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Did you ever take a class you took in hopes of breezing right through it, but it unexpectedly kicked your butt?
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"Understanding the International Experience"
Having lived abroad, I thought it'd be easy. Especially given a lot of it was "based on personal experiences". Then we had a 40-page ethnography we had to do based on interviews with people from a culture with which we were NOT familiar, take "intercultural competency" tests, critique videos and media portrayals of various groups, and act as our own sovereign nations for an entire day, resulting in massive headaches.
Did I mention the 50+ pages of reading per week? Yeah. I ended up loving that class, but it was crazy difficult. That's what I get for taking 400-level classes and thinking they should be "easy".
Having lived abroad, I thought it'd be easy. Especially given a lot of it was "based on personal experiences". Then we had a 40-page ethnography we had to do based on interviews with people from a culture with which we were NOT familiar, take "intercultural competency" tests, critique videos and media portrayals of various groups, and act as our own sovereign nations for an entire day, resulting in massive headaches.
Did I mention the 50+ pages of reading per week? Yeah. I ended up loving that class, but it was crazy difficult. That's what I get for taking 400-level classes and thinking they should be "easy".
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I took this Volcanoes class that I thought would be easy. The notes/slides were really basic but his test questions were hecka hard. Ended up with a 3.3, which isn't terrible but for a "fun elective" class that I thought I'd 4.0 I really regretted taking it
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my fine arts requirement "american music". he knew we were all in there to fulfill our requirement, but acted like we were music history majors.
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I signed up for Real Analysis II. I didn't think I would breeze through it, but I also didn't think it would be too difficult after enduring what was supposed to be the harder of the two (Real Analysis I). Well, the professor decided to stuff all of the topics typically covered in Real Analysis II into just one class period. The resulting course turned into a pseudo grad level special topics investigation >> killed all of my sleep and sanity for a bit. This supposedly decent course ended up kicking me in the pants hard. 300-level course my butt! I learned quite a bit though, even if my GPA suffered.
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I took Shakespeare thinking that it would be fun to read some of his plays and get credit for it. At worst, I thought that I would have to write something along the lines of a 'compare and contrast' essay between two plays. Then our first test came along, and I knew I had bombed it, because I couldn't even answer some of the questions (which were about Shakespeare's history, upbringing, etc., among other difficult questions). I turned in my test, and received my graded first paper back with something like a B-/C+ on it (the prompt was to analyze how Shakespeare generates comedy in three of his plays). When I got home, I looked the class up and found out that it was the Shakespeare class for English majors, and was probably one of their 2 or 3 most difficult classes. In the end, I withdrew so I could focus on something else.
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It sucks because you take the time to study hard for other needed courses and hope to just breeze through some electives.
I'm going to be honest, I took a fast track Speech course, everything was easy until the test came....Everything in the course was unorganized and we ended up taking 3 tests the last week of the semester...
I'm going to be honest, I took a fast track Speech course, everything was easy until the test came....Everything in the course was unorganized and we ended up taking 3 tests the last week of the semester...
Music and Human Imagination! I needed a random class to fulfill an honors requirement and chose this one thinking it would be something I could BS through. Definitely not. It required listening to many hours of Baroque period classical music, being able to identify short clips from the middle of the pieces for the tests, and recalling information about the origin/composer of the piece. Anyway, it is the only class I ever changed to pass/fail lol, which is ridiculous with the courseload and amount of hours I took.
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Ahh i took a humanities course, very similar. Well, the only difference it was 10X easier hah, and we were constantly listening to baroque, classical, and romantic music etc. It was more boring than anything.
I would get a B on a test, with no effort and my professor would give me like a 96. That's how easy the course was.
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Lol nice
I knew someone who was a freshman and she wanted to drop a course. She asked her professor if she could and she said yes. So she thought the professor would do it for her, she ended up getting an F because she never dropped it hah.
I also took a music class that I thought was going to be really easy, but kicked my butt. I guess profs in music classes automatically assume everybody is a music major or musically gifted, neither of which I was.
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It didn't kick my butt, but I took Gender in America because I thought it would be super easy. The professor ended up being awful and the class was the worst I've ever taken.
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Classic Roman Literature. It was an intro-level classics class, but it was pretty tough and took a ton of work. It turned out to be one of my favorite courses in all of college, but it was a ball-buster, to be sure.
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It involved lots of negotiations with other sovereign nations and ended up escalating into an arms race. I don't even know how it happened. If I remember correctly, the day ended when Ethanland bombed all the other nations using wadded up balls of paper with "I TOLD YOU WE WERE ENRICHING OUR URANIUM, B*TCHES!" and declared himself ruler of the world.
It was an unusual course.
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Beginning Latin. The professor enjoyed making people cry... literally cry. Every day he pimped us like the nastiest attending you can think of and should someone get an answer wrong, he would keep asking you over and over again until you were broken. One girl burst into tears and ran out of the room. And should you show in some way that what he did affected you, he was like a friggin shark with a wounded seal. I dropped it like a hot potato after one week of that crap. The interesting thing about it was that it was only offered every two to four years. I guess he even scared the administration.
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lmao..
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God forbid you did, because then you would end up the target of his wrath. Lol It was so bad that students actually spoke up and asked him to leave certain shall we say tenderhearted people alone already... When they were sobbing at their desks during his questioning sessions. It was like watching someone kicking a puppy. :S
Golf. We were graded on the quality of our swing- something very subjective, and in this case, f****g hard to improve. The instructor was a douche too. A failed Pro-golfer. Damn that class sucked bawls.
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Spanish. You know, since I speak it and all, I figured I would breeze right through to 202 and get the easy credits. My god I have never seen so much busy work in my entire life- workbooks and videos and papers, oh my!
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lamo. It would be fun to see.
