Hardest required school class?

[ginzo]

Stats on the other hand...I was actually doing legit studying there, even bought the TI-38 calculator in hopes that I can use that to slip my way through the fast-paced summer course. A week after getting the calculator, I dropped from the class and attempted it in the fall as I was not doing so swift at all.

 

Summer classes are for easy stuff like psychology. Taking math or science during the summer is always a risk. I took a year of physics in 8 weeks in the summer and it was utterly terrible.

[cprocks22]

Last year AP European history kicked my ass, but that was mostly the teacher I believe. This year a combination of AP Calculus and AP Physics will be the death of me. AP Calc isn't particularly hard purse, just a LOT of work mixed in with a few difficult concepts. AP Physics although IS extremely difficult and IS extremely hard.

 

Kevin "Actually about to go do homework now" M.

[ctriceman]

My 2 biggest struggles were Stats (Way too many similar formulas to memorize) and Political Science.

 

 

I hated Stats. I took an online stats course last semester, I don't know if it was the book or the way the course was set up but it was absolutely terrible.

[mr2074]

Right now I am in my third semester of architecture, (It´s a 10 semester program) and the worst by far has got to be Mechanical Physics. I don´t understand a single thing of it.

But the worst is yet to come. I´ve been told that Resistance of Materials, Construction and Sturctural Engineering are hell.

 

Oh well... at least I´m in love with architecture so I don´t care.

[dammie16@vt.edu]

High School - A.P. World History, too much memorization on Tests for me!

 

College "Core classes" - Philosophy

 

College "Core Engineering" - Tie between the weed out ENGE courses and Statics, OMG I was so bad at Statics, but I did rock Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Deformable Bodies!

 

College "Mining Core Classes" - Rock Mechanics, this class is full of crazy hard math and formulas that don't really apply or have to be manipulated based on what you think is right. Unfortuntly it is the single most important Mining class we took because it has to do with keeping the roof standing in underground mines, among other things. Luckily I have the easier side being in a surface mine!

[mightypotato]

I guess the hardest course I took in university was a boundary layer climatology course.

 

It wasn't that it was difficult from a content point of view, but it was an extraordinary amount of work that was required for the assignments and term papers. It was one of those fourth year classes that's worth double the credit since it needs so much work.

[gisco]

Differential Equations....

 

Have it now for my mechanical engineering degree. It's so hard.... ugh

 

Agreed, I put a ton of time into that class and managed to pull out a B.

[no_brain_er]

Well, they're not technically required, but AP classes are pretty tough. I'm taking AP Lit/Comp and AP Environmental Science this year; APES is super-easy, but APLit is a totally different story. It's the only class I'm failing right now, and we just checked out a Faulkner book today during class.

I absolutely despise Faulkner.

 

Aside from AP stuff, I'd say the hardest required class (at least for me) was either Algebra 2 or Chemistry. I just had a bad teacher in Algebra 2, but Chemistry had all those complicated formulas, memorizing elements, and everything else people have said before me. Well, I had a bad teacher for that class too.

[dragoncoaster1292]

Trigonometry It's the absolute WORST

[RaptorBoyASU]

Hardest class for me was Applied Complex Analysis. Basically Calculus with imaginary numbers. Everything goes from 3-D to 4-D, and I didn't have the math background to understand everything going on.

 

Somehow I managed to pull a C even though I was completely lost in the final.

[ntweisen]

I second the differential equations class for mechanical engineering. Not fun at all for me.

[Homer]

In college, the hardest courses for me always came from really crappy teachers. Case in point, Environmental Science and American Government.

 

Environmental Science had a hard term paper where the teacher was absolutely nuts about sources, had the "You must believe my opinion or you fail" mentality, and it reflected in his tests too.

 

American Government because I had "Canadian Colonel Sanders" as my teacher. He's like 80, incoherent, and ends every sentence with "eh?" Also, he skips some things in his lectures and aren't in the textbook, but in the tests.

 

I struggled with Statistics too, but I admit I kinda did "meh" on that course anyways.

[DiSab]

had the "You must believe my opinion or you fail" mentality, and it reflected in his tests too.

 

Those teachers are the absolute worst. I had one over the summer here at UD - one that some of you may have heard of. Larry Schweikart. I hated the man. I dropped his class after 2 classes because I absolutely could not stand his ultra-uber-conservative views. If you wrote a paper or exam essay from a viewpoint that conflicts with the conservatives, you failed. No questions asked. And he was proud that he was named the #2 most dangerous conservative in history - only disappointed that he wasn't named #1. And he's been on Fox News multiple times - you know something's wrong with your life when you're a regular on Fox News. I seriously wanted to clock the man when I was in his class - and there's not much that gets me this riled up.