What is or was your Least Favorite Class?

My perspective about school has changed as I have gotten older where I actually do enjoy a lot of the classes I take. However, there still are certain times when I find myself absolutely hating certain classes. During my undergrad I hated an abundance of classes to include Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, Philosophy, etc.

Currently I would say my least favorite class is Managerial Econ. What classes do/did you guys hate the most?

 

I took this business ethics class in college that was required for all business majors. It was the professors first semester teaching it and he was a philosophy professor and didn't realize that it was an ethics class and not a philosophy course. It was incredibly difficult due to literally none of the 200 students having any background knowledge about philosophy. It wasn't until about half way through the semester that he realized not one of us knew what was going on and curved the class grades up to make sure 50%-60% of the class didn't fail.

Probably one of my least favorite classes outside of the ones where the teachers have their own political agendas.

 

Some random sociology class with a socialist professor. Actually, most of my classes were like that..even intermediate level econ and calc classes had some sort of political agenda. Looking back it was such a bullshit education - fuck extremely liberal New England schools

 

It's really hard to hate any of my classes being that I got to sit next to hot chicks that would want you as a study partner because you did your homework.

They also snapped some interesting photos too. College was good to me.

 

Business Communication - horribly impractical. Provided no skills and had a lot of group work with stupid people Modern Physics - The most difficult course I took. Quantum physics, time bending, 6-dimensional space. Didn't understand any of it.

 

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Least useful: Organization theory. Haven't found any use for it yet, was also incredibly dry. The material could have been fitted into a 6 page pamphlet, but somehow they managed to be verbose and superfluous enough to print a 500 page book. You also had to buy the piece of shit book to get some access code, and to top it all, the test questions were just copied sentences from the book, where you had to fill in missing words. You literally could not pass the tests unless you had the exact book used.

Hardest: Advanced Electromagnetism, and the following Microwave Techniques class. Taught by same terrible professor, and a extremely talented TA. The professor would write equations up and down at a record pace, utter som words, and continue. The TA handed out monstrous problem sets, seemingly forgetting that we were not Ph.D students, or seasoned professionals just touching up on the theory. The material itself was quit interesting, as far as Electrical Engineering goes. But I ended up absolutely loathing the classes due to how time consuming and difficult they were. I'm not kidding when I say that you spent 10 times more energy and time on the problem sets, than compared to other classes.

Driest: Measure theory or theoretical statistics. Just bone dry material...but then again, I'm not a Mathematician or Statistician.

 

I've taken all of these classes throughout undergrad / grad school and I agree with all of it. Except measure theory - if you get into the more rigorous stuff it can become pretty mind-blowing.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods."
 

Introduction to Astronomy - Class was supposed to be for non-Science majors and I thought it would be interesting to learn about Planets and the universe as a whole.

Instead it was a physics and math intensive course where we were asked to calculate stellar distances, parsecs between stars, and parallax angles among other things that were completely useless and had little to do with the broad scope of the class.

Didn't retain anything and struggled through a class where I quickly lost interest. Would not recommend if you're at UT.

 

I had an astronomy class that I thought was going to be fun but also sucked. It was in our planetarium with this awesome star projector that I thought we were going to use all the time but only used once. The math portion of the class was completely unnecessary, and we also had a project no one gave a shit about where we had to take pictures of the sunset and moon under very specific circumstances. Would no recommend.

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Philosophy was by far the worst. The only kid who passed the midterm was the guy who turned in the response sheet blank. I had so much anxiety during the final because I wasn't sure if I was suppose turn it in blank or actually write a response.

 

I disliked most classes I took simply because I prefer learning outside of the constrained, lecture-driven style of teaching at universities. I may have been interested in the material, I just didn't want to learn about it in a college setting (especially when your GPA is on the line.)

That being said, an Anthropology class I took about human habitats takes the cake for being the worst. It was an interesting premise on the surface, but the exams had random questions, the papers were a waste of time, and we were required to learn minute details that didn't at all advance my knowledge (seems to be the typical story with many college courses if you aren't particular in picking a good professor.)

 

LOL and SB'd.

GoldJacketGreenJacket this is the problem with art as its taught in classrooms today. You have truly good teachers who understand and can see past the bullshit stick figure drawing that depicts pain and suffering and your pieces which truly means something personal to you.

I will say taking Art History was very useful because you start to appreciate the effort and thought process behind various artworks and start to notice things your eyes would normally gloss over.

 

I absolutely agree with you. While I dislike the subjective nature of a random art class, I can absolutely appreciate the skills and passion of a real artist - whatever the medium.

Seriously though I didn't deserve that C. (yes I did.)

 

Most Useful: Econometrics. Just helped me to think on a different level. Least Useful: Intro to Finance. Literally went over comparable companies analysis for 4 weeks. Could have learned the entire class in 3 sessions. Most Difficult: Econometrics. The statistics behind the subject were hard to wrap my head around, took me a while to feel comfortable in the subject. Least Favorite: Chemistry. Prof didn't speak english.

 
DrGonzo:
Most Useful: Econometrics. Just helped me to think on a different level. Least Useful: Intro to Finance. Literally went over comparable companies analysis for 4 weeks. Could have learned the entire class in 3 sessions. Most Difficult: Econometrics. The statistics behind the subject were hard to wrap my head around, took me a while to feel comfortable in the subject. Least Favorite: Chemistry. Prof didn't speak english.

Econometrics is F-ing hard, but I learned a lot. I'd give it a strong recommend as a class, but anyone going in should know that it's going to be a b----. Believe it or not, I flunked theology, because I couldn't be bothered, and I also sucked at calc.

Managerial Econ was a 400-level joke, but all but four of my friends had graduated and we got broken into four person teams for a group project where we ran a company in a computer sim. I got stuck with three exchange students who could barely speak English, but I figured out how to break the sim to my benefit. Our company ended up worth more than all the others combined, with ridiculous FCF. We ended the class with a proposal to the grad school as to why our management team should stay on. Everyone else was in suits. I showed up in red chinos, a white polo and a blue suede jacket, and proposed a hostile takeover of their group's company. (all cash) I think the prof. and the grad team group wanted to flunk me right there, but I pointed out that I had a 90% CAGR, when nobody else had broken 20%. I got an A-

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

Social Equality and Ethics - it was not required but I had to take a class from Social studies perspective and due to me fucking around all the other classes got filled so I got stuck with this one.

It had it's moments through as I did get to go HAM on some folks we would now call SJW and tell them to fuck off, but other than that it was shit. To put it into perspective, I once was in a bad crash where I got thrown clear out of the vehicle and almost drowned. That is a beautiful memory compared to this class.

"I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. " -GG
 

Criminology: Thought what the hell and signed up for this as an easy 2xx level Sociology gen ed course. Walk in and it's some dude in his early 40's who had previously been an incarcerated prisoner, then ended up getting a PHD. I was like okay, thats interesting. He probably has some cool perspectives on this kind of stuff.

Open the syllabus and its like 10 SJW cuck books and half of them are written by his friends. When he'd show up he'd just bitch about Trump the whole time (mind you this was the semester of the 2016 election), make us watch videos on political shit with no relevance to course material, NEVER showed up to class and wouldn't even email us to tell us not to come, so we'd be waiting in class, dick-in-hand for like 30 mins wondering if this guy was a no-show again or what. I shit you not, this dude once came in with open-toed shoes & toenail polish, sunglasses, and yoga pants on.

Ended up never doing anything constructive in the class and certainly didn't follow the syllabus in the slightest. Turned in one paper with little instruction or answering of my emails and received a 50 on it!

So with about 5 weeks left in the semester and having 1 grade, I walk into the class and the Sociology department chair was there and just said something along the lines of "yeah, that guys definitely not gonna be teaching here anymore. Don't worry, we'll make sure you all do really well. Sorry for that".

Ended up getting some easy as balls professor to come in and finish the class off. Got like 3 easy grades and finished with an A. Returned almost all textbooks from original professor on Amazon for refund. Truly a unique experience, not sure how often stuff like that happens.

 

Intro to Philosophy - What a load of absolute garbage. It's just a bunch of morons with career peak earnings for 50k jerking each other off with "hot" (read: ice cold) takes on what a guy wrote 500 years ago that's already been interpreted by thousands. Found zero practical application for this stuff and glad I'll never have to subject my time to that ever again

 

I loved my gen ed requirements. I especially enjoyed US History, federal govt, and comp I. I also took Chemistry and enjoyed it a lot, despite hating it in HS. The professors were great and I was motivated in the beginning.

Now, I fucking hate all of my classes. I am really dreading Business Ethics. It looks like a ton of work. 

 

In Calculus 1, my professor's husband decided to die in Germany mid-semester. She decided to not let anyone know that she flew to Germany for 8 weeks. It took a week for the math department to figure this out, and then we would get a different random math professor teaching different units of the class every week. I ended up skipping class and just working through the textbook and showing up on exam dates. 

The hardest class I took as an undergrad was a special topics course designed for econ PhDs. Economic analysis specializing in big data and ArcGIS. Basically, I had to be a proficient Python user in the first 2 weeks of class, and by week 4 you had to be proficient in ArcGIS and ArcMap (The shittiest software in existence). 25% of the class dropped in the first two weeks. My dumbass decided to stay in the course. It was the first time the professor taught the class so his lectures were shit. Assigned weekly problem sets that took on average 15 hours to complete in addition to 2-4 hours of weekly readings. It was the hardest 3 credits I've ever earned. 

 

700 level Neuroscience class:

“Neuroimaging in Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.” I thought it would be interesting, but was more boring than interesting. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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