Your Most Difficult Undergrad Course

[WalterSobchak]

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Physical Chemistry, no question.

 

[ouli]

Physical Chemistry, no question.

Process Control and Dynamics (chemical engineering)!!!!! very hard..

 

[Ben Weeks]

Bio 101. No joke. PChem is easier than this class.

Boy, I hope you're joking

 

[novawildcat]

Functional Analysis and Hilbert Space Theory
Mathematical logic and Godel's incompleteness theorems.

 

[chef_NU]

Don't ever take an advanced fluid mechanics course.

 

[carn311]

Multivariable...the first math class that had me up until 2:30 in the morning, visiting the professor at least 2X a week and still not really understanding jack.

Awesome avatar! 😀

I'm going to have to go with genetics...
The guys out to get premeds; always trying to recruit us into joining him in his "AMAZING research" (he works with yeast). What does he think testing us on material NOT in the book and NOT in his lectures and then raving about YEAST will draw us away from medicine!?! 😱

 

[ImmunoNut]

Literature and Science.

It was the most freaking insane class I ever took. I had to spend hours in the library looking at microfilm over the stupidest crap...ARRRG...I got an A but it was way more work than it was worth for a stupid 100 level class.....I don't want to talk about it anymore. 😡

 

[lattimer13]

calc II...by far

 

[javert]

Literature and Science.

It was the most freaking insane class I ever took. I had to spend hours in the library looking at microfilm over the stupidest crap...ARRRG...I got an A but it was way more work than it was worth for a stupid 100 level class.....I don't want to talk about it anymore. 😡

Are you an immunonut in the sense that you're pretty knowledgable on the subject? I

 

[MahlerROCKS]

A special class on the complete works of Cicero: I don't really have any major problems with Latin, but Cicero used a highly complicated grammar and clause structure that is incredibly difficult to follow and understand. THe only way to describe his style is as a combination of Faulkner, Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

 

[ClubberLang]

Calc I or Ancient Greek. And I am Greek.

 

[seadizzle]

I imagine pchem would be very challenging if you didn't have a significant amount of mathematical sophistication. A lot of the ideas with quantum mechanics, solving PDEs, eigenfunctions/vectors,basis sets, multiple integration, probability (expectation value) come from higher math than what is required (calc 2 or 3 depending on the school).

I took multivar, diffeq, linear algebra, abstract algebra (group theory), probability, before I took quantum and it makes the class a lot easier if you just have to learn the CHEMISTRY side of it and don't need to worry about the mathematical part. It's still very weird, but it's kinda a fun class when you see how all the math you've taken comes together.

Even though I've had some tough math courses, latin was the only course that kept me studying through the night because I was terrified I would not be able to translate anything on the test the next day.