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

Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:53 pm to
Posted by TxTiger82
Member since Sep 2004
33940 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:53 pm to
A statistics course called Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Course content was hard, yes, but the problem was that the professor was an a-hole and made the class terrible.
Posted by Jobin
Member since May 2009
3474 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:55 pm to
Worst - Organic Chem
Hardest - Food and Bioprocess Design 2. The final in that class took me over 4 hours
Posted by The Ostrich
Member since May 2009
2542 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:57 pm to
quote:

A statistics course called Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Course content was hard, yes, but the problem was that the professor was an a-hole and made the class terrible.

For my Econometric Statistics class the teacher was really hot so it made it eased the pain a little bit.
Posted by Cracker
in a box
Member since Nov 2009
17718 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:57 pm to
Agriculture in our lives 121
Posted by NorthEndZone
Member since Dec 2008
11335 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:32 pm to
EE 3320 Electric and Magnetic Fields

Interesting topic for a science geek, but damn it was difficult. Barely pulled out a C.
Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
7925 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 10:12 pm to
Physical Chemistry
Posted by PANTHER
Bunkie
Member since Oct 2004
2270 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 11:03 pm to
This is my answer as well. QBA was a bitch.
Posted by Duke
Twin Lakes, CO
Member since Jan 2008
35629 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 11:08 pm to
PChem is the hardest material wise, but the curve we got was massive. Avg 56 on the tests for a B in the class.

Worst class(es) were kinetics and thermo 2. That's as much because of the teacher as the subject matter.
Posted by bmy
Nashville
Member since Oct 2007
48203 posts
Posted on 12/7/17 at 11:35 pm to
Quantitative analysis or Organic Chem

Looking back on it Organic wasn't that tough.. it's just a volume problem
Posted by ElRoos
Member since Nov 2017
7216 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:06 am to
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music appreciation



Holy shite. Had this woman named Rachel Harris I believe. She would spend most of the class dancing around to the music and berating students for coming in late. Hardly ever taught anything.

She would pick and choose which slides she would put online or not. She also gave pop quizzes every day when most of the class did not show up.

The tests were in Himes. I am not good when it comes to instruments, so listening to some of the instruments, I would not be able to differentiate between a violin and a viola for example. Didn't help that the sound quality and headphones were both shite. I could get all of the definitions and shite right, but these 10 or so questions on every test left me around a 90 test average going into the final.

For the final, she told us none of the new material would be on the test. So, I study all the old shite, and what do you know, the final is all new shite. I guessed my way to a B, but I ended up with an 89.9 in the class. I had perfect attendance and went to talk with her. She refused to round up my grade. So, I ended up with a fricking B. To make matters worse, the next semester they implemented the +/- system.

Lord do I hate that woman with a burning passion
Posted by luvdatigahs
Alameda, CA
Member since Sep 2008
3015 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:09 am to
Comparative anatomy, with biochem a close second. Had a great professor for stats, which makes a world of difference. My first physics class was with a shitty professor, and made me hate physics. Second physics was with the dean of the college who was also an excellent teacher, he made everything relatable and explainable, loved the class.
Posted by Icansee4miles
Trolling the Tickfaw
Member since Jan 2007
29205 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:13 am to
PChem. Not the thermo semester the one with wavefunctions and other mysteries I never solved.

Runner-up Differential Equations.
Posted by ElRoos
Member since Nov 2017
7216 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:14 am to
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Strengths probably. frick moorthy.


Dude is literally the worst professor I have ever had at LSU. How they have employed the guy for over a decade and then some is beyond me. The dude doesn't even seem like he wants to teach when he's in the classroom. He is also the biggest arse when you talk to him in his office. I asked him for my 1st Exam once; he looked at me, laughed, coughed, then proceeded to tell me he just threw it in the trash.

Dude can SAFD. If there were ever a person I would want to lose their job, it is him.
Posted by ThatMakesSense
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Aug 2015
14811 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:14 am to
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ElRoos


Your entire post got more and more gayz as it went on.

You post like gay people speak.

frick you.
Posted by ElRoos
Member since Nov 2017
7216 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:20 am to
quote:

Your entire post got more and more gayz as it went on.

You post like gay people speak.

frick you.


Hi Rachel Harris. Frick you.
Posted by BamaChemE
Midland, TX
Member since Feb 2012
7140 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:22 am to
The hardest I ever had was a graduate inorganic chemistry class. It was mainly because of two reasons.

1) The professor changed mid semester due to complications from a planned surgery. New guy was not of the same teaching quality and pretty much threw the original syllabus out the window.

2) This tall girl with the single greatest arse I have ever seen was incredibly distracting


I still have no idea how I pulled a out a B.
Posted by tigersbh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
10287 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:34 am to
Graph theory. I was really good at math but I was lost in that class. The only reason I passed was because I memorized 17 long proofs and aced the final exam. I never studied so hard in my life.
Posted by tigersbh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
10287 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 12:37 am to
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Runner-up Differential Equations.


I took that. It was not easy, that's for sure!
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 6:22 am to
Worst
Calculus
Teacher was Indian, accent, stood one foot from board. Standing in front of whatever ge wrote and talked about. The accoustics = echo chamber. I laughed later. Waste of time to show up.

Hardest
Grad school. Thought i was veing wise guy, took class on old english, something i had handled in undergrad. Prof informs us that class is study of old Norse using a saga. Culture and language. Explains that we have to test on norse in two weks, so we can read the saga. Verbs 5 conjugations, nouns declensions, a whole vocabulary.
I did nothing else for two weeks.
B
Posted by PeterPeterP
Member since Jan 2013
781 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 6:36 am to
Econ. Econ. Econ. My brain didn’t work that way. Or maybe I’m just an idiot.
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