofs I've ever seen. From that semester on, I have learned to give props to math majors.
Thats more of an upper level course. O chem was 2nd year chem. I have to take it next year. I figure its going to rip me up a new *******
lol I read that title and O chem was the first thing to pop in my head. Changed the course of my life. I was on my way to being a doctor (my eldest two brothers are) and after I took that class I dropped out.
