Wow, I second that. I had Professor Morrison for my human situation class and it was BRUTAL. Your grade is based on essays alone after two full semesters of human situation I never figured out what they wanted in those essays. That class ended up being my worst grade of all 4 years of my undergraduate even while double majoring.
Organic Chemistry was probably the hardest, but it wasn't really that bad. I see patterns pretty well and it made sense to me. I couldn't understand why others struggled so mightily with it.
Thank you, it had to be said. I love Ochem, and I don't understand why people think it's back breaking, if you do the work, it's really easy.
I feel ya bro. People wont understand what a hard class is until they take P-chem. I have spoken to numerous chemistry and biology professors, and they have all told me that P-chem is the hardest undergrad class offered at any university.
No kidding. The whole P-Chem experience was brutal. Other close runners-up include: Engineering Computation, Circuits, and Waves and Optics (stuff I took or attempted before realizing that 1) it was impossible, and 2) it wasn't even interesting, and switched to chemistry). When I teach O-Chem, I try to be gentle with it, and don't require rote memorization of mechanisms. (of course, I usually do this at the community college level; I'm not liking the atmosphere at universities where the teachers are busy competing with each other to show off while most students are studying their tails off but not truly learning a thing) Like someone said above, notice the patterns. Which atom is going to "want" the electrons more... what types of bonds are made to be broken...
Statistics or Thermodynamics....it's a combo of hating the material and not understanding some of the more complicated parts of it
General Chemistry I and II. Just very difficult. Chemistry was a tough concept to wrap my head around. High school chemistry was tough too. A&P I and II were also fairly difficult.
I actually found the Human Situation to be relatively easy, although I didn't care much for having to read all those books (Herodotus' History might be the worst piece of written literature in the history of mankind; attempting to actually get interested in it is like smashing your head against stucco).
ADVANCED PHYSICS LEVEL C I had dudes in Columbia who looked like this... and this... I kid you not. Half of the class was from Europe. They really know their physics there. I ended up getting a C dumbSAGE
Partial Differential Equations. Didn't help that my prof was bad, but I just never understood how we could spend so much time on equations that don't really have solutions. ODE was so easy by comparison. And I 2nd the mention of statistical/thermal. Very disjointed, complex material, usually.
I went to the University of Arizona. I didn't mean to imply that EE is an easy major. I just think that how difficult a major is depends entirely on the person. EE and physics were much easier majors for me than Spanish would have been, for example.
