What's the hardest class you've ever taken?

Since most people are about to start or have started going back to school, I thought I'd make this topic in honor of the new academic year. So, in your history of academia what's been the class that you personally found to be the most difficult?

For me that class was organic chemistry. The amount of information you had to memorize and understand in that class was monumental, to say nothing of how deeply intricate the problems could get at times.

capitalism versus Communism was a b%$# i went on to kill communists in nam so kinda ironic

Both organic and inorganic chemistry were a pain. I'd have to say AP physics in h.s.

I'm taking some honors classes next year and that will be my first experience with something higher up than regular classes. The hardest class I have taken is Biology and I got an A in it....I've gotten an A on all of my classes....all of my life.... judog1

I've never really taken any really hard classes.:?

Actually I did have a really hard history course. It was basic, but the teacher always covered more "in-depth" topics than what we were tested on. I did well on most of the tests, but the class average was less than 50%. And it was freshman year of highschool. :o

But I do have AP Chemistry in a couple weeks. Everyone else going into it already took the basic chemistry course, except me and one other kid. I only know the symbols of about five elements. This is going to be fun.

I'm presuming one of the two math courses this year, and then next year it might be one of those two.
That, or Chemestry or Physics, as I've only done small units of them, not complete clas$es before.

Edit: What the heck are these "AP _______" cla$ses? Is it just advanced courses?
(If it is, imagine an "advanced" before the clas$es I meantioned; they're all advanced...)

first year chem in university. i hated it :(JPOBS

Believe me, that's only the tip of the iceberg as far as chemistry goes. Orgo makes gen chem look like middle school chemistry. Biochem makes orgo look like gen chem. And Physical chemistry is what convinces chemistry majors that there is no god. Or so I hear, I've yet to take biochem (or any other chem above orgo) and I'm not in much of a hurry :P

AS level Physics or Latin. It's hard to choose between those two.

am i the only one here old enuf to say that Communism versus capitalism was hard

am i the only one here old enuf to say that Communism versus capitalism was hard

ferrettozerg

Quantum Mechanics.

• There were only 2 students in the class.
• In order to do my homework, I first had to spend a weekend in the library teaching myself some math I hadn't seen before.
• All the exams were face-to-face with the prof. (answer questions verbally, solve equations while he watched, etc.)

AP Calculus. I fail at math :( Bruin4ev3r1520

Quantum Mechanics.

• There were only 2 students in the class.
• In order to do my homework, I first had to spend a weekend in the library teaching myself some math I hadn't seen before.
• All the exams were face-to-face with the prof. (answer questions verbally, solve equations while he watched, etc.)

Oleg_Huzwog

lol wow. That's intense. What'd you get in that class?

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am i the only one here old enuf to say that Communism versus capitalism was hard

Luncbox1

yes and you had to pass it to graduate

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Quantum Mechanics.

• There were only 2 students in the class.
• In order to do my homework, I first had to spend a weekend in the library teaching myself some math I hadn't seen before.
• All the exams were face-to-face with the prof. (answer questions verbally, solve equations while he watched, etc.)

gameguy6700

lol wow. That's intense. What'd you get in that class?

It's probably Software Development. I dropped it a year ago, and I'm taking it again this semester. We have to jump into learning Java, although it is pretty similar to C++ which we've had 3 prior courses in. There's no partial credit except for the final project. You know the debuggers that you use in programs to check your code for syntax and stuff? Our final project is to program our own debugger. VERY few people succesfully finish it lol.

Just plain Chemistry. Closest I ever came to failing a class in high school. It was the only class I ever had lower than a C in. Ever. Passed with a 62 I believe. It was harder then any of the advanced/college courses I took too. More than half the class actually did fail and a bunch of parents got pissed. That teacher was a monster.

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am i the only one here old enuf to say that Communism versus capitalism was hard

ferrettozerg

yes and you had to pass it to graduate

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[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]

Quantum Mechanics.

• There were only 2 students in the class.
• In order to do my homework, I first had to spend a weekend in the library teaching myself some math I hadn't seen before.
• All the exams were face-to-face with the prof. (answer questions verbally, solve equations while he watched, etc.)

Luncbox1

lol wow. That's intense. What'd you get in that class?

Heh. If he could of, he would of... but the dean says letter grades must be given. So I received an A-. I flubbed a few too many times with the funky math to get a full A.

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[QUOTE="Luncbox1"] "old enough"? I'm 19 and I took a unit on that stuff in high school. They still teach it. wait... did they have an entire class on it back in the day or something? :shock:Luncbox1

yes and you had to pass it to graduate

dont remember but they probably made the reds sound pretty evil

Calculus 2 when I was an engineering major.

Geometry. :x

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[QUOTE="judog1"]I'm taking some honors classes next year and that will be my first experience with something higher up than regular classes. The hardest class I have taken is Biology and I got an A in it....I've gotten an A on all of my classes....all of my life.... Luncbox1

Probably O-chem. After this semester it's most likely going to be biochem.

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Some required more work than others (papers, projects, etc.)

But none were "hard"...

That I finished? Honors Calc III at Georgia Tech. That I dropped? Intro to Ordinary Partial Differential Equations, a grad level course that I approached with unwarranted hubris my sophomore year. I thought, "Partial differential equations are easy, I aced DiffEqs with a 98 average, so this should be cake." The level of rigor was quite humbling.xaos

With words like Intro and Ordinary, how tough can it be?

[QUOTE="xaos"]That I finished? Honors Calc III at Georgia Tech. That I dropped? Intro to Ordinary Partial Differential Equations, a grad level course that I approached with unwarranted hubris my sophomore year. I thought, "Partial differential equations are easy, I aced DiffEqs with a 98 average, so this should be cake." The level of rigor was quite humbling.Oleg_Huzwog

With words like Intro and Ordinary, how tough can it be?

Hermeneutics. And because I know most of you will have no idea what that means, I shall define it for you. Hermeneutics is the art of interpreting Scripture.mindstorm

[QUOTE="xaos"]That I finished? Honors Calc III at Georgia Tech. That I dropped? Intro to Ordinary Partial Differential Equations, a grad level course that I approached with unwarranted hubris my sophomore year. I thought, "Partial differential equations are easy, I aced DiffEqs with a 98 average, so this should be cake." The level of rigor was quite humbling.Oleg_Huzwog

With words like Intro and Ordinary, how tough can it be?

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[QUOTE="xaos"]That I finished? Honors Calc III at Georgia Tech. That I dropped? Intro to Ordinary Partial Differential Equations, a grad level course that I approached with unwarranted hubris my sophomore year. I thought, "Partial differential equations are easy, I aced DiffEqs with a 98 average, so this should be cake." The level of rigor was quite humbling.xaos

With words like Intro and Ordinary, how tough can it be?

So you're a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech? A lot of my friends did the GTREP program in Savannah, where I went to school (AASU), I ended up changing majors :P

[QUOTE="mindstorm"]Hermeneutics. And because I know most of you will have no idea what that means, I shall define it for you. Hermeneutics is the art of interpreting Scripture.xaos

Anything with Dannete Coughlin (teacher)honestly turns into the hardest class ever and I become overly stressed about it and it becomes harder still.