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Not sure if this has been done before... I think there was a "Least Favorite Pre-Req" on this forum, but I was just wondering what everyone's least favorite course is!

My least favorite course was Introduction to Computing with C++. At my university, up until November, they required Biology students to take a course that proved they were computer proficient. If not, you could challenge it. Most biology students took C++... you also had the option of doing Computing 100, which basically teaches you what a mouse is and what a cell in Excel is. I decided to give C++ a try... and it sucked. Hated every minute of it. When will I ever need to make a computer program that allows me to sort a series of numbers or output "Hello World!" on the screen? Also, the lab was geared towards people who already knew a bit of C++. After the first lab, they stopped giving us an outline on how to set up the program, and I could feel my blood pressure rising, it stressed me out so much! Also, the prof didn't speak english very well, so trying to pick up on what he had to say was impossible.

If I don't get into vet school... well, there is no hope that I will ever become a programmer.

What about you guys? Just didn't like the material or just didn't like how it was taught? Feel free to vent.

And happy holidays everyone! Hope exams went well 🙂
 
Calculus......I was quite proud of my c+ in that class... I suck at math and neither the prof or the ta spoke a word of English.

I actually went on to get an A on physics... Go figure! And they told me not to bother with regular physics if I didn't like calc
 
Public Speaking which is weird because I'm actually a very experienced and comfortable public speaker. My professor was insane though. He used to hold me after class after every speech and tell me that while I was clearly a 'gifted speaker and writer' he was going to find ways to dock points because he 'just doesn't give A's'. I did end up with an A- in the class somehow though. To his credit I was the only person in the A range so he was telling the truth.

General Micro runs a close second b/c my professor would stand at the front of the class, mumble his slides word for word and when he got to the end simply gather up his materials and walk out of the room. It was painful.
 
Large Animal Anatomy. Only because I don't enjoy large animals and I resented putting a vast amount of information about them into my brain. It's my intention to never touch a cow/horse in my career, but I still had to know all their vessels, neves, etc.

Kind of like O-chem for some people - you hate it and never think you'll use it. Maybe it'll actually be handy but in a perfect world you'd never see it again. 😉

For undergrad my most hated class was physics....ugh....
 
Biochem, only because the prof was the devil's advocate. He would explain things to you and test on the smallest minute detail that he only said a sentence about. He also didn't have a grading scale and when you would ask to see your progress overall he would tell you "its all about the final class average." I hated not knowing how I am doing when that score will determine if you get into vet school or not. 😡

Orgo 2 comes in a close second.
 
Just finished Systemic Mammalian Physiology, and while the material was interesting, multiple choice tests are horrible. It was also team-taught by four different people, so once you figured out one testing style, it was on to a new and more horrible one. C is for cookie, and that's good enough for me.
 
I'll be original and say Organic I and II!

I just had the worst prof ever for my first semester with it, and ended up with a W. Even though the class's average was a low D and there were maybe 2 B's and no A's (this was a class of 150 mind you), he swore he would never curve (and he was new so I had no idea if he was bluffing).

so immediately I dropped along with 78% of the class, and of course, he curved at the very end.

But despite my bitterness and avoidance and hatred of the subject, I am now done with it FOREVER and I ended up with an A for I and II! woohoo!!!
 
I know my calculus...it says U + me equals US. Best fake boy band ever

Sorry back to your regularly scheduled program.......

Oh worst class ever...hmm probably my genetics lab. It wasn't difficult but my professor was horrible. I hated coming to that class everytime. Our experiments never worked because we didn't have protocols due to the fact the prof never came to class prepared. Everything was a mystery guessing game. Very frustrating.
 
Calculus! After the second week or so, the prof might as well have been speaking Sanskrit for all I understood. I only got a C+ 'cause I'm good at writing papers that make me sound like I know what I'm talking about.

I did manage to get an A in Physics though... sound familiar, Cowgirla? For me, I think this was just because I can see Physics in everything (unlike Calc, which seems to me like an abstract torture device that emerged from the dreams of sadistic mathematician).
 
Ha.. Me too! C+ in calc, A in physics... Anyone else in the club?
 
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Toss up between Calculus and Organic I/II... both were hell and made me hate the school, professor, and myself.
Also, first semester freshman year, I almost dropped out of school completely because of a stupid composition class. The class was pure evil, but how dumb that would have been! 😱
 
IHeartGoldens said:
Ha.. Me too! C+ in calc, A in physics... Anyone else in the club?
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I am! C+ in calc and A+ in both physics I and physics II. Another non-curving prof so there were no A's in our class of 45 that semester. Lucky for me that at my school Calc is only 3 creds and each Physics class is 5 creds so I picked the right subject to be confused in!
 
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IHeartGoldens said:
Ha.. Me too! C+ in calc, A in physics... Anyone else in the club?
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Woo! I'll join the club. I haven't taken Physics 2, that's coming up in January but so far that's how I've done.

My least favorite class was microbiology because of the teacher. I loved the lab and learning about the different organisms, I just really hated my professor. It made it torture to sit through. Even though I pulled out a B, I thought for sure I was going to fail it.
 
Oh gosh, I'm opposite! A in Calculus, and I HATE physics! :uhno:
 
Willowhand said:
Calculus! (which seems to me like an abstract torture device that emerged from the dreams of sadistic mathematician).
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Without a doubt Calculus, my C in undergrad. 👎 Not really sure how I even managed to do that well. Even with a really hot grad student teaching it (WTF!), she stopped looking so good after about a month of that torture! :laugh:

As for Grad School; Human Neuroanatomy. I just could not get it, and I abhor anything to do with primate medicine. The teacher was awesome, but I simply could not manage to grasp the content. Funny thing is I am pretty sure most of my classmates loved the class. Then again, I actually liked Endocrinology, so my opinions may not be worth much! :idea:
 
Calculus: hardest and most frustrating. Sociology: obnoxious, 100% BS.
 
I loved Calculus AND Physics!! (I feel like the biggest nerd saying that....)

I absolutely loathed biochem.....no matter how hard I studied or how many times I went for help from the professor, it just wasn't good enough. Somehow I managed to pull off a C in that class. My guess is divine intervention.
 
Caninerepro said:
Without a doubt Calculus, my C in undergrad. 👎 Not really sure how I even managed to do that well. Even with a really hot grad student teaching it (WTF!), she stopped looking so good after about a month of that torture! :laugh:
Endocrinology, so my opinions may not be worth much! :idea:
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I also HATED Calculus. I got a C+ in it 😡. I also hated general chemistry II. Endocrinology was one of my favorite classes that I took during undergrad even though it was a graduate course. It was such an awesome class, but so hard. I was also a huge fan of Biochemistry.
 
worst class and professor ever was biometry. we went through three textbooks in that class. THREE TEXTBOOKS!!@$R!!@$QWD!@
 
Trig and organic chemistry definitely win for classes that never really clicked for me and kicked my butt all semester.

However, as much as those two sucked, I'm still seething about this class I took last winter. Our university requires an upper level humanities course to graduate. I didn't want to take one during a normal semester, so I signed up for the only pre-semester one available: poetry and social justice. It was 5 hours a day for 2 weeks. It was a complete kumbahya hippie lets sit in a circle and hold hands and share, then write bad poetry about it class. I spent those two weeks contemplating self-lobotomizing with a mechanical pencil to make it more pleasant.
 
jpeterman13 said:
I also HATED Calculus.
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I'm sad so many people here hate calc.

My least favorite class used to be Organic I, until I realized that the reason I wasn't getting the B I knew I deserved was my own fault (who requires pre-class questions online due at 8 am, right before the lecture starts, 3 times a week?).

At this point, it's process dynamics and control. Here's to me not switching majors two years ago when I knew I didn't want to be an engineer...
 
Biochem 😡 I had three teachers, only one native English speaker in a 300+ classroom => hard to understand and learn!

I love calc because I can do it, but I have a hard time understanding physics, so I don't like it.... and my final is only at 8 AM tomorrow! :scared:
 
For me it was Genetics. BO-RING!

Orgo wasn't too bad and I had a good looking Biochem teacher so that kept me entertained haha
 
Ecology. It was super easy, but incredibly boring. I only had to take it because some guidance person messed up my zoology emphasis. So I took micro for my junior writing requirement. Then, once they fixed my zoology emphasis I had to take ecology for the junior writing requirement. IMO who actually enjoys staring at things in the “wild” and attempting to find a pattern especially since most ecologists focus on plants 🙂thumbdown) (To me it would be similar to staring at stinky feet all day). Ecology was definitely my least favorite. A close second would have to be my Introduction to Literature class, the prof was a douchebag (He actually got into a student’s face and yelled at them for no reason in the middle of class.)
 
I had an awesome genetics professor, and I'm geeky enough to enjoy all of the recent research about RNAi and such.

Not a fan of calc 2. It all seemed so magical and wonderful when it was being explained, but then I couldn't apply it.

WildlifeStudy, you can do it! Good luck tomorrow.

Lailanni, send your large animals to me and I'll let you deal with all of the little yippy dogs and pissed-off cats.

TrocarKarin, I have to say that I'm with you about the BS humanities classes. I am taking a 100-level communications course next semester for Iowa and I anticipate it with all of the joy of a semester-long waterboarding. The sad thing is that some of my humanities classes could have been so much better under different circumstances. My cognitive psychology professor could put the most severe insomniac to sleep, and I love neuroscience! I am so glad that the communications class is the last humanities course I ever have to take.

Aww, there seems to be a lot of hate around here for ecology. I guess I'm more of a behavioral ecology nerd, though, so we'll see how my actual ecology course goes next semester. But there's no way that plants are worse than podiatry.
 
eventualeventer said:
But there's no way that plants are worse than podiatry.
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Uh Oh.....God just killed a kitten..... >> .... << .....😀

My least favorite classes were the three lit studies classes I took for my humanities. I love reading and see no reason to ruin it with analytical thinking. Also, when a class is titled women in british literature....they do not mean Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, or any of those other worth while women. They meant writings that first appeared by women about herbal remedies and how to prevent pregnancy. Ugh! Worst class ever by far.
 
The bad thing is as I look through everyone's list of hates, the science courses are all going to be seen again on steroids in vet school, trust me. Even Physics (radiology, forces on joints anyone). Well, except for CALCULUS!!!!! So far we have needed no calculators more advanced than the cheap piece of crap one Banfield gave us, and that only for calculating feed rations or dosages on meds. So there evil math nerds, take that! You're not so realevant in the REAL WORLD! Well except for in podiatry. 😛
 
i hated psych stats. now why did i take psych stats? because stats is integrated in my bio, chem, AND physics curriculum (it's not a major req for any of these just for that reason), but i hadda take it anyway for my pre-reqs.

the stupid prof made it mandatory to go to lecture (3 missed lectures and you're out)... um... i was job searching at that time and when it came down to interviewing at a potential job vs. sitting in class napping while the prof talked about how to read a stupid chart to figure out p-values for a t-test, i went for the potential job. she got very pissed at me. i had an A in the class... and we had to average like 50 numbers on paper by hand. then do the standard deviations on paper by hand. talk about a waste of papers. :bang:
 
Funny that this should come up now, since I was asked this in my interview with Mizzou last year lol.

My least favorite undergraduate class was called Religion in Pop Culture. I thought it was going to be a way to open my own horizons and to see the world as I knew it in a different light by comparing the mass amount of travelers who make it to the Super Bowl every year to a similarly large amount of travelers who journey to a mecca of their faith and the like. What it turned out to be was an exercise in learning how to withstand being told every day by the professor that we really weren't good enough or smart enough to be in his course because he's written 5 books (many of which were on the list of required texts) and has 2 more about to be published and he's also an editor of books other people plan to publish in his spare time, and that he was going to have papers due incessantly and we would never have a hope at achieving his level of greatness on them, so we really shouldn't even bother trying to impress him because it was never going to happen.

When, after three weeks of torture, I realized he wasn't kidding, I dropped that ****. Yikes.
 
OnceBitten said:
My least favorite undergraduate class was called Religion in Pop Culture. I thought it was going to be a way to open my own horizons and to see the world as I knew it in a different light by comparing the mass amount of travelers who make it to the Super Bowl every year to a similarly large amount of travelers who journey to a mecca of their faith and the like. What it turned out to be was an exercise in learning how to withstand being told every day by the professor that we really weren't good enough or smart enough to be in his course because he's written 5 books (many of which were on the list of required texts) and has 2 more about to be published and he's also an editor of books other people plan to publish in his spare time, and that he was going to have papers due incessantly and we would never have a hope at achieving his level of greatness on them, so we really shouldn't even bother trying to impress him because it was never going to happen.
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Sounds like my organic prof. He spent atleast 35% of our class time telling us about grad school, his wife, his son, grad school, or Scotland. Because he spent at least 35% of the class doing this, he had to rush through some lectures because he didn't have time. The lectures weren't going to anyway. He gave us handouts, and would then put them on the projector and read them word for word. I went to every class but one and only took a paragraph worth of extra notes. Then he called us a bunch of asses because half of the class didn't do the homework assignments that weren't mandatory and weren't graded. Wrote the tests and they had nothing to do with what he taught in class or the assignments. Now I have to re-take organic in the spring. He retired thank goodness. Should have dropped it, but I had it in my head that it'll all be okay. He also said that I'll never be a vet with my organic grades. Idiot. I'm not giving up my dream because you're a bad prof.
 
Worst class so far was ecology and calc I. I couldnt stand ecology and I am so excited that I never have to deal with it again!!!! Such a pointless class. Calc I we just wont go there. I withdrew once then took it over the summer and ended up with a B+ which I was THRILLED with!
But I LOVE organic chem, I took my final on monday and my professor found me in the building to tell me what I got because he was wicked excited about my grade (99.5%...damn stereochem and a hydrogen). I was the closest person to ever get a perfect score in his class and he was excited about it..lol. Cant wait for Organic II next semester with him 🙂
 
I'm surprised no one else has brought this one up... one of my least favorites was GEN CHEM 101! UGH! I'm sure this situation is a common one in the intro chem classes full of pre-health students to weed them out, but my prof (with a PhD in both chemistry AND physics) seemed intent on telling us how this subject was so difficult and wouldn't be surprised if half of us failed and never went to pursue our dreams because of this one class and blablabla. He used to call on terrified students randomly and then make fun of them if they didn't know the answer to his question. I used to sit near the front of the classroom, but gradually sifted into a less-picked-on corner. He also liked to touch on some physical chemistry just because he thought it'd be fun... maybe for him but not for us who had no idea what he was talking about come exams. Ended up with a C+. Orgo II sucked also, but not because of the prof's teaching. This teacher was actually AWESOME, and flamboyant and hilarious. But we finally found out that his passion was organic synthesis. And our exams pretty much only consisted of these insane synthesis problems where if you got the first one or two (out of 15-20) steps wrong, then you'd get pretty much no points on it. We had some grad students complain about the course too. I really did find the class interesting, but it was way out of my league. Also a C+ for me.

I didn't find calc so bad. It sucked at first because I hadn't seen any trig in about 4 years prior... but I worked my ass off and managed to pull off A-'s both semesters. I think those are probably two of my proudest grades, because they were classes where really putting an effort in for me actually paid off. Unlike gen chem or orgo. Bah. Didn't matter how much effort I put into orgo II, I couldn't raise my crappy grade... that feeling of helplessness sucked pretty hard.
 
TheEvilShoe said:
I'm surprised no one else has brought this one up... one of my least favorites was GEN CHEM 101! UGH!
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I'm thinking of re-taking one of my gen chem classes next year to get a better grade. In high school, I didn't have good teachers for chemistry in grades 11 and 12 and felt like I didn't learn much. I found gen chem very difficult and hated it! But now, I don't know, but I can't wait to take it again... I all of a sudden got this drive to learn it and be able to understand it. Also, the same prof I had for organic won't be teaching it this time and making me feel like an idiot... muahahaha.
 
The award for least favorite class in my book goes to...Physical Chemistry! Yuck yuck yuck. It's as dreadfully boring as it sounds. The professor lectures in a very monotonous voice, clears his throat every 7-10 seconds and makes lots of wet-mouth noises. Really, really doesn't help me focus when the material already seems irrelevant. Would never have taken it were it not required by my school.

Finished the final yesterday though so never more! 😀
 
TSElegans said:
The award for least favorite class in my book goes to...Physical Chemistry! Yuck yuck yuck. It's as dreadfully boring as it sounds. The professor lectures in a very monotonous voice, clears his throat every 7-10 seconds and makes lots of wet-mouth noises. Really, really doesn't help me focus when the material already seems irrelevant. Would never have taken it were it not required by my school.

Finished the final yesterday though so never more! 😀
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What the F*$k did you take P-Chem? You deserve what you got for being such a gunner! :laugh:
 
scarcelyheard said:
I'm thinking of re-taking one of my gen chem classes next year to get a better grade. In high school, I didn't have good teachers for chemistry in grades 11 and 12 and felt like I didn't learn much. I found gen chem very difficult and hated it! But now, I don't know, but I can't wait to take it again... I all of a sudden got this drive to learn it and be able to understand it. Also, the same prof I had for organic won't be teaching it this time and making me feel like an idiot... muahahaha.
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A hint, don't both retaking gen chem, especially with what you are doing in O chem. Just nail Ochem II and biochem, then have your O Chem prof write one of your letters of recc.

My O Chem prof spent the entire class telling us A) he helped invent NutraSweet, and B) he was PO'd that vet schools dropped the 2 semester of O Chem requirement, so he decided to just cram the entire content of his formerly 2 semester class verbatum into the one four credit course. He also taught O Chem from a P Chem perspective. My father is a physical chemist as well, and the two of them used to laugh at us stupid biology majors who were not smart enough to figure out bond angles, et. Both of them are bastards BTW. Never before had I worked so hard for a crappy B in a class. Then again, now that I am in vet school, every class is that hard, and requires that much work! So I guess it was decent preperation for real life afterall. I still hated calculus most though. 👎
 
Caninerepro said:
A hint, don't both retaking gen chem, especially with what you are doing in O chem. Just nail Ochem II and biochem, then have your O Chem prof write one of your letters of recc.
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Thanks... I was also thinking that if all went well of organic I then I could take organic II next winter along with biochem. Chemistry is my weakness, but I have the drive now to want to understand it, so we'll see how it goes 🙂
 
Everyone is down on ecology? Maybe you didn't have my awesome classes! I love plants!

Plants are going to show up in vet school. Sorry guys. At least at ours we have a big section of toxicology devoted to plant ID. Some random weed appears in a farmers field, cows aren't doing so hot...what plant is it?
 
I love ecology, but man my teacher was SOOOO boring and monotone. Love the subject though
 
My least favorite class by far was definitely advanced biochem. The teacher was great, but she went through some tough family issues during the class and took it out on us for our last three tests. Plus we had one of our exams the Monday after Halloween and another the day before Thanksgiving. I did fine in the class, but it took so much work... 5 exams, pop quizzes = to a test grade, random research papers to read for HW, a 10 page paper on a protein and a group project on a research paper that we had a week to put together. I don't mind working that hard in a class, but when the subject is biochem it really puts me to sleep. 😴
 
Faith88 said:
My least favorite class by far was definitely advanced biochem. The teacher was great, but she went through some tough family issues during the class and took it out on us for our last three tests. Plus we had one of our exams the Monday after Halloween and another the day before Thanksgiving. I did fine in the class, but it took so much work... 5 exams, pop quizzes = to a test grade, random research papers to read for HW, a 10 page paper on a protein and a group project on a research paper that we had a week to put together. I don't mind working that hard in a class, but when the subject is biochem it really puts me to sleep. 😴
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I'd much rather have a lot of assignments like that than just 3 tests like I did blahhh
 
luplodw said:
I'd much rather have a lot of assignments like that than just 3 tests like I did blahhh
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no kidding!!! the 2 exams and a cumulative final is sooo rough. that's how mine was. i would have loved the other assignments.
 
rileyroo said:
no kidding!!! the 2 exams and a cumulative final is sooo rough. that's how mine was. i would have loved the other assignments.
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I hate it when your grade is based strictly off of exams. Thats how my biochem class was and I bombed the first test and then did excellent on the last two but still wasn't over the hump of the first test to get me a reasonable grade. I was bummed.
 
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