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05-15-2015, 09:15 PM | #94 |
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I wasn't always the most serious student as an undergrad.
I remember Organic Chem II pretty much like you do: a bunch of general rules with all kinds of exceptions. I would try to cram 2 days before the test and managed a C. But I felt like if I put more time into it I could have earned an A. It wasn't impenetrable. The second semester of Physical Chemistry was the closest I ever came to dropping a course. The professor was Korean and a little bit difficult to understand, the book wasn't all that useful, and the material was difficult. I managed a C in that course. But I learned a lot of the material in that class in later classes and it isn't that bad. I took a transport class as an under grad using Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot. The professor was really good, the textbook is considered a classic (but very dense!), and I actually tried to do well in the class. The thing was that I would work for hours on the homework without making much progress, come to class the next day, and the professor would invoke some advanced math (like Green's function), that we hadn't had yet. My feeling is that most material can be learned if you've mastered all the the material leading up to it, you are motivated enough to learn it, and it is taught in an accessible way. Any time I have ran into difficulty it is because one or more of those three conditions have not been satisfied. |
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05-15-2015, 09:20 PM | #95 |
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Calc II, Gen Physics, and Gen Chem II.
Calc II is the only class I've dropped in the past three years I've been attending college. Absolute ball buster if you suck at integration like I do. I enjoyed the concepts in Physics a lot but word problems coupled with numbers was never really my strong suit. Chem wasn't a hard subject but the teacher was a total stuck up ****. Her exams often times made me wish my father had a vasectomy after he got married.
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05-15-2015, 09:28 PM | #96 |
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OMFG Still have an F on the transcript from that. I switched to education just after that.
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Toughest class I had to deal with was Marketing strategy. It wasn't hard. But the first 8 weeks we did NOTHING. The second 8 weeks we had to submit a strategy paper on a case Study every week. That wouldn't have been a problem at all if I wasn't working full time and taking a full time load. It didn't help I would go get ****ing smashed each week. Toughest class to grasp was art history. I was a dumb freshman. I read the degree requirements. You had to take 2 of 3 of music exploration, theater appreciation, and music appreciation. But I read in the fine print that art history could be exchanged for one of those. So my dumbass self says to myself, "art history has to be better than art appreciation." What my worthless **** of an advisor didn't tell me was that it was a core class for the art program. Think Accounting I vs Personal Finance. No remember that I have an accountants brain. Art just doesn't fit. The teacher was good. It was interesting. But man. The art concepts were way out of what I could grasp. I ended up just writing down everything the instructor said studied my balls off. Either class was very hard, but I was way too busy for one and the other was like a fish trying to fly. |
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05-15-2015, 09:44 PM | #98 |
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Graduated with a computer science major and math minor in December. I got D's in two classes: Calc III and Accounting 1. Calc III was pretty tough and my teacher wasn't the best... how I got a D in Accounting 1 I'll never understand. It was my sophomore year and apparently I had no motivation at all, cause I remember never going to class and never knowing anything on the tests lol
I took Calc III again my last semester and passed it pretty easily, probably thanks to a nice curve (got that in a lot of classes). I'd consider that the most frustrating because while some of my programming classes were tough, I knew they'd matter. Calc III was hard because I couldn't understand how it really relates to my major and what I'll do in the real world. |
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Same. Luckily I hit the wall junior year of high school. I had planned on being an engineer until I almost flunked physics. I passed only because I got an A on the final, which was a New York State Regents exam. It proved to be easy because it was all stuff the teacher taught the first month of the class. After that, he basically taught a college-level physics class.
I found the concepts fascinating, but I flat out couldn't do the math. I was like a drowning man. So naturally I became a journalist instead. |
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05-15-2015, 09:57 PM | #100 |
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A class in political philosophy where the entire semester was focused on Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit. Consistently referenced as one of the hardest books to read on the planet. Sentences that were 12 pages long. This is the book that can cause brain tumors from strain.
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BS Biochem here. Biochemistry wasn't bad. O Chem II was definitely one of my harder courses.
But, hardest course, hands down, was Physical Chemistry. I consider myself to be VERY good at physics, but I struggled mightily with this course. I studied more for this course than any other course throughout my undergraduate (by a lot) and only got a C. The professor was an absolute terror, though. |
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I've always been somewhat this way, but I very much deal in the practical. I can do abstract if it can be evaluated in practice. I'm far worse now that I'm self employed. If it can't help me make a decision, get it the **** out of my face. I just don't have any use for the abstract. |
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