Hardest classes you've taken

[HolocaustDenier]

>There are people who think integrals are hard.

do this one

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

Color theory was hard to me because it took me until halfway until the class to realize what the fuck was going on. There were a lot of complex concepts that the professor clearly did not have the time to go over and it left most of the class super confused. Even she had trouble explaining them. Reading the text on your own didn't help too much either as the text was usually personal artist stuff. Meaning, the artist has this whole new language you had to figure out in order to know what the hell they were saying. Tried to ask a neighbor what was going on, but it was clear they had no idea either.

To add onto that our school had this rule in which you have the same amount of hours per homework assignment. A three hour class twice a week would have 6 hours of homework spread throughout. Most teachers would spread an assignment due in a week or month, but this teacher decided to give us homework every class day that was worth 6 hours not including class time.

To make it worse, she was super strict on how she wanted it done and she wouldn't tell you HOW she wanted it done until you failed the assignment. You could redo the assignments if you wanted thankfully, but between how much work she gave you, unless you were crazy, you would not have the time to redo every single one. So basically, each assignment had to be near perfect.

For example, a student had this grid as part of a color assignment, but because the grid she pasted on a paper was slightly off-center, she got C. She did everything else correctly including having the proper hue, value, and saturation but because she was so off-put by the centering, she marked her down to a C. This is despite telling us we had to paste our final work on a clean piece of paper. Also, you got points taken off if the paper had even the slightest scruff.

 

[MalWart]

I absolutely sucked in my Algebra classes, the cruel part about those courses is that half the stuff you're taught serves little-to-no purpose once you graduate.

 

[awoo]

do this one
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Fuck you for this. I put it into WolframAlpha Mathematica and it gave me something with incomplete gamma function. Edit: It probably does have a nice form.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Surprisingly criminal justice, because it was packed full of boring ass stats.

 

[millais]

Esoteric history classes like Colonial Latin America or History of Modern China are these for me, but in a more engaging kind of way if that means anything.

The more specialized upper level history courses are invariably filled with try-hard undergrads or grad students from the country being studied who already know the material backwards and forwards and just sign up for the easy A, so I sometimes felt it was a chore to get in a word during seminars and discussions. For me, history classes were always blow-off GPA boosters, but one time I almost got my ass kicked because I signed up for a Chinese political history seminar course that the professor repeatedly promised to teach in English, but after the three non-Chinese grad students dropped out a few weeks in, everybody spontaneously switched to Chinese for the rest of the semester, and suddenly I had to brush up real quick on the language. It wouldn't have been that bad but for the fact there were all of nine or ten people in the seminar, so it was painfully obvious that I was always having to ask for the English-translated primary source documents.

 

[GreenJacket]

Yeah, well you're bringing in factorials, and those are cheating.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

Community college courses Finite Math and Anatomy & physiology I and II.

May not impress you, but I did that shit at nearly 50 years old with a retard math brain of a mildly-raging alcoholic, and I got As.

That shit near to killed me.

 

[Slap47]

Esoteric history classes like Colonial Latin America or History of Modern China are these for me, but in a more engaging kind of way if that means anything.

I'm retarded at math but find these courses easy.

The math is abstract shit. History and politics is simply looking at people and understanding their motivations and personalities. You give states and organizations the same treatment as people, looking at their past experiences to see what made them what they are. It also helps that there is plenty of compelling narratives to pay attention to.

 

[Star Wormwood]

Color theory was hard to me because it took me until halfway until the class to realize what the fuck was going on. There were a lot of complex concepts that the professor clearly did not have the time to go over and it left most of the class super confused. Even she had trouble explaining them. Reading the text on your own didn't help too much either as the text was usually personal artist stuff. Meaning, the artist has this whole new language you had to figure out in order to know what the hell they were saying. Tried to ask a neighbor what was going on, but it was clear they had no idea either.

To add onto that our school had this rule in which you have the same amount of hours per homework assignment. A three hour class twice a week would have 6 hours of homework spread throughout. Most teachers would spread an assignment due in a week or month, but this teacher decided to give us homework every class day that was worth 6 hours not including class time.

To make it worse, she was super strict on how she wanted it done and she wouldn't tell you HOW she wanted it done until you failed the assignment. You could redo the assignments if you wanted thankfully, but between how much work she gave you, unless you were crazy, you would not have the time to redo every single one. So basically, each assignment had to be near perfect.

For example, a student had this grid as part of a color assignment, but because the grid she pasted on a paper was slightly off-center, she got C. She did everything else correctly including having the proper hue, value, and saturation but because she was so off-put by the centering, she marked her down to a C. This is despite telling us we had to paste our final work on a clean piece of paper. Also, you got points taken off if the paper had even the slightest scruff.

Art classes in general are kinda bullshit when it comes to grading. In my experience the difficulty of the class was determined by how many decades its been since the teacher wrecked their brains with lsd.

 

[Dr. Kaufman]

The baptism of fire that is autism on the internet.

In all seriousness, quantum psychics is a mindfuck.

 

[Gordon Cole]

I'm exceptional at math but find these courses easy.

The math is abstract shit. History and politics is simply looking at people and understanding their motivations and personalities. You give states and organizations the same treatment as people, looking at their past experiences to see what made them what they are. It also helps that there is plenty of compelling narratives to pay attention to.

I'm the same way, thank god my classroom was in a computer room.

 

[HolocaustDenier]

Yeah, well you're bringing in factorials, and those are cheating.

the factorial is the trivial part

Spoiler: Solution :powerlevel::powerlevel:

We define

, then we find:

Next, we use integration by parts:

now we divide by

summing k's we obtain a telescopic sum

replacing n+ 1 for n

Finally we make m=n

To calculate the limit of this sum . we notice that it is equal to the probability that a Poisson random variable X, of n parameters would be less than n:

A known property of the Poisson variable is that the sum of v.a. of Poisson is another Poisson variable with parameter equal to the sum of the parameters, therefore the distribution of X is equivalent to the distribution of

Where Xi are idd poisson of parameter 1

By the central limit theorem, this converges to the probability that a normal is lower than 0 is 1/2. Thus:

you cant do this using a computer program, you have to think "outside of the box".
you have to use other topics apart from the "calculist aproximist stolz-cesarist" frame of mind.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

The working

 

[Red Hood]

I hate to say it, but College Algebra. I failed miserably and was just unable to hack it. Although my University's tutorial/student help center sucked so much that I don't feel wholly at fault. It was understaffed and the staff they had could rarely explain concepts well. And my professor just couldn't give a shit and covered math for maybe 5 of the 50 minutes of class.

Safe to say STEM wasn't for me, unfortunately.

Old English was a pain (mostly due to my functional but not technical knowledge of grammar and cases). Norse Mythology was probably harder in my mind because I thought I needed to know every story in the Eddas inside and out. And also, my instructor had a very soft, calming icelandic accented voice for a class at 9am. Made me want to go right back to sleep.

 

[RadicalCentrist]

the factorial is the trivial part

Spoiler: Solution :powerlevel::powerlevel:

We define

, then we find:

Next, we use integration by parts:

now we divide by

summing k's we obtain a telescopic sum

replacing n+ 1 for n

Finally we make m=n

To calculate the limit of this sum . we notice that it is equal to the probability that a Poisson random variable X, of n parameters would be less than n:

A known property of the Poisson variable is that the sum of v.a. of Poisson is another Poisson variable with parameter equal to the sum of the parameters, therefore the distribution of X is equivalent to the distribution of

Where Xi are idd poisson of parameter 1

By the central limit theorem, this converges to the probability that a normal is lower than 0 is 1/2. Thus:

you cant do this using a computer program, you have to think "outside of the box".
you have to use other topics apart from the "calculist aproximist stolz-cesarist" frame of mind.

your images are dead links my man
please fix

 

[Dizzydent]

I've been to a couple colleges and I'm going back in September. I used to think accounting and math were stupid difficult but I came out with A''s in both although I had no idea what I was doing and probably remember even less now.

Best course: dynamic presentations. Literally just learning to stand in front of a full lecture hall and talk about whatever subject you wanted for 20 minutes with a slapped together PowerPoint. Loved that class it was like no effort to just sperg about something you're passionate about or found interesting.

But it was statistics that killed me. Fucking Z-scores and all this other random bullshit and needing companion graphs to do even a simple equation. I missed one class in stats and when I came back i knew it was all over. Probably gotta take it again in September since I never completed it. Fuck it's going to suck just as bad since I don't remember shit.

 

[hambeerlyingnreed]

Math - but that's probably because I'm legit LD with numbers. Notice I just said "math" and not "calc" or anything like that. I never took anything beyond super basic stuff, and even for that I had a tutor and had to go to summer school.

 

[dunbrine47]

Some of the "harder" classes I took:
Remedial Hell Algebra and Lab: Main teacher sucked, took 50 min to show us one problem. Lab teacher was this lady way past her prime who did not communicate with the main teacher, making this feel like a whole other class instead of a extension. I only passed thanks to some great outside help (that I ditched class for a lot to partake in).

Academic Research and Writing (A.K.A Comp 2): Course was themed on horror and fairytales. The way the Professor expected all the students be be big spergs in the material made the class seem like it should have been some sort of major elective, not a gen ed course. You could get on her level but she would make you feel stupid in the process.

Geography and World Issues: Required class only held online. Write a cited research paper due every two weeks.

Stats: Too many rules to remember about certain things and weather issues during the semester did not help.

Now the rest of these hard courses were upper level courses in my major:

Concepts in Transport/Travel: The difficulty in this class came the papers and the main project. The main project was to develop and budget a mock itinerary for a class trip to Europe. It was fun trying to gather all the information needed, the no reply e-mails and getting dogpiled on Trip Advisor for asking a question. Eventually stuff did get done and did give me some nice background information about Switzerland and some insight on what our professor was doing with our upcoming trip.

Accounting For Hospitality/Financial management: The last two classes in the required accounting trilogy. Professor was not a bad guy, just not good at explaining some things. The way he taught this stuff is that all of us will suck at this for the rest of our lives, we needed to understand this and that we should respect those who are going to be doing this stuff for us in our careers. Also solve for Net Present Value.

Spoiler: Side tangent

Fun fact about this class. Because I'm a nerd these two bimbos in the class think I knew the material inside and out and asked me to help them with it. Meanwhile I'm like bitches please I don't know anything about this. Now let me work backwards to see how I solved the problem in a fever dream like state of stress hmm.

Food and Beverage Management: One of two courses considered the hardest in the program. In a nutshell the course is a business plan to redevelop one of the campus cafeterias into a new eating establishment. Personally the thing that tripped me up was the burden of proof for the project was not properly explained so I was stressing over stuff I should have not. The other problem was that the professor was in constant conflict between the way she wanted to teach the course and the way the department was to have the course taught. This was proven when I took her Event Planning class, she was a lot better in that one.

And now the Overused Souls joke course of my major: Property Management. It's like F&B management but in a group setting. Take some riverfront property on the Hudson, make a redevelopment plan (Design, Construction, Finance, Tenants and Exit Strategy). It was hard but it was a interesting hard. It also helped that I understood that when in doubt, find some stats and estimate. We got it done and the feeling of relief when your presentation is done was the best.

Spoiler: More side tangents.

There was a group on presentation day who came into class 30 min late. They had to complete more of there project then what's to be expected at 11th hour. Also the professor for Property Management was great. He told us so many stories in his career that I should one day retell in the Retail Horrors thread

 

[Sperglord Dante]

Fluid Mechanics is basically black magic.

I found the theoretical stuff fucking confusing and the applied stuff pretty straightforward.

It really is. Other than structural-related courses (which are all more of less equally hard) the applied courses are easier than its theoretical predecessors. Going from fluid dynamics to sanitary engineering is just laughable.