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What was your hardest non science class, DAMN I'm so pissed off right now I made all A's in my math and science and in my summer class I got F""""ing screwed with a B in American Governement 😡
 
B&W photography. Seriously. Back before everything was digital you had to fumble around in the dark and risk ruining countless roles of film or pay out the bunghole to have someone else develop it.
 
philosophy and star trek (i though it would be easy then we started talking about the shape of spacetime and light speed momentum and their implications for time travel)
 
Political Philosophy.....who was i kidding when i enrolled in a senior level philosophy class. EVERYTHING went over my head. i worked my butt off and got an A, but man, that class hurt my brain.
 
Screwed with a B? You, my friend, need to get out more often. *points and :laugh: *
 
life on other world (social sci credit)
the TAs who marked our essays had no bio-background and penalized us for talking too much bio when we wrote about "life"
i know it was my fault, but it still hurt
 
dapmp91 said:
What was your hardest non science class, DAMN I'm so pissed off right now I made all A's in my math and science and in my summer class I got F""""ing screwed with a B in American Governement 😡
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way to make everyone else feel small...good job though
 
I required freshman course called "Exploring the Human Experience." It was like a philosophy/history/english/sociology class. Miserable.
 
College writing. They had an attendence policy, per university requirement. 8 AM rolls around a little too early some days.
 
Advanced Accounting Theory :barf:

One mean class...... Organic had nothing on that class, or at least they guy teaching it.
 
Poetry...Everything meant something that it doesn't say. WTF
 
Natural Deductive Logic; definately my hardest non-science course.
 
Topics in Macroeconomic Theory (upper div Econ class)... it had more calculus than I would ever care to see outside of a calculus class.. :scared:
 
PolarBear21 said:
Topics in Macroeconomic Theory (upper div Econ class)... it had more calculus than I would ever care to see outside of a calculus class.. :scared:
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stupid Econ for me too.. stupid stupid econ.....
 
intro to philosophy.
something about doing assigned reading or going to class did not sit well with me
 
I don't really think any of my classes were really hard, they were just at different levels of time consuming. History this summer was probably the worst; who expects you to read a chapter every two days plus a separate book once a week.<- tah gay.
 
Religions of India...impossible essay tests
 
Have I ever mentioned how hard French 4 was 🙂
(ANS. yes Dave, this is about the 50th time you've mentioned it.) Seriously glad they had a course where you just had to be able to read.(For those that care yes it's a requirement and no, I was never going to pass that regular version.)
 
Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Game theory
 
Some Sociology course about current US foreign policy... but it was basically a Bush bash-a-thon sprinkled with Noam Chomsky literature in a class full of predominantly far-left students.

So here I was... a moderate, perhaps even a conservative relative to everyone else who had to endure a semester of classes based on one thing: how all of the problems in the world stem from America's screwing of third-world nations. I mean, I, too, disagree with some of the things our government's been doing the last decade or so, but jeez... it just felt like Woodstock in there every Tuesday and Thursday.

Still, it was an enlightening class that offered a novel perspective on many things... whether it is right or even sane, I shall not comment upon.
 
xx216xx said:
I don't really think any of my classes were really hard, they were just at different levels of time consuming. History this summer was probably the worst; who expects you to read a chapter every two days plus a separate book once a week.<- tah gay.
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Oh man! I used to teach history to undergrads and I couldn't believe the whining about the reading assignments. As a history grad student I was reading literally 2,000+ pages a week. I made a really bad teacher because I just couldn't relate to how much the average person dislikes history. Reading is good for you!
 
blarrgh said:
Some Sociology course about current US foreign policy... but it was basically a Bush bash-a-thon sprinkled with Noam Chomsky literature in a class full of predominantly far-left students.

So here I was... a moderate, perhaps even a conservative relative to everyone else who had to endure a semester of classes based on one thing: how all of the problems in the world stem from America's screwing of third-world nations. I mean, I, too, disagree with some of the things our government's been doing the last decade or so, but jeez... it just felt like Woodstock in there every Tuesday and Thursday.

Still, it was an enlightening class that offered a novel perspective on many things... whether it is right or even sane, I shall not comment upon.
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regardless of politics, Noam Chomsky is the greatest public intellectual of our time and has been more often quoted than anyone else, including the Bible. Noam Chomksy could kick Chuck Norris's butt anyday just by citing a newspaper article from an obscure paper in Tibet.
 
I had a hard time with "Western Civilization" not because of the reading but because I wasn't good at writing the types of essays/papers that you need to for History. I still did okay though (B) but I know I WASTED a LOT of time spinning my wheels because I didn't know what to do.
 
World religions and Business.
 
Elementary & Chorale Conducting. Uggh. Not only was the prof AWFUL, that MWF 8:00 wasn't fun either, plus i have absolutely NO interest.
Worked my A** off for an A the second time around, but in Elem I was stuck with a B.

Sadly my supposed-to-be hard classes are a piece of cake, it was THESE that gave me a hernia.
 
Milton.

And, yes, I do believe it was my favorite class of all my undergraduate courses.

😍 Milton, but I wish every person who claims that non-science classes are easy could have had this professor!!
 
Intro to Philosophy. Only class I got a W in - it was being taught by a graduate student, and I think he just wanted to prove that he could give everyone C's. Because that's what everybody was getting when I left... 🙁
 
Greek Civilization. Not because of the material but because the guy was an unbelievable prick. He actively mocked students in class. Every day.

Hardest material wise was a Shakespeare class.
 
Intellectual Traditions of the Ancient World. A English/Philosophy combo with a professor who was way too enthusiastic about Plato.
 
My hardest, but favorite non-science, legal environment of business.
 
I gotta admit that I chuckled a little reading this thread - I teach Introduction to Philosophy (and others).

My worst non-science was either Ancient Greek or Japanese 2 (at Georgetown - the former was taken out of curiousity, but taught by the chair of the Classics department, the latter was taught by native speakers who had us memorizing hirigana the first week, katakana by week three, and kanji by week seven in Japanese 1).
 
Principles of Finiance should be an easy class but the guy who taught it was an absolute idiot. You could verbatum spit out his words on the short answer questions and get 3/10 on the question and he wouldn't ever tell you why it was wrong, because he didn't know.

I was glowing for two days when I found he he was fired last year because he couldn't get published (big shocker).
 
Hmmm...probably Game Theory...it was extremely cool but the final exam was ridiculous.
 
dapmp91 said:
What was your hardest non science class, DAMN I'm so pissed off right now I made all A's in my math and science and in my summer class I got F""""ing screwed with a B in American Governement 😡
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PoliSci type classes were my easiest, well not easy, but I had a lot of fun so it seemed easy. European historical literature, now that was hard. After a while I didn't care and started being really free with what I thought and said in section.
 
Aesthetics. You'd think that, the material being SOMEWHAT SUBJECTIVE, a well-supported defense of my particular take on the issues would have been enough to secure an A. Apparently, however, top marks went only to those folks who submitted well-supported defenses of the PROFESSOR'S particular take on said issues. 😡

Oh, well--when I saw the way the cookie was crumbling, I petitioned for "PDF" status (meaning that any grade A-C would go on my transcript as "pass") and saved my GPA from being "B"-smirched. 😛
 
Theology Foundations: Religious Experience, Tradition, and Committment. Horrible, horrible, horrible. I couldn't stand the "textbook," which was just a bunch of rambles.
 
Intro to Middle Eastern History. It was a 100 level course at Penn State, but I worked as much for this class as a 400 level engineering class 😱
 
"Death and Memory in America", my final history thesis seminar. Great class, really hard though.
 
MiesVanDerMom said:
Oh man! I used to teach history to undergrads and I couldn't believe the whining about the reading assignments. As a history grad student I was reading literally 2,000+ pages a week. I made a really bad teacher because I just couldn't relate to how much the average person dislikes history. Reading is good for you!
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I enjoy reading (I read about 2000 pages just for my own amusement). But then again, I love history and if the average career path for a history major didn't involve the phrase "Hi, my name is Steve and I have a PhD in European history and I'll be your waiter tonight" I'd have majored in it. :laugh:
 
personally, the only way that i found non-science classes to ever be hard was if they tried to kill you with volume, not substance. that means med school will be really fun since medschool=volume+substance.
 
Why is it that anything not involving genetics, chemical reactions or things in changing states of motion is assumed to lack substance? I'm sorry but I've yet to come across any science class that is as challenging as linguistics.
 
I think the hardest non-science class I took was simple composition I. I was just not a good writer, I don't know that I am yet a "good" writer either. Our classes were very discussion oriented which I really liked, and I enjoyed the readings I just had trouble putting my thoughts on paper.
 
DropkickMurphy said:
Why is it that anything not involving genetics, chemical reactions or things in changing states of motion is assumed to lack substance? I'm sorry but I've yet to come across any science class that is as challenging as linguistics.
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I agree.

It also depends on how you define hard. If you define hard as most difficult to understand, then I think Philosophy or Linguistics are both pretty darn hard. If you define hard as getting an A in the class, then something like ochem takes the cake.
 
DropkickMurphy said:
Why is it that anything not involving genetics, chemical reactions or things in changing states of motion is assumed to lack substance? I'm sorry but I've yet to come across any science class that is as challenging as linguistics.
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Then you just haven't taken the right ones. I have had math classes where it takes almost an entire semster to understand just 3-5 pages of a text book.
 
novawildcat said:
Then you just haven't taken the right ones. I have had math classes where it takes almost an entire semster to understand just 3-5 pages of a text book.
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It's late, I'm bored, and I'm curious. How many linguistics classes have you taken?
 
MollyMalone said:
It's late, I'm bored, and I'm curious. How many linguistics classes have you taken?
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0. btw how many classes have you taken on infinite dimensional functional analysis?
 
Contemporary Literary Theory
 
1. History - memorizing dates and events don't go down well with me. I honestly can't say I care about something that happened in 1321...I just want to get into med school in 2007.

2. Psychology - I got pissed off by Freud's stupid theories. He sounded so perverted and ridiculous that my disgust of him unfortunately transfered over to the entire course. I know it's a shame, I know.
 
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