Just curious to see how everyone feels about particular classes!
Favorite, least favorite, easiest, and hardest class- and why?
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Wind Symphony: Because it's the only thing that isn't mind fking me.
Human Genetics: Grad level gen bio with the addition of "Oi! Humans have genes too!"
Health: 'Cause it's health...
Ochem II: Too many damn reactions. Why do I need them? I know all the concepts but the reactions....my lord.
Human Genetics: Grad level gen bio with the addition of "Oi! Humans have genes too!"
Health: 'Cause it's health...
Ochem II: Too many damn reactions. Why do I need them? I know all the concepts but the reactions....my lord.
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Favorite- Advanced Differential Equations. Destroyed that class, made a 129 after curves and extra credit. Yes, 129. Not a typo haha. I loved it because it was highly logical, it was fun, it involved critical thinking, and if you were good enough at it and creative enough, you had multiple ways of getting an answer. A lot of differential equations are used in biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering, so I felt like I was standing in the middle of all the sciences. I even solved equations describing GLUT uniporter glucose uptake 😀
Least Favorite- My Experimental Methods/Design class. Professor didn't know her content, was an adjunct. I'm appalled at how she got her PhD. Her HW had nothing to do with her notes/the book assigned, so I had to end up buying random materials science books, linear systems books, and fluid dynamics books to extract the content needed to actually pursue the HW.
Easiest- Tie between Advanced Differential Equations and Physics II for Engineers. Honestly easier than the Art Appreciation class that I took. I've been taking hardware apart and making my own computers since I was like 6, so lab was a joke. Lecture was taught by a really gifted professor, explained the content well. His tests weren't hard, and it was his last semester before retiring. I had Cal III, C Programming, and Diff EQ before, so I found easier ways to do the problems outside of the mathematical analysis he taught, and he'd give me extra credit for doing it "the way they do it at Fermilab".
Hardest- Cell Physiology. Taught by an MD-PhD who thought we were all in medical school. She lived in the Communist USSR and had a heart of ice. She went fast, had unrelated tests, 100% applied content, memorizing the notes would literally probably get you a 0, because nothing was discrete. She was a master at psychologically demeaning students. It was not only academically hard, but psychologically. She found a way to make you scared no matter how mentally tough you were. I learned the most in there though, and I think after that, I'm more prepped for medical school. I had to bust my rear off. Took off from work, broke up with a gf, didn't talk to friends, because I really wanted an A. I had to work my way up from a D to a 91 by the end of the semester.
Least Favorite- My Experimental Methods/Design class. Professor didn't know her content, was an adjunct. I'm appalled at how she got her PhD. Her HW had nothing to do with her notes/the book assigned, so I had to end up buying random materials science books, linear systems books, and fluid dynamics books to extract the content needed to actually pursue the HW.
Easiest- Tie between Advanced Differential Equations and Physics II for Engineers. Honestly easier than the Art Appreciation class that I took. I've been taking hardware apart and making my own computers since I was like 6, so lab was a joke. Lecture was taught by a really gifted professor, explained the content well. His tests weren't hard, and it was his last semester before retiring. I had Cal III, C Programming, and Diff EQ before, so I found easier ways to do the problems outside of the mathematical analysis he taught, and he'd give me extra credit for doing it "the way they do it at Fermilab".
Hardest- Cell Physiology. Taught by an MD-PhD who thought we were all in medical school. She lived in the Communist USSR and had a heart of ice. She went fast, had unrelated tests, 100% applied content, memorizing the notes would literally probably get you a 0, because nothing was discrete. She was a master at psychologically demeaning students. It was not only academically hard, but psychologically. She found a way to make you scared no matter how mentally tough you were. I learned the most in there though, and I think after that, I'm more prepped for medical school. I had to bust my rear off. Took off from work, broke up with a gf, didn't talk to friends, because I really wanted an A. I had to work my way up from a D to a 91 by the end of the semester.
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My favorite class was probably microbio. My least favorite class(es) was the pchem series.
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DUDE, I'm contemplating on taking PChem this fall. How bad is it? I read the syllabus, and the professor has a Mastering PChem, Pchem HW, obligatory participation on a PChem Wiki blog (lolz srs).
I'm pretty baller at the math and that's not like a worry at all. I don't care what he throws that's mathematical. Just the concepts of stat mech, etc. kinda makes me worried.
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Favorite - Preparation for Clinical Experience was really good, it was run by ER docs who doubled as professors and they introduced us to all these aspects of health care and emergency medicine that we otherwise wouldn't have learned for years down the road. The head professor was awesome and made the class really fun. Drugs and the Brain was also a really cool class that I just finished. It's one of the few classes in which I found the material genuinely very interesting.
Least Favorite - I didn't like Ochem lab at all, our experiments were really hard and we were graded very harshly and overall it was a mess. I also didn't really like a Spanish linguistics class I took last year, we had a professor who was unnecessarily strict and picked favorites and it just didn't go over well.
Easiest - Probably Psych Stats, I had taken Stats a year earlier and the class was a breeze. The exams were really easy, I think my roommate and I both ended up with a 97 or 98 at the end.
Hardest - Gen Chem 1 was really hard for me because my professor wrote really hard exams, at least for freshmen level. Ochem I was also very hard.
Least Favorite - I didn't like Ochem lab at all, our experiments were really hard and we were graded very harshly and overall it was a mess. I also didn't really like a Spanish linguistics class I took last year, we had a professor who was unnecessarily strict and picked favorites and it just didn't go over well.
Easiest - Probably Psych Stats, I had taken Stats a year earlier and the class was a breeze. The exams were really easy, I think my roommate and I both ended up with a 97 or 98 at the end.
Hardest - Gen Chem 1 was really hard for me because my professor wrote really hard exams, at least for freshmen level. Ochem I was also very hard.
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I'm pretty good at math as well so that wasn't my issue. It really depends on your professor. I took pchem 1 with a great professor and it was very uninteresting to me but doable if you follow along. I took pchem 2 with another professor who straight up didn't teach. His notes never helped with the homework or exams so I had to teach myself from the textbook. Pchem lab was also difficult and required a whole lot of work for me as well as a whole lot of learning on my own.
If you do take it, I'd suggest taking calc 3 beforehand. If you don't, it's still doable (depends on your school's prereqs) but may be confusing at first. It does look like your class is a ton of work, though. Mine didn't have that much nonsense, just hw and exams.
I must say I hated pchem 2 but I'm proud of myself for getting through it now.
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Haha I took Cal III freshman semester. Not worried about the math. Do you find the PChem applicable to research or bettering your understanding about matter in any way that could be applied?
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Yeah it was probably a good learning experience. I have never done actual research so I can't answer that question. A friend of mine who does research liked it, though.
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Favorite - Experimental Social Psych. Loved it and went to work in my prof's lab for 2 years.
Least Favorite - either Ear Training (all 4 f-ing semesters of it) or Educational Psych (there's a reason I dropped it twice).
Easiest - bass lessons - showed up went through some Simandl, then on to old Motown, James Brown, Sly Stone, and Funkadelic for 1-2 hour. (Also tied for favorite)
Hardest - Endocrinology - loved it but DEFINITELY the absolute hardest by far. The first test was six questions and we were given as much time as we needed. I was the last to finish after 4 hours. The class average was a 22%. The second test was a 12 question take home that we had a week to finish. I logged 46 hours working on that mother and finished with a single spaced, 36 page tome. Class average was a 31%. The final test was a 15 question comprehensive take home with 2 weeks to finish. Don't know what the average was or how bad it was, because my prof. excused me from it for being one of the only students going into the final with an A 😎.
Least Favorite - either Ear Training (all 4 f-ing semesters of it) or Educational Psych (there's a reason I dropped it twice).
Easiest - bass lessons - showed up went through some Simandl, then on to old Motown, James Brown, Sly Stone, and Funkadelic for 1-2 hour. (Also tied for favorite)
Hardest - Endocrinology - loved it but DEFINITELY the absolute hardest by far. The first test was six questions and we were given as much time as we needed. I was the last to finish after 4 hours. The class average was a 22%. The second test was a 12 question take home that we had a week to finish. I logged 46 hours working on that mother and finished with a single spaced, 36 page tome. Class average was a 31%. The final test was a 15 question comprehensive take home with 2 weeks to finish. Don't know what the average was or how bad it was, because my prof. excused me from it for being one of the only students going into the final with an A 😎.
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Easiest- Any of the maths up to calc I
Hardest- honestly microeconomics. I hated that class with a passion. I didn't like it in hs and I didn't like the uni one either. I just didn't enjoy it.
Liked- physics I. I've always loved physics. Magnetism wasn't as fun as zero'ing forces, but was still a blast.
Hardest- honestly microeconomics. I hated that class with a passion. I didn't like it in hs and I didn't like the uni one either. I just didn't enjoy it.
Liked- physics I. I've always loved physics. Magnetism wasn't as fun as zero'ing forces, but was still a blast.
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I think you should add one more option: classes you didn't even know you were in.
I had signed up for a dance class with the same ending as the bio class I wanted. I never showed up and was never dropped by the professor. Modern Dance I
I had signed up for a dance class with the same ending as the bio class I wanted. I never showed up and was never dropped by the professor. Modern Dance I
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Favorite: Liberal Arts Seminar on Disney. Basically we read books about Disney, watched Disney movies and talked about them. Perfect for a fanatic like me.
Least Favorite: General Zoology. So much memorization, professor was a hard ass, I hate smelling preserved squid for 3 hours
Easiest: All my French classes. I have the cutest little old Frenchman for a professor. He lets us retake quizzes and tests, and his study guides are identical to the tests. It's like middle school.
Hardest: O-chem II. I think everyone knows why
Least Favorite: General Zoology. So much memorization, professor was a hard ass, I hate smelling preserved squid for 3 hours
Easiest: All my French classes. I have the cutest little old Frenchman for a professor. He lets us retake quizzes and tests, and his study guides are identical to the tests. It's like middle school.
Hardest: O-chem II. I think everyone knows why
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I've only gotten through year 1 at my university, but got my Associates out of High School and got credit for every single GE required for my major, so I'll give this a go. (I haven't taken orgo series, physics series, biochem, or any Upper Level Major classes yet.)
Favorite: Calculus 1. Just tied the whole world together in my eyes. Also I had a brilliant professor who won numerous academic awards. Hell, he's even got a wikipedia page at 32 years old.
Least Favorite: Molecular Genetics. Professor was a nice, monotone guy but required attendance which made having to stay for an hour not fun at all. But, you'd memorize a 2,000 question, question-set all for him to randomly choose 30 of them for FIVE module exams. There was a new question set per exam and no way to predict which 30 the computer would randomly spit at you. Grrr.
Easiest: Environment, Ecology & Evolution (did this while I was in HS at a Community College). Just an easy class overall.
Hardest: Gen Chem 1. OH MY GOD, my professor was THE NICEST guy you could ever meet at such a big university, but he was harsh when it came to exams. He definitely made plenty of people quit pre-med or think hard about quitting.
Favorite: Calculus 1. Just tied the whole world together in my eyes. Also I had a brilliant professor who won numerous academic awards. Hell, he's even got a wikipedia page at 32 years old.
Least Favorite: Molecular Genetics. Professor was a nice, monotone guy but required attendance which made having to stay for an hour not fun at all. But, you'd memorize a 2,000 question, question-set all for him to randomly choose 30 of them for FIVE module exams. There was a new question set per exam and no way to predict which 30 the computer would randomly spit at you. Grrr.
Easiest: Environment, Ecology & Evolution (did this while I was in HS at a Community College). Just an easy class overall.
Hardest: Gen Chem 1. OH MY GOD, my professor was THE NICEST guy you could ever meet at such a big university, but he was harsh when it came to exams. He definitely made plenty of people quit pre-med or think hard about quitting.
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Favorite - History of Epidemics. Awesome class - interesting material and great prof. Unfortunately he was a visiting prof so that's the only class I took with him 🙁 (This was hard for me to pick since I was an English major, so I took a lot of random specialized classes, and had a lot of control over what topics I could do for assignments so usually my classes were pretty interesting to me!)
Least Favorite - Middle Ages lit/history. Terrible prof who decided to quiz us on things like "What is the knight wearing on page 513 of King Arthur?" No joke.
Easiest - Well we had to take one of those intro to college classes, but that probably doesn't count haha. Probably World Theatre History (I took it for my fine arts credit and it was like middle school... study guides that matched the tests and creative projects haha, plus we had a field trip - it was a really fun class though) or Biostats (open-note tests).
Hardest - Literary theory. I was going to major in English but we had randomly assigned advisors - mine wasn't in English and told me to take this class first semester, turned out that it's the one major requirement everyone puts off forever because it's ridiculous. The readings are dense and very theoretical/abstract (I still have no idea what Derrida was trying to say and I don't really care lol). I think it ended up making the rest of the major a little easier though, since I really improved my writing skills during this class.
I didn't take much science besides the pre-reqs, but I would say favorite - physics or immuno, least favorite - orgo lol, easiest - intro bio (straight memorization and a lot of it was a repeat from high school), hardest - orgo or genetics
Least Favorite - Middle Ages lit/history. Terrible prof who decided to quiz us on things like "What is the knight wearing on page 513 of King Arthur?" No joke.
Easiest - Well we had to take one of those intro to college classes, but that probably doesn't count haha. Probably World Theatre History (I took it for my fine arts credit and it was like middle school... study guides that matched the tests and creative projects haha, plus we had a field trip - it was a really fun class though) or Biostats (open-note tests).
Hardest - Literary theory. I was going to major in English but we had randomly assigned advisors - mine wasn't in English and told me to take this class first semester, turned out that it's the one major requirement everyone puts off forever because it's ridiculous. The readings are dense and very theoretical/abstract (I still have no idea what Derrida was trying to say and I don't really care lol). I think it ended up making the rest of the major a little easier though, since I really improved my writing skills during this class.
I didn't take much science besides the pre-reqs, but I would say favorite - physics or immuno, least favorite - orgo lol, easiest - intro bio (straight memorization and a lot of it was a repeat from high school), hardest - orgo or genetics
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Favorite: Physics and O Chem b/c our classes had ranking systems and just liked a good challenge.
Least Favorite: Calc b/c I just don't see when I'm ever going to use it.
Easiest: Basic classes like Gov, Humanities, microeconomics.
Hardest: Rhetoric English b/c my professor was a morbidly obese feminist bitch and always preached about "female pride" and all this other BS. Was a drag having to listen to her talk.
Least Favorite: Calc b/c I just don't see when I'm ever going to use it.
Easiest: Basic classes like Gov, Humanities, microeconomics.
Hardest: Rhetoric English b/c my professor was a morbidly obese feminist bitch and always preached about "female pride" and all this other BS. Was a drag having to listen to her talk.
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WTF!?! I thought genes only existed in bacteria (and occasionally S cerevisiae)!
Let's see here....
Favorite? It's a toss-up between scuba diving, horse riding, YA fiction, and a couple others...
Least Favorite? This one Communications class I had to take to fill a graduation requirement.
Easiest? Ochem.
Hardest? Intermediate swimming.
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Favorite: Gen Bio or Anatomy -- I love the human body and it was a bunch of memorization. Interesting to me. Also Women Studies and Feminism....I'm a feminist so that's why I loved it. Yes I still like men. I dont hate them. Let me clear that up.
Least Favorite: Gen Chem I. Just didn't like the problems or the long labs
Hardest: Pediatrics - my teacher was a Pediatric NP and she was rude as hell
Easiest: O Chem- nothing but memorization and visual things and that's how I learn is by seeing.
Least Favorite: Gen Chem I. Just didn't like the problems or the long labs
Hardest: Pediatrics - my teacher was a Pediatric NP and she was rude as hell
Easiest: O Chem- nothing but memorization and visual things and that's how I learn is by seeing.
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Favourite - Either Life in the Universe or Foundations of Biological Anthropology & Archaeology. I'm a nerd like this.
Least Fav - Calculus I. I still don't understand what went on.
Easiest - Sex and Evolution. I literally took a quarter page of notes in the class and was the highest grade. I ended up getting a job because of it.
Hardest - Elementary Russian I. I am bad with languages and this was just horrible. As someone who had already completed an advanced degree, this was the hardest class I've ever had (previously it was a space policy course.) I wish I could have done pass/fail. It was the only C I ever earned. Of the members of the class, not a single one of us went on to Elementary Russian II.
Least Fav - Calculus I. I still don't understand what went on.
Easiest - Sex and Evolution. I literally took a quarter page of notes in the class and was the highest grade. I ended up getting a job because of it.
Hardest - Elementary Russian I. I am bad with languages and this was just horrible. As someone who had already completed an advanced degree, this was the hardest class I've ever had (previously it was a space policy course.) I wish I could have done pass/fail. It was the only C I ever earned. Of the members of the class, not a single one of us went on to Elementary Russian II.
Favorite: OChem and Biochem- Loved the challenge and I was really good at memorizing and seeing things conceptually
Least Favorite: Political science- just not my cup of tea
Easiest: sociology ftw
Hardest: Gen chem 2 lmao I had no idea what was going on.
Least Favorite: Political science- just not my cup of tea
Easiest: sociology ftw
Hardest: Gen chem 2 lmao I had no idea what was going on.
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Favorite Class: Mental Health and Addictions. It was a seminar about class 1 drugs and other recreationally-abused substances and how they all physiologically undermine the body. We had easy to read novels ranging from about alcoholism to crystal meth. The professor is a consulting psychologist with a phd and mph and is a very cool guy who just wanted everyone to enjoy his class. One time we the entire class had to go to an AA meeting 7pm on a friday night - that made for an interesting experience.
Least Favorite: Physics 1. I had such a horrible tenured professor who just recited the problems to the class and everyone had to write everything down. If you try to ask your seatmate for the thing you missed, he will shush you in class and embarrass you. I realized in this class how having the right professor makes all the difference.
Easiest: Orgo 1 & 2. This class just clicked with me. I compared it to solving puzzles everytime when it comes to mechanisms, ir/nmr, and retro questions. There was a lot of content but the fact that I enjoyed the class and everything made sense to me prob made it easier. Although I did spend a lot of time doing prob sets and wrote on whiteboards tons of mechanisms until it became second nature.
Hardest: I haven't taken cell phys yet but I'm sure that's the one I'll put up here when I take it next semester.
Least Favorite: Physics 1. I had such a horrible tenured professor who just recited the problems to the class and everyone had to write everything down. If you try to ask your seatmate for the thing you missed, he will shush you in class and embarrass you. I realized in this class how having the right professor makes all the difference.
Easiest: Orgo 1 & 2. This class just clicked with me. I compared it to solving puzzles everytime when it comes to mechanisms, ir/nmr, and retro questions. There was a lot of content but the fact that I enjoyed the class and everything made sense to me prob made it easier. Although I did spend a lot of time doing prob sets and wrote on whiteboards tons of mechanisms until it became second nature.
Hardest: I haven't taken cell phys yet but I'm sure that's the one I'll put up here when I take it next semester.
Favorite: Evolution of Animal Behavior - explained why I repeatedly stare at a woman's rear in a very scientific and somewhat approving way.
Least Favorite: Orgo lab. An absolute cluster**** of experiments and writeups.
Easiest: Sociology of the Family...or {insert sociology class here}
Hardest: Cancer - it was an undergrad/grad course that combined concepts in biochem/molbio/genetics/physio/endo and any other biology class all into 3 hours of hell every week.
Least Favorite: Orgo lab. An absolute cluster**** of experiments and writeups.
Easiest: Sociology of the Family...or {insert sociology class here}
Hardest: Cancer - it was an undergrad/grad course that combined concepts in biochem/molbio/genetics/physio/endo and any other biology class all into 3 hours of hell every week.
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Favorite: Reproduction. This was an English course and we looked at literature and scientific materials mostly through a feminist lens. It was fascinating
Least favorite: calc 1. I'm not so good with the maths.
Easiest: evolution. So much extra credit. Also it was super interesting as well so that helped
Hardest: physiology. The material was complex but it was the professor who really killed it. He was just mean af, would make fun of you if answered something wrong in front of the whole class. It was just awful
Least favorite: calc 1. I'm not so good with the maths.
Easiest: evolution. So much extra credit. Also it was super interesting as well so that helped
Hardest: physiology. The material was complex but it was the professor who really killed it. He was just mean af, would make fun of you if answered something wrong in front of the whole class. It was just awful
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easiest- biology 1
favorite- anatomy and physiology 🙂
hardest- botany, because it is so dang boring. 😴
favorite- anatomy and physiology 🙂
hardest- botany, because it is so dang boring. 😴
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Lawls, Evolution was my hardest (grade-wise, not material). My prof was a real hard-butt; he'd give detailed pop quizzes that all added up to an exam grade, but they were graded out of 3 points and if you got one thing wrong it was a 2/3. So you could take every quiz, miss one detail, and have a 67%.
Easiest: I dunno, Gen Chem II or Intro to Fine Arts? I got enough extra credit I didn't need to take the finals.
Hardest: Evolution. Concept-wise, probably O-Chem II.
Least Fav: University Seminar, a "transition to college" class that was a total waste of time. The only good that came out of it was that I met one of my best friends.
Fav: Hard question. Polymers, Into to Fine Arts, Scuba...I liked a whole lot of classes. I'm a nerd. 🙁
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Favorite: Literature courses for my Language Minor
Least Favorite: Chem
Easiest: Physics I and II
Hardest: Chem II
Least Favorite: Chem
Easiest: Physics I and II
Hardest: Chem II
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Favorite: Metabolic biochemistry
Least Favorite: Calculus II
Easiest: Introductory Nutrition
Hardest: Calculus II
Least Favorite: Calculus II
Easiest: Introductory Nutrition
Hardest: Calculus II
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Easiest: Any 200-level Psych. They're the only classes in my entire college with multiple-choice based tests. Hard as hell to get into, because the profs cap the lectures ridiculously small. Sidenote: why??? You guys GIVE SCANTRON TESTS and lecture from powerpoints, class size makes zero difference. Honestly, it seemed super lazy to me. Multiple of the profs told me it was because 'grading gets hard when the class is above 30'. Suck it up, the orgo profs grade mechanism-based exams for 3x as many people.
Hardest: Hmmm...a tie between Synthetic Organic and a really cool coral reef tutorial I took. TBH, the synthetic course was clouded by a bunch of other crap going on in my life, though, so it's hard to say exactly. The tutorial involved reading 10 or so primary literature sources each week and writing a 10-page paper synthesizing all of their conflicting/slightly different data and conclusions every other week. Class was you, the prof, and your partner, who had read the same material, sitting in an office going through your paper line by line and shredding it/bringing up points you missed from the literature, inevitably devolving into a lively debate about some nuance or other. It was a brilliant class, and probably one of the most intense learning and personal-growth processes I have ever experienced, but holy hell were those papers hard to crank out. It was far worse than writing the final project for any other science course, only every other week and you got to participate in the grading session and also your friend decided to help the prof critique your paper.
Favorite: Did I mention how much fun that coral reef tutorial was? I learned SO freaking much and I felt so accomplished at the end. The fact that it involved an all-expenses-paid trip to an island to participate in a long-term coral mapping project at the end didn't hurt, though that was also a lot of work, both physical and mental. Class would have been my fav without that perk, though. The professor really helped me shape up as a student and a person, and even let me and my tutorial partner join her for Thanksgiving dinner at her house that year.
Runner up would have been every Orgo class I ever took, btw
Least favorite: Physical chemistry. I don't even want to talk about it. Hated everything about the subject material, and also there were no deadlines so we all failed to turn everything in and then had to do ALL of the assignments for the entire semester during/after finals period. Seriously, everyone else finished their finals and the 5-6 people in that P-chem class just sat inside pulling all nighters cranking out endless p-chem work, it was awful. I love Mathematica for doing my work for me, hate it for allowing profs to assign calculations that no one actually understands.
Hardest: Hmmm...a tie between Synthetic Organic and a really cool coral reef tutorial I took. TBH, the synthetic course was clouded by a bunch of other crap going on in my life, though, so it's hard to say exactly. The tutorial involved reading 10 or so primary literature sources each week and writing a 10-page paper synthesizing all of their conflicting/slightly different data and conclusions every other week. Class was you, the prof, and your partner, who had read the same material, sitting in an office going through your paper line by line and shredding it/bringing up points you missed from the literature, inevitably devolving into a lively debate about some nuance or other. It was a brilliant class, and probably one of the most intense learning and personal-growth processes I have ever experienced, but holy hell were those papers hard to crank out. It was far worse than writing the final project for any other science course, only every other week and you got to participate in the grading session and also your friend decided to help the prof critique your paper.
Favorite: Did I mention how much fun that coral reef tutorial was? I learned SO freaking much and I felt so accomplished at the end. The fact that it involved an all-expenses-paid trip to an island to participate in a long-term coral mapping project at the end didn't hurt, though that was also a lot of work, both physical and mental. Class would have been my fav without that perk, though. The professor really helped me shape up as a student and a person, and even let me and my tutorial partner join her for Thanksgiving dinner at her house that year.
Runner up would have been every Orgo class I ever took, btw
Least favorite: Physical chemistry. I don't even want to talk about it. Hated everything about the subject material, and also there were no deadlines so we all failed to turn everything in and then had to do ALL of the assignments for the entire semester during/after finals period. Seriously, everyone else finished their finals and the 5-6 people in that P-chem class just sat inside pulling all nighters cranking out endless p-chem work, it was awful. I love Mathematica for doing my work for me, hate it for allowing profs to assign calculations that no one actually understands.
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Polymer chem is actually on my short list as well...but srs, how did you take a SCUBA course and it didn't make your 'easiest' list?
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Yeah, that was a pretty easy class, too.
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Fav: general chemistry - I live for chemistry, very interesting
Least favorite: history - I seriously don't know my own birth date half of the time
Hardest: thermodynamics - residuals made no sense to me before
Pchem ties with hardest - wtf is point groups???
Easiest: Ochem/physics - everything makes sense
Edit : oh, so ... Apparently yesterday was NOT my bday
Least favorite: history - I seriously don't know my own birth date half of the time
Hardest: thermodynamics - residuals made no sense to me before
Pchem ties with hardest - wtf is point groups???
Easiest: Ochem/physics - everything makes sense
Edit : oh, so ... Apparently yesterday was NOT my bday
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