Poll: What's the Toughest College Class That You have Ever Took?

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Definitely second year Calculus. That course is brutal.

 

tax accounting.

And Ironically, my wife has a degree in accounting, a law degree, a masters in tax, an MBA, and she's a CPA. She spent several years as a litigator for the DOJ, and her only client was the IRS. Now she works as a consultant on International tax issues for the largest accounting firm in the world.

The ironic part: we have much more difficult than average personal tax issues, and I do our taxes.

 

Mines not on your list.

"Introduction to Contemporary Logic"

Oh My God!!!

I needed one math class to complete my cores. I was told I could substitute this class for the math class.

"Excellent!" I thought. "We'll talk a little logic, find out about a little critical thinking."

Oh No! This was all that "if, then" ****! It was all formulas, Xs and Ys, and MATH!!!

I failed it the first time.

I had to take it a second time. I busted my ass and was never more proud of a C in my life!

Oh, and that "17th Century Metaphysical Poetry" class was pretty brutal too.


I think I'll stick with my theater major!

 

None of those are really hard. they are all just work intensive. once you learn part of it, that information is the same in the begining and at the end of semester, i mean its logical and concistant.


the hardest class i ever took was Midevil Studies 242 "The Legend of King Arthur"

i was a history major, and this **** was HARD

imagine learning about the american revolution, ok, than 1 week later learn about the american revolution (but a completely different history) and then learn about the american revolution (a 3rd different history), and do it a 4th time and a fith, than take a test on all five versions of a simular story. and ther questions were always short answer, fill in the blank, and you needed to note the author, and name of book related to each "history"... but remember that its alll just literature, and not really history.

there were crazy questions like what was the name of king arthurs sword... in all five books, and whats the name of his spear!! he has a spear?? (its "ron" by the way.... no joke)

so basicly we had to read a book about king arthur every week, and there was a test about 5 at a time.

in total something like 20 books
and 4 tests, than a cumlative final.

the probvlem is that each book told the same story i with a completely different plot and history. so you were always trying to keep the stories seperate i your mind. argh, it still frustrates me 4 years later..

I earned the hardest C- in the history of the world, and the other 80 people in the class did about the same. i know all my friends none got better than a B+

and i thought it would be a fun, easy class

peace

 

One I'm currently taking. US-China Relations Seminar.

It's a great class. The professor is fascinating. He's absolutely brilliant, and has one of the best reputations in the field.

But he's evil ! The average grade for his class is a C-. The way he figures it, grade inflation has helped the average undergrad too much, so he's here to counteract some of it. Thanks a lot! About 10 people are lucky (or unlucky enough) to study with the guy each semester... so it doesn't really do much for the school at large.

And his papers!? Wicked! It's not an "argumentative paper" nor a "historical analysis" but rather an interpretive analysis paper discussing contributing factors to specic historical events using theory as the independent variable and theory as the dependent variable.

How does one write a paper that's neither argumentative nor historical for a political science class? Beats the hell out of me. My lowest grade on a poli sci paper before this? B+. My first in this class? C+, and I count myself lucky!

The reading? About 2300 pages for the semester. That equates to about 200 a week. Dense, dense, stuff. Ugh.

Rot in hell, you b*stard. Goodbye summa c*m laude. I'll miss you in May .

 

The second time around it had to be Parallel Computation. Ya gotta love writing apps for 4 processors all running at the same time......recursion...recursion.....recursion..... Assembly level programming wasn't much fun either...although it was kinda interesting writing boot sector viruses.

The first time around, I vaguely remember some horrid economics class called Price Theory. Not that the material was that difficult, but that the instructor sucked. He had to give a huge 25 point curve at the end just so there would be at least one A.

Speaking of instructors.....what's the worst you ever had? I had this pompous jackass that would hammer ya for putting your name in the wrong place......putting the staple in the wrong place.....numbering your pages wrong......numbering the questions wrong...etc. It's rather disheartening to spend 2 hours writing 15 or 20 pages on a test just to have 40 or 50 points taken off before the content is even graded. I actually saw people with negative test grades.......

 

Well I took Organic I last semester and the first two tests weren't too bad but then the third was pretty damn hard and then for the final, I studied more for that than anything ever. I remember it was like my other two finals were just things that got in the way of me studying for organic. But I got an A so it wasn't all bad.

Organic II hasn't been too bad so far this semester.

But the class that has sucked, TRANSPORT PHENOMENA. That class is a straight up b**** and the professor can be one too. The process for each problem is hard enough to follow and then the math once you start solving the problem can be bad. Apparently, it is the hardest chemical engineering class we will take so at least once it's over it should get better.

 

Physics...I had the worst prof for that class. He sucked, and made it impossible to do good in that class.


As for organic chemistry...I got my degree in chemistry. Organic chemistry was a piece of cake!

 

What do you do? I really liked Chem, and I'm enjoying 2nd year chem. I have a great teacher which makes it a lot better. I was just curious on what you are doing with a degree in chemistry? Do you work at a testing lab for something or what?

 

This was a long time ago. I once had illusions of working in a lab, even applied for a few jobs. But alas, the lure of easy money from the petrol-chemical industry was too great, and the chemistry has fallen by the wayside.

 

uhhh you need to add physical chemistry 2 at UT to the list. my god...our class started at 40 and shrunk to 16 the official last day to drop. and out of the 16, 1/3 failed. iv'e heard from many that it is the toughest class UT has to offer.

I got a D...it was passing

 

Well, <i>obviously</i>, he won't tell anybody, because he's making "easy money". If he told everbody here what he did, then one of us might take HIS job!

 

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I do not sleep.