re: What was the worst, hardest class you had in college?

Linear Circuit Analysis with Dr. Aravena

I didn’t get pass/drop/fail stats for my semester, but the semester before I took it, 50% dropped, and 50% of the remaining people failed.

I squeaked out a B, and my recollection now is I didn’t understand any of it. The curve was astronomical.

2nd on the list was electronics with Dr. Ho.

Probably physics for me too. I sucked at that class. I’m not a “math” person, on the other hand I really liked statistics because I could see the logical real world application of stats. I’m never going to use physics or calculus, so I basically have no motivation to learn it.

Organic Chem Lab at LSU.

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Econometrics

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Econometrics wasn't bad at all to me. I took all three to complete the concentration. I had heard horror stories about Economic Forecasting from friends. They said the Professor (Dr. Hillenbrand) would go crazy writing formulas on the board but I really enjoyed the class. I had a rough understanding of the material but near the end of the semester everything clicked. Wound up easily getting an A.

Hardest classes IMO were Money and Banking (Dr. Stahl) and Intermediate Microeconomics (Dr. Sarangi)

I didn't take hard classes in college. Either that, or I was just better at them than those in my class.

But I was a creative writing major, so it's really a matter of whether you have any talent versus whether you can understand complex equations and shite like so many engineers have to deal with.

Probably the upper level Latins were my hardest. I guess.

Strengths or Dynamics. Suresh Moorthy would rape you on the final.

for some reason strengths and dynamics came easy to me, b in strengths and A in dynamics (only class that summer though)

Hardest:

Undergrad Diffy Qs

Law School Agency & Partnership mainly due to the prof

Worst:

Undergrad Organic Chem because it was the MD wannabe weed out class it required more time than any of my other classes

Law School Admiralty because I could care less about it

Being old I was fortunate to go to college in a era when 99% of the engineering, math, chemistry, physics professors and graduate TAs were born in America, and spoke English as a first language, that was probably a bonus of a full letter grade.