re: Hardest and most interesting class you took in college

Mechanical properties of biological materials was both a hard class and a fun class

Physics 2: electricity just doesn’t make sense to me. I was really good at circuits (actually aced the class and that portion of this class) but the lectures before and after this section make my head hurt a lot.

Statistics was also a very fun, interesting class

Most interesting:
Germany from 1914 to 1945

Hardest: Organic Chem lab. Took me three tries to pass

Most interesting was probably Calc because my teacher was a badass. If you're reading this Kevin Zito, you're the man.

A google search tells me he is teaching at ULL now

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Physics 2: electricity just doesn’t make sense to me. I was really good at circuits (actually aced the class and that portion of this class) but the lectures before and after this section make my head hurt a lot.

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Just about everybody coming out of the Phys 2 Electricity test thought they bombed it.
But by finals it all made since. I guess it just need time to sink in.

History of the world since 1960 at LSU. I took as a history elective having no fricking clue. The dude that taught it was INTENSE.... talking briefed for the pentagon during Vietnam, bragged about having briefly dated the "black widow" aka a woman who had the launch codes. Easily the hardest class I took at LSU as this fricker would start robotically rattling off stories and dates without writing shite on the board and you had to remember EVERY damn word of it. Just a mid-term and final.....all blue book essay. BUT The stories that crazy baw had were incredible. It whipped my arse but I couldn't drop it...I couldn't look away... every class was a fricking 1.5 hour thrill ride

ETA: Professor was Ben Martin. Passing that class was a serious badge of honor around campus. I still remember walking in after the midterm and the class had maybe 40% of what it had day of the midterm. He looks around chuckles and goes...geee..where is everyone...I thought I had more students that this...and grins

Hardest - Microeconomics because that is hard to learn as a freshman and being stoned. Fortunately my school allowed you to take it again for no credit but changed the grade. By my junior year, I grew out of the being stoned 24/7 phase and got a B so maybe it wasn’t that hard.

Most interesting - History of WWII. I absolutely loved that class. One assignment was to interview a WWII veteran and I got to interview my grandfather. Wrote a 15 page paper on his experiences and loved every minute of writing that paper. Wish I could find a copy of it today. I still have my old college laptop but no battery cord so I can’t pull up a lot of stuff from there. Probably a good thing though.

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Hardest: Climatology. Brutal combination of difficult math and boring subject matter. The professor was also kinda dry and boring at times. He was a nice guy, just not good at keeping attention.

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I’m in that right now. You take that back about my only MAGA AF professor.

How is Climatology hard? I was expecting it to be a blow off class. Then again I am super smart.

I was a communications major so there really wasn’t any “hard” classes.

I did have one comm teacher who so wanted to liberally indoctrinate the class and our answers according to her opinions and not the text book. that was brutal. Principles of Persuasion. After we got tests back, we’d bring up the book and show how we answered correctly but then she’d say “well if you remember this incredibly ambiguous or subjective thing I said in one of my lectures…”

We’d get together as a class and analyze all our class notes to try and figure out what she wanted us to say and not what the actual answers were. Only 2.0 I ever got in college.

We roasted her on the evaluation and put in complaints to the Dept Chair. She got put on probation and then fired the next semester. I do t delight in others’ misery but she was a terrible teacher and terrible person to be honest.

Most interesting was history of rock and roll and government/history. I had people that genuinely loved the content and that made it a lot more interesting.

University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point; was a Chemistry major, but ended up with an Accounting Degree

Hardest: Anatomy. The fat frick professor made it a point of pride that this class was the hardest 3 credit course on campus. It was a requirement for a lot of majors, but he said he made it extra tough due to pre-med and pre-dental students needing to take it. My only hope is that fat arse is long dead

Most interesting: Wilderness Firefighting. Learned a bunch of cool stuff about fighting fires and the exam was going out to a firefighting training facility and putting out a "wildfire" (basically a giant bonfire).