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Hardest College Class
Started by JimL
Depends on school, professor, and your personal interests. For me, 2nd half of general chemistry was the hardest, and physics followed it up (simply because I hate physics.)
Microbiology, Philosophy
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If you though those were hard, you would HATE Microbiological Philosophy or Philosophy of Microbes!!!!! 😛
Any class that involved massive amounts of reading like history or comparative lit. It was mainly a battle of willpower/staying awake, and reading the books took up so much time from my major courses.
Thankfully I'm done with my writing/humanities core courses now.
Thankfully I'm done with my writing/humanities core courses now.
From what I've seen so far, you'll General or Organic Chemistry. Can't have both x)
I spent a good minute trying to figure out what this means...I got nothing. I say YOU will general or organic chemistry.
Analytical Chemistry followed by Organic Chemistry II
Well. >:[ I never! Oops. I meant understand one of the two, haha. It seems like people who understand General struggle in Organic and vice-versa.
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Look into what classes your school uses to weed out pre-meds. At my school it was General Chemistry where the class was curved to a C with 50% receiving a C or below, and 5% receiving an A.
Based solely on subject matter, watch out for biochemistry and Neurobiology/neuroanatomy. They're vicious...
Based solely on subject matter, watch out for biochemistry and Neurobiology/neuroanatomy. They're vicious...
Everything is easy w/practice, but the one that took the most hours was probably Chem
Tulane undergrad's Ochem is unanimously agreed to be the toughest undergrad course to the point that we designate that class to be the the strainer that filters out premed students who realize that med school is far out of their reach. Univariate and Multivariate statistics are tied for close second.
While it may be different at Tulane with what you described, I've never really liked Ochem always labeled as THE premed weed out class. To me it just seemed like a very abstract class that you either get, or don't get.
Comparative Anatomy and American Literature to 1865. Histology has been my favorite course in college, but it was frustrating studying newer slides and slides from manuals and then getting to the exam and seeing that the slides are stained differently and look to be from the stone age. You learn, though.
