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most difficult undergrad course you took?

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  1. TracyMcCrazyeye

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    Wow, I second that. I had Professor Morrison for my human situation class and it was BRUTAL. Your grade is based on essays alone after two full semesters of human situation I never figured out what they wanted in those essays. That class ended up being my worst grade of all 4 years of my undergraduate even while double majoring.
     
  2. mclawson

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    Organic Chemistry was probably the hardest, but it wasn't really that bad. I see patterns pretty well and it made sense to me. I couldn't understand why others struggled so mightily with it.
     
  3. Pizza_Da_Hut

    Pizza_Da_Hut I put on pants for this?

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    Thank you, it had to be said. I love Ochem, and I don't understand why people think it's back breaking, if you do the work, it's really easy.
     
  4. xhanif143x

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    Intermediate Accounting was tough.
     
  5. Tuan

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    I feel ya bro. People wont understand what a hard class is until they take P-chem. I have spoken to numerous chemistry and biology professors, and they have all told me that P-chem is the hardest undergrad class offered at any university.
     
  6. Isabel

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    No kidding. The whole P-Chem experience was brutal. Other close runners-up include: Engineering Computation, Circuits, and Waves and Optics (stuff I took or attempted before realizing that 1) it was impossible, and 2) it wasn't even interesting, and switched to chemistry).

    When I teach O-Chem, I try to be gentle with it, and don't require rote memorization of mechanisms. (of course, I usually do this at the community college level; I'm not liking the atmosphere at universities where the teachers are busy competing with each other to show off while most students are studying their tails off but not truly learning a thing) Like someone said above, notice the patterns. Which atom is going to "want" the electrons more... what types of bonds are made to be broken...
     
  7. MexAmercnMoose

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    Statistics or Thermodynamics....it's a combo of hating the material and not understanding some of the more complicated parts of it
     
  8. BetterThanI

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    Bowling.....at 8am on the other town. I slept in a lot that semester.
     
  9. Konquest123

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    BME 348 Systems Analysis In Biomedical Engineering

    Worst class EVER
     
  10. ths balla

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    Accounting at A&M cant figure that stuff out to save my life :mad:
     
  11. Rule0001

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    General Chemistry I and II. Just very difficult. Chemistry was a tough concept to wrap my head around. High school chemistry was tough too.

    A&P I and II were also fairly difficult.
     
  12. JeopardE

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    I actually found the Human Situation to be relatively easy, although I didn't care much for having to read all those books (Herodotus' History might be the worst piece of written literature in the history of mankind; attempting to actually get interested in it is like smashing your head against stucco).
     
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    ADVANCED PHYSICS LEVEL C

    I had dudes in Columbia who looked like this...
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    and this...
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    I kid you not.

    Half of the class was from Europe. They really know their physics there.

    I ended up getting a C

    :( :( :(

    dumbSAGE
     
  14. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Partial Differential Equations. Didn't help that my prof was bad, but I just never understood how we could spend so much time on equations that don't really have solutions. ODE was so easy by comparison.

    And I 2nd the mention of statistical/thermal. Very disjointed, complex material, usually.
     
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    Abstract Algebra.
     
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    Stats class with Staci Smith at the main UH campus. I needed a 55.00% to pass. I got a 55.35%.
     
  18. Rocket1

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    Tax Accounting

    I received a bachelor degree in Finance.
     
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    LMAO, I hated her.
     
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    I went to the University of Arizona.

    I didn't mean to imply that EE is an easy major. I just think that how difficult a major is depends entirely on the person. EE and physics were much easier majors for me than Spanish would have been, for example.
     

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