Easiest class to hardest class in undergrad!

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Easiest: bio 1 (got a 100on every test including final) 🙂
Hardest: ochem 1 (first B) 🙁


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Easiest for me: Sciences and math. (I'm naturally good at science and math.)

Hardest for me: A sight-reading singing class (Under my circumstances, I didn't read music like the rest of the class at the beginning of the semester and had to learn extremely fast, and my dorm's piano was out of tune without my knowing which made things more difficult.)

I was a first generation college student and honestly didn't know that college grades mattered or that graduate school existed when I was a freshman, so I took classes that interested me regardless of how I thought I would perform.
 
Based on grades.... Gen. Chem 1&2<Bio1<cell biology< Physics 1<orgo 3 (only at my school)< Physics 2<Bio 2< orgo 1&2

I only included science classes
 
this is school dependent. at my school, physics and ochem were the hardest. easiest class i took was intro to piano
 
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Hmm... hard to say, because classes far in my memory are difficult to judge objectively.

Easiest: Calculus 1

Hardest: Waves, Optics & Quantum Physics? The professor was absolutely unbearable and made everything much more complicated than it could have been.
 
Easiest: biochem I
Hardest: tie between Orgo 1 & developmental bio

Yes my biochem class was easier than my bio 101. If you went to my school and had this professor you would understand why lol. He should've been fired. Ugh
 
Easiest: Psych
Hardest: Immunology - Though it was mostly my fault as there were just way too many molecule names/confusing plating experiments to cram
 
Godspeedyou said:
Engineer, math, and physics majors laugh at every post ITT
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About 1/3 of the posts have mentioned an upper year math, physics or engineering class (that only a math, engineering or physics major would take) as their hardest class. I can't imagine the average Bio major saying "Going to take complex analysis, yolo" 0_O
 
Easiest: Phys
Hardest: Stats. I hate math so I pretty much hate every single moment of this class.
 
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Muffinho said:
About 1/3 of the posts have mentioned an upper year math, physics or engineering class (that only a math, engineering or physics major would take) as their hardest class. I can't imagine the average Bio major saying "Going to take complex analysis, yolo" 0_O
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I posted Complex Analysis, I was a math major, and I laughed a lot of these posts.
 
meander said:
I posted Complex Analysis, I was a math major, and I laughed a lot of these posts.
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I posted Real Analysis or Topology and was a Math major. Complex Analysis is the only math class I got an A in (I never attended any of my lectures, and I didn't study either). I can hardly laugh at what someone else finds difficult. My ex-girlfriend thought her quantitative methods for sociology class was difficult while I was sitting there trying to figure out what the Heine-Borel theorem was about. Doesn't mean it wasn't difficult for her.
 
From easiest to hardest for me was: Bio 1, Bio 2, Physics 1, O. Chem 1, Physics 2, O. Chem 2, G. Chem 1, G. Chem 2.
 
Muffinho said:
I posted Real Analysis or Topology and was a Math major. Complex Analysis is the only math class I got an A in (I never attended any of my lectures, and I didn't study either). I can hardly laugh at what someone else finds difficult. My ex-girlfriend thought her quantitative methods for sociology class was difficult while I was sitting there trying to figure out what the Heine-Borel theorem was about. Doesn't mean it wasn't difficult for her.
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While you seem like an optimistic person, that's not how it works.
Thermodynamics is objectively more difficult than sociology, where you would have to intentionally study the wrong information just to get something under an A
 
Godspeedyou said:
While you seem like an optimistic person, that's not how it works.
Thermodynamics is objectively more difficult than sociology, where you would have to intentionally study the wrong information just to get something under an A
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Of course, and I never denied that. I just don't see any reason to laugh at what someone else finds difficult.
 
Doudline said:
Exactly. I think that numerous people ITT would be surprised about how much logical thinking and analysis skills a rigorous sociology, philosophy or literature class requires.
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Sometimes, too much value is based on science classes. Some (at least one) on SDN have had the sentiment that only hard science majors should get into medical school -_-. There's a lot to the humanities and social sciences that people need to explore.
 
Doudline said:
Exactly. I think that numerous people ITT would be surprised about how much logical thinking and analysis skills a rigorous sociology, philosophy or literature class requires.
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Yep! I've done quite a bit of math, and more recently some philosophy, and there's a lot of logical thinking that's common to both. It always bothers me when people make fun of "easy" majors -- difficulty is relative, and there are many science/math/engineering majors who couldn't think critically about a written work to save their lives.
 
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Easiest: Introduction to Medical Careers (Simple, informative, and necessary to graduate)
Hardest: Mathematical Logic and Proof. You take it after you take Calc II, and I was not too keen about waking up at 4 to commute to school in order to make it to class (the professor literally just read off the slides)
 
Boolean said:
Easiest: Introduction to Medical Careers (Simple, informative, and necessary to graduate)
Hardest: Mathematical Logic and Proof. You take it after you take Calc II, and I was not too keen about waking up at 4 to commute to school in order to make it to class (the professor literally just read off the slides)
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Wait, your easiest class wasn't transformations? :laugh:
 
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