Which prereq is/was your least favorite?

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The worst prerequisite course is...

  • Biology

    Votes: 22 15.9%

  • General Chemistry

    Votes: 34 24.6%

  • Organic Chemistry

    Votes: 38 27.5%

  • Physics

    Votes: 44 31.9%
  • Total voters
    138
Interestingly enough, my medical school (Michigan State) has actually done away with physics as a prerequisite in favor of requiring two upper level science classes. Cheers, I say! The physics actually used in medicine is so basic that requiring math ability up to college algebra is sufficient. Granted, the MCAT people haven't figured this out yet.
 
I actually liked all of them... too hard to decide 🙁
 
ThaliaNox said:
Interestingly enough, my medical school (Michigan State) has actually done away with physics as a prerequisite in favor of requiring two upper level science classes. Cheers, I say! The physics actually used in medicine is so basic that requiring math ability up to college algebra is sufficient. Granted, the MCAT people haven't figured this out yet.
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Interesting! And yes, I agree.
 
Definitely organic chemistry. I wasn't a fan of physics past first quarter either though. Newtonian mechanics is interesting, but beyond that I had no interest. I foolishly took the honors organic chemistry section all year and didn't realize until the following year how over the top it was in comparison to the regular class. On the bright side, I didn't have to do any o chem studying for the MCAT.
 
you assume everyone has taken the "basic" prereqs and not used AP exam+upper level classes in that department
 
I would seriously take 12 biology classes if it meant I could skip out on a General Chemistry class. But to be honest I find all of my prereqs interesting I just have to work really, really hard to master chemistry 🙁
 
I've never taken o-chem, but I think i'll like it since its very abstract and visualized. But I have taken physics in high school and chem and biology in college. I personally find physics to be pointless, really pointless in life. Why the hell do i need to know how fast something is going and its energy. Biology is most easy to me. I personally was alright with chem 1, chem 2 is a bitch.
So on my scale without ochem
from most liked to least.
Bio, chem, physics.
 
i don't think any of the pre-reqs were particularly terrible experiences, but god damn was gen chem boring. physics was the most straight forward, bio was interesting half the time, and o chem was easy but was time consuming.

if we're talking labs, then that's a different story, and o chem wins by a landslide. boring + time consuming = least favorite college course.
 
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Orgo, hands down. What a nightmare. The rest of the prereqs were cake in comparison.
 
Easily General Chemistry.

What a nightmare. Exam averages in the 30s.

This class single-handedly axed ~50% of the bio majors.
 
I voted Organic.

My levels of difficulty with the prereqs (in decreasing order) were:

Organic 1, Organic 2, Physics 2, Chem 2, Bio 1, Physics 1, Chem 1, Bio 2
 
Meh, I thought gen bio was the worst. Evolution and botany were probably THE most boring subjects I could have studied throughout college itself.
 
Sometimes I wonder if I just got a really easy OChem class. I thought it was fun and made sense. Definitely interesting. The class had a pretty reasonable grade distribution, not to high or low I think. I watched an ochem lecture from yale and went whaaaaat? but then I realized it was probably just one of those professors who lectures about stuff unrelated to the tests.
 
Zona Pellucida said:
Easily General Chemistry.

What a nightmare. Exam averages in the 30s.

This class single-handedly axed ~50% of the bio majors.
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Ugh that sounds like a nightmare, lol...I don't really believe schools should have weed out classes but I know my gen chem had me looking into law school for the first couple weeks, lol.
 
From most diffcult to easiest classes for me:

Physics 1 - Chem 1 - Chem 2 - Ochem 2 - Physics 2 - Ochem 1- Bio 2- Bio 1
 
In increasing order....


Chemistry I, Chemistry II, Physics II, Physics I, Organic I, Biology II, Biology I.


1st Exam in organic chemistry II tomorrow I'll let you know where it falls after I am done taking the class.
 
None of the above. The maths you have to take to take the sciences on the other hand....
 
serenade said:
I've never taken o-chem, but I think i'll like it since its very abstract and visualized. But I have taken physics in high school and chem and biology in college. I personally find physics to be pointless, really pointless in life. Why the hell do i need to know how fast something is going and its energy. Biology is most easy to me. I personally was alright with chem 1, chem 2 is a bitch.
So on my scale without ochem
from most liked to least.
Bio, chem, physics.
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I think you're just scientifically challenged. Of those sciences, physics is the most fundamental in terms of its explicating power, where as chemistry though powerful is basically derivative of physics (the forces of electromagnetism and quantum effects), and then biology is chemistry of organisms, because chemical reactions drive life.
I don't mean to insult chemistry or biology: both are very complex and powerful sciences, but really physics is the most fundamental and closest to nature in terms of it delving into the most primal reason for why things happen. So, don't insult physics because that is just ignorant.
 
FloatOn said:
Down with Physics II!
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Word. E&M 👎 👎

That's what gave Physics my vote. The rest of the course I didn't mind, and I don't know if this is typical of the curriculum but our prof saved Optics until after E&M to give us a break.
O-Chem was a beast at the time, but looking back, I've retained a lot more of it than I thought and it seems so much easier in retrospect.
 
phyzicz

just not my thing

organic on the other hand is an academic gift from the gods. if you dislike it that's like spitting in the face of your creator. organic is the best thing ever.
 
lorenzomicron said:
I think you're just scientifically challenged. Of those sciences, physics is the most fundamental in terms of its explicating power, where as chemistry though powerful is basically derivative of physics (the forces of electromagnetism and quantum effects), and then biology is chemistry of organisms, because chemical reactions drive life.
I don't mean to insult chemistry or biology: both are very complex and powerful sciences, but really physics is the most fundamental and closest to nature in terms of it delving into the most primal reason for why things happen. So, don't insult physics because that is just ignorant.
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Geekchick921 said:
Are you agreeing with her or giving her opinion a thumbs down?
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No, I totally agreed with her. I think physics II can't be learned in 1 semester. It's a bunch of different concepts that can only be learned well if a full course is devoted to each. Physics I, on the other hand, is all closely interrelated.
 
ishchayill said:
No, I totally agreed with her. I think physics II can't be learned in 1 semester. It's a bunch of different concepts that can only be learned well if a full course is devoted to each. Physics I, on the other hand, is all closely interrelated.
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I'm inclined to agree with you, though more than one semester of the material in Physics II makes me want to hurl.
 
Organic👍👍👍 without a doubt

Bio was just mindless memorization, as a friend of mines bio prof put it "any ***** can memorize"
 
Oddly enough, Organic Chem was my FAVORITE prereq. Loved all of it.
 
While I was going through it, I thought parts of organic were okay, but some were awful. Some were even kind of cool. In retrospect, pretty much all of it sucked horribly except the very bare essentials (Sn and E reactions, mostly) which are neat in theory but useless to me in practice.
 
JoshUNCW said:
Oddly enough, Organic Chem was my FAVORITE prereq. Loved all of it.
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Yes, mine too!

Geekchick921 said:
Not all schools require it, and it could have been stat, calc, more advanced calc, etc., so I left it out.
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I thought math was pretty much a prereq? Stat, calc, whatever. As long you do some form math.

Other than math, I liked physics least but that doesn't say much since I actually liked it quite a bit.
 
lorenzomicron said:
I think you're just scientifically challenged. Of those sciences, physics is the most fundamental in terms of its explicating power, where as chemistry though powerful is basically derivative of physics (the forces of electromagnetism and quantum effects), and then biology is chemistry of organisms, because chemical reactions drive life.
I don't mean to insult chemistry or biology: both are very complex and powerful sciences, but really physics is the most fundamental and closest to nature in terms of it delving into the most primal reason for why things happen. So, don't insult physics because that is just ignorant.
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What are you? The defender of physics and all its virtues? Read my lips I've made A's in all my pre-reqs, doesn't mean that i enjoy those classes. Physics is important, however how much is actually involved in biochem? I'd probably say that very little physics is that important to know in it. Face it physics is just boring plug and chug. Btw no need to call me scientifically challenged displacing aggression upon me wont solve your problems.
 
worst to best: physics, gchem, ochem, bio.
 
General Chemistry > Math > Physics > Organic Chemistry >> Biology
 
Zona Pellucida said:
Easily General Chemistry.

What a nightmare. Exam averages in the 30s.

This class single-handedly axed ~50% of the bio majors.
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I agree. General Chemistry was definitely my least favorite by far. I loved Organic Chemistry and Physics!
 
I'm just a second semester freshman so I only took Gen Chem I so far, and in the process of Gen Chem II and Bio II (Bio I and II aren't connected at my university so I opted to take II first since the better professor teaches in the spring). I loved Gen Chem I since it was all concepts. Gen Chem II sucks, since its mostly math-based (And I despise math). I'm indifferent to Bio. I feel like I may enjoy O-chem, so long as it isn't anything like Gen Chem II. I'm dreading Physics.
 
I would vote for organic. However, it made me a much better studier. Before organic, I tended to waste a lot of time and study the fat of the subject matter.
 
Isn't biochemistry a prereq for some schools, if so I vote for that monstrosity of a class.

I actually enjoyed physics, and for all the long nights and stress that OChem gave me, at least the labs were fun. 😀
 
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