Favorite College Class?
What was that one college class or professor that you took that changed your life forever and you are still grateful for today?
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None so far, but then again I am just a junior. I will say my internship in my sophomore year. Definitely a great learning experience, developed a strong initiative.
A compiler class led to an interesting research assistant job that led to pretty much every job since then.
It got me excited about a segment of the field and for the first time, I could imagine specializing in something.
I honestly only enjoyed the 2 English courses I had to take.
What I enjoyed even more were the internships I had.
Not sure I can state a favorite college class. I would say I am grateful for most of the professors I had the opportunity to learn from (Like my Macroeconomics Teacher who asked what I was doing as a Pol. Sci Major which ultimately lead me to exploring different majors until I landed in the Business Umbrella).
Possibly my advanced mechanics class in sophomore year, as it was the first time I became quite fluent in using complicated math as a language. Also the language I'm currently learning - I really want to become fluent.
That's tough, I've had a couple...
-US History (to 1865 and from 1865) -enjoyed Phil Logic -modern US Lit (Hemingway is the shiznit) -Stats
The two greatest classes I have taken so far was a Microeconomics class taught by this angry british woman who also led the Libertarian club on campus and hated everything about the government.
And a logic class taught by a 50 year old musician that lived in poverty but read 15 books a week.
principles of macroeconomics
metaphysics and epistemology
nothing much to do with finance but that shit was interesting as fuck. changed the way i think about what we take for granted as knowledge
Intro to Black Theatre.
In no specific order:
1) Stats 2) Macro/Micro Econ 3) Eng Lit (cuz it was just so dam chill).
I took a guitar class as an elective - loads of fun. The one song all the male students just had to try and master was Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven.
Radical Political Thought and Calc II.
Had two classes that were basically a toss up for my favorite
Intro to Biblical Literature - Not a religious guy or much of a literature guy (agnostic / math major) but my professor was one of the most passionate, sharpest, and knowledgeable people I have ever met. Took the class on recommendations of friends who had taken it and I am so glad I did. We basically started at Genesis and read the stories, wrote reviews and learned everything about the historical context of the Bible, inconsistencies between versions, possible different translations of words/meaning of the translations. It was nothing short of amazing how much the prof knew, dude knew the ancient Hebrew/Greek and all of the historical context, it was honestly one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. I have never been so excited to sit down with a book and read it and write my review/answer homework questions. Also, the prof never revealed his religious beliefs to the class but did share very personal family stories. I think not telling us what his religious beliefs were went a long way to maintaining his credibility/neutrality in class discussions.
Math capstone course - Dynamical Systems - Capstone course for Mathematics degree taught by an amazing professor who was very instrumental to the development of the field. The guy obviously knew his stuff, could communicate it clearly and was passionate about teaching it to others. There were no tests in the course, only homework and a final project and your grade was mostly based on attendance and class participation. It seemed like he mostly just cared about people being engaged in his lectures, which was not hard to do, as he was hilarious as he was brilliant. Course introduced me to python programming as it was necessary to use recursion, although it was not listed as a prereq, for which I am very grateful. It was both challenging and enlightening and I'm really glad I got to be a part of it.
So those are the two. Very different but really the common element was having an incredibly smart professor who loved to teach. A lot of the time you get professors who are either too smart for their own good (have a tough time communicating with us mortals) or really only are there for the research (don't want to be teaching us mortals), these were not two of them.
Took a behavioral economics class that was focused on crime taught by Steven Levitt. Class was nothing short of fascinating.
Negotiations Game Theory Auction Pricing/Theory
ucmaroon47,
I'm incredibly jealous. I listen to the podcast and he seems like kind of a douche...is this a front or is he really just a douche?
supplyside,
I think it is more of a front - although his raw intelligence and the way he carries himself when he speaks could definitely be construed as the latter. he also loves to discredit and essentially shit on others in the field whose work he deems stupid. however, some of the research he did and just the general framework he lays out to the class is fascinating. the class was a single problem set (albeit it took 2 weeks to complete) and a single test too - so that was nice!
if you enjoy econ... i've attached a link to view the PSET and one paper...
http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=ge1200fd6cbcecadd999377878e5c1f0c3…
Principles of Golf. I really went to school because I had to, not because I wanted to. I will take the same approach to an MBA. It is a necessary evil in life.
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