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Old 05-15-2015, 05:46 PM  
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The Hardest Class You Ever Had
I just finished up my coursework for the semester. While Organic I was a comparative breeze, Organic II was a bitch. Honestly, the tests were more of a monster than the actual course load.

Here were the grade breakdowns (all tests were MC):

80-100-A
62-79-B
46-61: C
40-46: D

While the baseline material itself wasn't exceptionally difficult, there were so many exceptions to the rules, and exceptions to exceptions, that the tests ended up as absolute minefields.

With that said, I've heard even worse things about Biochem, and I'm sure that those of you with or pursuing advanced Math/Science degrees have had nightmare courses as well.

What class was it that kicked your ass the hardest?
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Old 05-15-2015, 06:41 PM   #31
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At the risk of being crass, we knew in my undergrad program that you avoided the Chinese profs and instructors at all costs. You could kind of halfway understand the Indian ones, but with the Chinese you were at risk of literally not understanding a word. It surprised me that some of the students never figured that out.
It's just a matter of survival, especially in advanced classes like that. I do not envy being part of a search committee in advanced math courses. Really, those professors should almost never be hired as instructional faculty, because if you can't communicate, how can you teach, but they open themselves up to massive discrimination lawsuits if you do that. However, one of the things students evaluate instructors on (it's on the actual forms) is the clarity of their speaking and ease of communication.
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Old 05-15-2015, 06:49 PM   #32
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I have a Poli Sci degree so I can't say any class was all that tough.

If forced to choose, I'd probably say Freshman Comp or Politics and Civil Rights.

I wasn't a particularly good writer out of high school and still hate writing papers to this day, so Comp was tough. Politics and Civil Rights had interesting material so it wasn't hard but we had two separate 10 page research papers that semester. That was some bullshit.
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Old 05-15-2015, 06:51 PM   #33
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As an aside, statistics online was some bullshit as well. I can't count the number of times I would submit the answer to the wrong decimal point (I'd answer .0034 but they were looking for .003) and get absolutely no credit for it. The instructions were often unclear and despite knowing the material and getting the "right" answer, I'd end up with no credit whatsoever. **** online math classes.
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Calculus based physics was pretty mind numbing
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As an aside, statistics online was some bullshit as well. I can't count the number of times I would submit the answer to the wrong decimal point (I'd answer .0034 but they were looking for .003) and get absolutely no credit for it. The instructions were often unclear and despite knowing the material and getting the "right" answer, I'd end up with no credit whatsoever. **** online math classes.
Sig figs, bruh. That did piss me off at first in gen Chem.
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Biological statistics was stupid, like just dumb stupid
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I hate Gen Chem 2, specifically the lab. Kinetics just was blah.

Added to the fact that I had to be on the course for golf practice after noon at that time, so I had the lab at 7 30 am.
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As an aside, statistics online was some bullshit as well. I can't count the number of times I would submit the answer to the wrong decimal point (I'd answer .0034 but they were looking for .003) and get absolutely no credit for it. The instructions were often unclear and despite knowing the material and getting the "right" answer, I'd end up with no credit whatsoever. **** online math classes.
I took stats with a TI-89 which apparently rounds differently than the 83/84 which was the "required" calculator and I missed points on tests because my calculator would round differently and the teacher was grading based on the results from his 83. Whatever, still finished with a 95%.
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Hamas you'll find this out 10 times over, but therapeutics was ****ing awful
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Hamas you'll find this out 10 times over, but therapeutics was ****ing awful
WTF is therapeutics??? Is that a pharmacology class?
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How drugs work and what they actually do.

And there's a metric **** ton of drugs
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I hate Gen Chem 2, specifically the lab. Kinetics just was blah.

Added to the fact that I had to be on the course for golf practice after noon at that time, so I had the lab at 7 30 am.
I didn't mind the Gem Chem 2 labs, although kinetics was no fun, especially the occasions when we had to use the quadratic formula.

I'm certainly not looking forward to a seven hour Pharmacotherapy III class, though.
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How drugs work and what they actually do.

And there's a metric **** ton of drugs
Gotcha. That's my mom and grandpas fields. (both pharmacists) Threw me off because I had no idea Hamas was doing a medical type degree. Shows how much I pay attention.
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WTF is therapeutics??? Is that a pharmacology class?
And I just had a semester of it, basically, dental related drugs and the basic level of other drugs used everyday that I need to be able to recognize.

the best man in my wedding was in pharmacy school at the same time I was in dental school and seeing some of the shit they had to do, ugh.
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