Poll: Most Difficult Pre-Vet Prerequisite Class?

[zpinkpanther]

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Inorganic Chemistry:

Organic Chemistry: 8

Biochemistry: 6

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 7

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

Physics murdered my soul. And I still haven't found it the least bit helpful in the "real world." I loved calc and organic, though! I know, weird. 🙄

 

[rara avis]

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[rouxeny]

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[Konfetkette]

Inorganic Chemistry:

Organic Chemistry: 9

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 6

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

I voted biochem because it's insane
rouxeny, I know what you mean about those molecules!!! We had one exam in Orgo I which focused heavily on those. I failed miserably (my first F). But as soon as we got to reactions it was OK again. Luckily my professor only has one conformation or fischer proj. problem on every exam (I always do them wrong).

 

[chagheill]

Inorganic Chemistry:
Organic Chemistry: 9
Biochemistry: 7
Microbiology: 1
Physics: 9
Genetics: 2
Biology: 2
Nutrition:
Anatomy: 1
Physiology:1
Calculus: 4

I vote physics.

 

[eventualeventer]

Inorganic Chemistry:
Organic Chemistry: 9
Biochemistry: 7
Microbiology: 1
Physics: 9
Genetics: 2
Biology: 2
Nutrition:
Anatomy: 1
Physiology:1
Calculus: 5

Another vote for calculus. I took calc 2 twice -- once in high school, got a 3 on the AP exam (which counts for calc 1 but not calc 2) -- and bombed the tests both times. The derivations of different types of equations, etc., seemed so elegant in class being explained, but I was lost when test time rolled around, and I scraped out a C- . Of course, I've learned a lot about how to study since freshman year, but I was still pumped when I realized that vet schools only require calc 1 at most. No need to bash my head against calc 2 a third time!

David, I hold a special place in the heart of my bottom for English classes. I've been putting off taking my advanced composition class, but next semester I'm biting the bullet and doing it.

 

[brwnIdprevetgal]

Inorganic Chemistry:

Organic Chemistry: 8

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 6

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

 

[TSUJC]

Inorganic Chemistry:

Organic Chemistry: 9

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 10

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5

Physics kicked my butt! I did awesome in Organic because it didn't require much math. Physics II was taken TWICE!😡

 

[LegallyPink]

Inorganic Chemistry:

Organic Chemistry: 8

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 6

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

Worse class of my LIFE....ick...so glad its over

 

[georgie339]

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[twelvetigers]

What is going on here?? 😕

The point, originally, was to choose the subject that you thought as the worst, take the most recent post, add one to the number following that subject (because you are one more person that thought it was the worst) and then post that.

Not pickin' on anyone, just pointing out how those numbers got there. 🙂

 

[georgie339]

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[1CellNtheSea]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 9

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 6

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

 

[justinpaws]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 10

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 6

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Although these last four are not prerequisites for all vet schools, I'll throw them in since many of us take them:

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 4

 

[invivovet]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 10

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 11

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5


I 😍 O. Chem...... HATED PHYSICS!!!

 

[Sognidoro]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 11

Genetics: 2

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5



Calculus is a close 2nd!! I chalk it all up to bad professors and TA's that were hard to understand.

 

[natalieises]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 11

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 1

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5


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Maybe this is just me, but I loved organic (i know it's disturbing!), but i had the worst time with genetics probably because we covered the ENTIRE book in one semester. I took it twice and I still feel like I learned few things. 😱

 

[OnceBitten]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 11

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5


I'm taking comparative vertebrate anatomy right now, and it wins just by shear volume of information. We just had a lab practical with 25 questions that tested us on 550+ terms. The next lecture exam is Monday. Mega sigh.

 

[lailanni]

I'm taking comparative vertebrate anatomy right now, and it wins just by shear volume of information. We just had a lab practical with 25 questions that tested us on 550+ terms. The next lecture exam is Monday. Mega sigh.

That's pretty much what you do in vet school. Except it gets a little uglier. (Last anatomy exam we had 50 lab questions with multiple parts, including radiographs and palpations). Plus they bring back material from past exams. Ugh.

I vote for physics. As much as I truly hated biochem (truly, truly hated) it actually made sense. Ochem made sense too, it was just a lot of work. Physics never made sense as hard as I tried. Physics is an evil bastard, and if it were ever incarnated into a real person I'd like nothing more than to give it a swift kick in the nether regions.


Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 12

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5

 

[lmscout]

Def. organic II!!! 😱 I think that I might end up doing really well in the course, but it is INCREDIBLY hard to reach that point. My professor has taught at the Air Force Academy and is super tough!! Yikes!!

 

[OnceBitten]

That's pretty much what you do in vet school. Except it gets a little uglier. (Last anatomy exam we had 50 lab questions with multiple parts, including radiographs and palpations). Plus they bring back material from past exams. Ugh.

Yikes. I'm definitely glad that I'm taking the class now, since I know anatomy in vet school will be even more of a kidney punch and at least I'll have a bit of a foundation in the subject, but I'll be happy to bid adieu to the topic for a little while when the semester ends LOL.

 

[StillDreaming]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 13

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5


Definitely Physics... all the other courses were hard but made sense... physics to me was just a buncch of equations and numbers and stupid circuits that i just didn't get... definitely the hardest class i have had to take.

 

[katryn]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 14

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5


Physics with the caviat of Electrical physics for me. Mechanical physics made perfect sense. Electrical was just backwards to me.

 

[cRose]

Physics with the caviat of Electrical physics for me. Mechanical physics made perfect sense. Electrical was just backwards to me.

I second that x infinity. I did pretty well in Physics I, which was all mechanical, but got a C+ in Physics II...I really felt like I understood the material going into the tests then somehow got everything backwards in my answers. Bad times.

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 11

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 15

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5

 

[Lechatnoir]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 12

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 15

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 5

 

[Bob2]

Inorganic Chemistry: 1

Organic Chemistry: 12

Biochemistry: 7

Microbiology: 1

Physics: 15

Genetics: 3

Biology: 2

Nutrition:

Anatomy: 2

Physiology:1

Calculus: 6

calculus was easily my least enjoyable class taken thus far. I used to really like math and i am pretty good at it. In first year some proffessors convinced me that i should be in enriched calculus......worst mistake of my undergrad. I had to work my butt off for an A- and i still didn't learn as much as the poeple in the regular class since i was soo paniced about not knowing the material.

On a side note i loved Organic chemistry. I have taken Organic chem 1,2,3 and 4 at my university aswell as medicinal chemistry which is basically Organic chem + biochem.

 

[Ninnerfish]

I'd vote, but it's impossible for me to say which one I hated the most - Ochem or physics. I'd say physics in terms of its difficulty + utter pointlessness, but then again Ochem hasn't really proven itself to be terribly useful either. And I may have blocked the horror that was Calculus from my conscious mind.

 

[twelvetigers]

Ninnerfish, I had a similar issue when deciding, but I chose Orgo. This was because, while physics felt oh-so-pointless and incomprehensible, once I grasped something, I understood it in practically any situation. That means, in other words, I learned it. In organic, I worked very hard to understand a situation. However, when a curveball was thrown or something as changed, it inevitably became a completely different animal. I could never actually follow where the problems would lead. This, for me, made it completely and unequivocally... a pain in my ass. It won my vote.

Interestingly enough, I'll be taking organic again this fall. I'm back, ready for round 2. Let's see how it goes. 🙂

 

[JKIM02]

Ninnerfish, I had a similar issue when deciding, but I chose Orgo. This was because, while physics felt oh-so-pointless and incomprehensible, once I grasped something, I understood it in practically any situation. That means, in other words, I learned it. In organic, I worked very hard to understand a situation. However, when a curveball was thrown or something as changed, it inevitably became a completely different animal. I could never actually follow where the problems would lead. This, for me, made it completely and unequivocally... a pain in my ass.

I totally freaking agree... physics makes noooo sense but when it did... it just did and it stuck.. on the other hand ochm makes sense (for the most part) but good ol' professors and their curve balls... ochm never made sense on exams for some reason...😕

Not in love with either but i probably dislike physics more ... based on subject matter not difficulty... they are both equally difficult..

 

[Thunderbunny]

I vote Physics *shudder*

Almost done with my first semester of it, and it is incredibly awful. I find myself asking "Why do I care?" over and over again. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do O-Chem for fun or anything, but physics is truly the stuff of nightmares.