Favorite/Least Favorite Science Prerequisite?

[lareinesoleil]

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The Classes In Which I Had a Love-Hate Relationship: Organic Chemistry (You were so fun, but so difficult...)

SO true.

Favorite: Genetics!

Least favorite: Biochem. BLURGH.

 

[LMMS]

Favorite: MICRO!!! Best course EVER!!! 😍

Least Favorite: It's on the tip of my tongue to say organic, but I'm having a hate/love relationship with it this time around. So, I'm going with Genetics... Took it 3 times and hated every waking moment. Calculus comes in a close second.

 

[thedogisgreen]

favorites - metabolic biochem, comparative physio, systems neuro, animal behavior
worst - ochem was absolutely horribly terribly disgusting and i never want to go near it again

 

[Coquette22]

The statistics portion of my ecology is one big reason it was a major PITA - stats was not a pre-requisite for the course, but then it was magically assumed that we knew how to do a good amount of statistical analysis. Combined with really crappy labs (really? We're going to drive to a woods, hike two miles to count wooden doves you've set up in a 100 square foot area?) and a high emphasis on plant ecology in a zoology-required course made it miserable. urgh.

If I hadn't taken stats, one ecology lab we had would have confused the living daylights out of me. The TA spent a half hour explaining how to run a student's T-test by hand (and not explaining it very well, I might add), then we got the assignment only to find out we were supposed to use Minitab for it anyway. I played solitaire on my laptop during the explanation. And then explained it to my very confused lab partner (who ironically had been previously teasing me for taking second year stats ).

 

[LoveMyDobies]

FAVORITE:Immunology

LEAST FAVORITE/WORST CLASS EVER: Physiology & Biomechanics Laboratory

 

[bbeventer]

Favorite: Cell Bio

Least Favorite: Genetics (I guess thats what happens though when your prof looses one of your test scores)🙄

 

[CurrySpice]

Loved biochemistry and animal physiology. Orgo II was fun but entirely too time consuming. If the professor were not so fantastic I would have loathed physics...I am rather scared of next semester physics !

 

[Shadow23]

Favorite: Vertebrate Zoology, Marine Birds & Mammals 😍😍😍
Least Favorite: Mammalogy. I was SOOO looking forward to this class, but the professor was HORID and instead of learning basic characteristics of mammals and then moving on to an in-depth look at each of the 29 mammal orders like we were supposed to, we only made it through basic characteristics (think anatomy of hair, claws, nails, etc) that even non-bio majors know! I found this ridiculous. Plus the tests were on minutia. What a waste of what could have been an amazing graduate-level course (you had to be a junior or senior bio major to take it). 👎

 

[fromthebox]

FAVORITE:Immunology

I love Immunology! I even took the elective Medical Immunology course and lab(eight really tough units) in the spring of my senior year because they were fun. In the lab, we produced our own antibody-secreting mouse b-cell lines, it was AWESOME.

So, favorites: Immunology, Parasitology and Orgo lab (well any lab really)

Least favorites:Organic lecture A, B and C. I never really understood how the lab could be so fascinating but the lectures either put me to sleep or left me so confused I didn't know where to start.

 

[KKibo]

Favorite: Vertebrate Zoology, Marine Birds & Mammals 😍😍😍
Least Favorite: Mammalogy. I was SOOO looking forward to this class, but the professor was HORID and instead of learning basic characteristics of mammals and then moving on to an in-depth look at each of the 29 mammal orders like we were supposed to, we only made it through basic characteristics (think anatomy of hair, claws, nails, etc) that even non-bio majors know! I found this ridiculous. Plus the tests were on minutia. What a waste of what could have been an amazing graduate-level course (you had to be a junior or senior bio major to take it). 👎

Hate that for you, mammology is an amazing class...our professor took us on so many field trips it was ridiculous. The lecture was great, but talk about an intense amount of information!

 

[heylodeb]

Best: Eukaryotic Cell Physiology. LOVED that class, I am so fascinated by how the cell works and how it communicates. Unfortunately, my professor wasn't as ecstatic as I was about my ability to explain it in an exam.... so he gave me a lower than ideal grade. *sigh* but I still LEARNED a lot! I also ended up tutoring it the next semester and my student got a higher grade than I did. Irony! 🙂

Worst: Virology. I was super excited to take this class. WORST professor EVER. Like painfully god awful. Boring, pointless, stupid....absolutely NO clinical application - just memorization of structure and method of replication. I ended up with an 'A' which is miraculous because by the end of the semester I was literally DRAGGING myself to the class. (what made it worse: It was a 7:30am class..)

and then don't get me started on any class that has the word "chem" in it...blegh

(excpet biochem - had an awesome professor!)

 

[StartingoverVet]

Favorite: Probably genetics, but honestly I liked most of my classes.

Least Favorite: Easily O-chem LAB. Hours of busy-work before every lab (having to write out by hand all the MSDS information, making flow-charts of the procedures etc), no idea what we were trying to accomplish in lab, and then hours writing up post-labs explaining away lousy results. That was one summer of my life I will never get back.

 

[Cautionary Tail]

I hated making flow charts!

My Organic I professor was enamored with them. And making us do them on the computer. On programs not designed for that purpose. (Which invariably turned what should have been a thirty minute waste of time into a three hour waste of time.) 👎

I was so thrilled when I made it to II, asked if we had to do a flow chart for the first lab, and the professor basically said: "No. Those are ridiculous and a waste of time. Just calculate the stoichiometry and copy the MSDS." 😍