re: Classes required for your major that you have never used

Public speaking.


Only time I have given a speech was in that class.

Southern Gothic Literature, 19th Century American Fiction, the English Novel, Shakespeare, Modern American Poetry. You name it.

Same here Petroleum, and the mechanical and electrical and civil classes were not needed. Just do petroleum stuff. Not to mention the chemistry and physics 1 and 2 I had to take. complete BS oh and Spanish as mentioned above.

Dentist here (pseudo-doctor, as my neurosurgeon brother calls me). Any of those "basic sciences", like organic chemisty (which I took) build your knowledge of the carbon-based chemical foundations of the human body and its processes and functions. Without all that pain in the arse studying much of the stuff you learned later wouldn't make as much sense, from how the body works, how drugs work and are designed, etc. etc.

So while you might not use it literally, like balancing chemical equations, it's still indispensable as a building block of things to come.

Sorry to get so serious...

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Spanish

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How are you not utilizing Spanish in the year 2026? I understand I work in construction and I'm around it all day, but I feel like most everyone has some sort of interaction with spanish speakers regularly. shite, at the very it should help you know what your housekeepers are saying about you.

Probably 2/3rds of the classes i took

It’s just a chance for the university to make money for all the extra classes we have to take

I have an Applied Physics degree, with a second degree in Management of Technology. Minors in English and Engineering.

Incredibly useful classes:

-Statics
--Dynamics
-Physics lab classes
-Mechanics
-Electrical circuits
-Financial management

Incredibly worthless classes:

-Calculus on up, particularly matrix theory, differential equations, and cyindrical/sperical integration
-thermodynamics
-Phonetics
-Cobol programming language
-Fortran programming language
-Basic programming language
-Assembly language
-Modern American Architecture (interesting to take but worthless overall)

I get that some of the classes are required in order to form a basis of understanding. But out of my two degrees, I use probably about 2% of my college material even though I work in an engineering capacity.

Ironically, one of the absolute most valuable classes I ever took was a continuing education class one summer while I was in high school. My parents suggested that I take a typewriting class, and boy has that been worth it.

Edit: I forgot to add in the Engineering drafting class I took. It taught lettering, orthogonal views, 3-d drawing, etc. That has been incredibly useful over the years. On a side note, I was in the last class at Alabama that was 100% mechanical drafting. The next year, they installed a ton of Intergraph CAD computers.

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Cobol programming language -Fortran programming language -Basic programming language -Assembly language

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No Pascal, aye?

English

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