What class is driving you crazy this quarter/semester?

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For me, it's physical chem (1 semester for biochem majors) :scared:

I loved thermo, but quantum is absolutely killing me right now.

What is your "please shoot me now" class right now?
 
As a 1st year, I don't have any classes driving me crazy at the moment, although my required writing class is annoying just because of the sheer amount of reading we have to do.

80 pages in one day? Do professors assume that we're all going to procrastinate anyways and assign it at the last minute? :|

But ouch, Pchem. I hope I never have to see that, haha.
 
Hemorrage said:
Quantum theory and applications
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Dear god.. that is my nightmare

Aerus said:
As a 1st year, I don't have any classes driving me crazy at the moment, although my required writing class is annoying just because of the sheer amount of reading we have to do.

80 pages in one day? Do professors assume that we're all going to procrastinate anyways and assign it at the last minute? :|

But ouch, Pchem. I hope I never have to see that, haha.
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I definitely do not miss GE/writing classes! I much prefer my 3-4 science classes each semester.
 
Ethics of research.

No. it's not hard. It's just as boring as... eh, I don't even have an adequate metaphor to explain it...

-_-
 
Lets see, genetic, cell biology and environmental chemistry. Boring professors and lectures are dull and boring. Most of the time, half the class were falling asleep including me. Oh, forgot to mention organic chemistry 1 since I hate organic chemistry.
 
yellowperil said:
Lets see, genetic, cell biology and environmental chemistry. Boring professors and lectures are dull and boring. Most of the time, half the class were falling asleep including me. Oh, forgot to mention organic chemistry 1 since I hate organic chemistry.
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environmental chemistry? Sounds fun 👎laugh:

I feel your pain with genetics though. I have that this semester as well. I like the material when I study it on my own, but I just can't seem to stay awake during lecture 😴
 
Last test I took for the gen bio class I'm in right now was on biodiversity. At this point I'm seeing free-living turbellarians in my sleep. I know more about Phylum Phaeophyta than I ever wanted to know. I killed myself for this test, got it back today, and got 100% - the last test I had an 84 on - and I CANNOT WAIT until my mind goes back to normal. As it is, when I'm starting to fall asleep my mind starts drifting to cladograms and the life cycle of Phylum Pteridophyta.

Aahahhgahghagh
 
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yellowperil said:
Lets see, genetic, cell biology and environmental chemistry. Boring professors and lectures are dull and boring. Most of the time, half the class were falling asleep including me. Oh, forgot to mention organic chemistry 1 since I hate organic chemistry.
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So, in other words, everything?
 
English 101...
I want to medical school but I just can't finish this English prerequisite!


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Biology... so far i haven't gotten any grades back in the lab part but the lecture part is going well.
 
Stats. Its actually the easiest subject of all my classes but my professor is a horrendous teacher.
 
American history. Only three tests, a lot of information. Unnecessary time spent on a nonprereq, nonmajor class.
 
Biochem.

Material itself isn't bad, and I know I shouldn't be complaining because it'll come 5x faster and with more information next year.

But being a senior and having an acceptance already makes it damn near impossible to motivate myself to memorize every little detail about all your lovely metabolic pathways...
 
A lower division social science, to complete my last lower div. requirement. It was supposed to be my easy class, but it's awful! So boring! The professor, (who is still a PhD student who has never taught a class), jam packs each slide with a bunch of irrelevant, minute details, expects you to know all of it, and midterm, final, two papers, 5 quizzes, and a debate all for only 100 points! I actually have that midterm today :/

I'm enjoying all my upper div. classes, (biochem, genetics, infectious disease), way more. Thank God I don't have to take any more social science classes! Just 5 more weeks of hell!!!!
 
When I was pre-med, I know that organic initially drove me crazy. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing until I had my sudden "aha!" moment. Then the class was actually awesome.
 
Molecular genetics...

Since I already know the material it's boring me to tears. Though I got bit hard on the first exam because apparently my prof. loves factiods... Who cares how many bp/min an e.coli polymerase can do? Stupid waste of brain space.
 
A terrible freshman history course...🙁
 
Conservation Bio course. Super easy topic horrible test format. Its one if those A, B or C and none or all the above tests. Plus there aren't many things to improve your grade on.
 
All of them. The classes i'm taking are all required for me to finish my degree and I honestly hate all of them. The material is dry and uninteresting. Half of the time the professor(s) are just bragging about their own research (which I don't care for at all) and the other half it's material I've learned in other classes. I just want to finish this god forsaken semester and start next semester where I can take classes that actually interest me.
 
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Well all my classes....

but if I had to choose- Linear Algebra.
 
The structure of my biochem course is killing me. The material itself isn't bad, but with two 30 question exams comprising your grade with no curve to speak of (for now), makes it difficult. To only be allowed to miss 2 questions on 14 chapters of material to pull an A (and not an A-) will be the 4.0 killer.

But I smile when I think that I could be in Pchem. Or an upper level engineering/physics/math course. Forget that.
 
For me, Its easily ecology and orgo. For ecology to have to use calculus and advanced stat analysis to determine population growths and competition. It so dry and is not relevant at all. Unnecessarily difficult with MC questions that are A,B,C, D all or the above, or A and B, or None of the above 🙁 . And orgo is very interesting but my god is it time consuming.
 
Within my concentration... Grad Immunology. Not because it isn't interesting, but because it's taught by four different professors, and it's almost like I have to study for each of their sets of material in a different way.

Outside my concentration... Social and Behavioral Aspects of Global Health. We have a giant group project worth 50% of our grade that is eating my free time.
 
I am taking bio101, che101, and biostat, all I can say is that there is no organization in my school therefore grades suffer a bit. Each class has a website, the book has a website service, labs have their website, and then there are the tons of emails you receive daily that just clutter the inbox. Sooner or later you miss work simply because you can't keep up with the calendar.

Biostatistics class seems to be a new program that just started in my school since the teacher literally teaches things that we literally don't need to know and then quizzes us on something else. I took regular stats and A's without even lifting the book or studying no so much here.
 
Counseling skills Lab, it's absolutely not difficult and revolves around you being trained in how to do counseling. However the class is filled with so much busy work and my lecturer is such an asshat. Oh and he's also pretty much absurd with grading, he grades pretty much based on how the paper makes him feel, not based on any objective set of scoring or anything. And his tests, jesus, he tells you to read 200 pages, and then asks you a question about a supporting citation and what it looked into, because I honestly care about the supporting citation for the main point of the page was in anyway important or relevant for understanding the concepts or theoretical background.

I'd honestly rather take organic chemistry again.
 
Biochem, my professor is nit picky about every little thing, and the amount of memorization needed on top of that makes it annoying.
 
LaurenMarie said:
For me, it's physical chem (1 semester for biochem majors) :scared:

I loved thermo, but quantum is absolutely killing me right now.

What is your "please shoot me now" class right now?
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I loved pchem. It was crazy difficult but still fun when things worked. I was actually going to do that as a PhD if medicine didn't work out.

In UG I always had a problem with anything that was overly subjective. Bleh
 
Actually, those intro to university courses at my college are a waste of time, ie why this college is good and your major is useful... Academic subjects aren't too bad
 
400 level math class that asks us to write prove ancient mathematical theorems. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a textbook, but it's like a history of math book where there's no actual teaching. I really have no idea how to do 99% of the homework with extensive Googling.
 
I'm in P Chem and Analytical Chem labs right now... writing those lab reports is such a time suck... ~40 pages every 1-2 weeks.

P Chem II is pretty miserable as well... half the time I feel like the professor is just making up random stuff when he's writing on the board lol. Quizzes aren't graded with partial credit either which drives me crazy since they're only 1 question so it's not hard to get 0s. Homework isn't graded with partial credit either and we're lucky if one question matches up with what we've been talking about in lecture. Luckily I have a strong A on the exams and I've been excused from a good number of quizzes because of interviews.
 
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