My fellow college brothers. What's the hardest course we've taken so far?

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To keep it one hundred, you're about to laugh, but the hardest class I ever took was the last Spanish class I needed to fulfill my language requirement in college. Let me tell you why.

This is supposed to be some basic 200 hundred level shyt and my boy was like, "yo let's take this other one it's interesting and about South America." Turns out this women was used to teaching 600 level and shyt. She rolls through with a 600 level syllabus and we're all like :merchant:. We tell her we think she mixed them up, she says she'll fix it.

She comes back the next day with the exact same syllabus but with a lower course number. I was :damn: I don't know why my stubborn ass didn't leave this class. But this women had us reading straight up novels in complete spanish. 6 page essays with expectations of high-level spanish vocabulary. Documentaries and movies with no subtitles and no English version :damn:

Our first test literally the entire class but two people who were native speakers failed, and we all failed for different reasons. We failed because we didn't know what the question was asking us. My boy thought this women was hitch hiking, I thought it was about climbing a mountain, someone else thought it was a murder, shyt was rough :deadrose:

I had the class dying the last day of the final exam in the big lecture hall when I gave the teacher a hug and then threw my book in the air and did that heel click skip in the air and walked out the door. :whew: shyt was comedy had bad we lost. She would record our class conversations and play them back later at home to break it down and grade it there. One time me and my partner said fukk the subject and just started talking about the Soviet Union because we knew a few key words :dead:
 

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Nothing too hard, I'm honest enough to admit, I just didn't study...

But Idk how people view English as an easy major. I can attest to pulling all nighters trying to perfect essays...



Liberal arts majors are easier in the sense that they're easier to bullshyt not necessarily easier to get straight As in. Like you shouldn't be failing English on any level. If you get less than a C in English you fukked up.

Pretty much what @BarNone said. By the time you get into college, you should really have all the composition and grammar skills you need to do well in English classes. All you really learn in college that can be seen as the basics of the basics are some Comp/Rhet skills (which I'm currently teaching as a TA). Everything else depends on what you actually want to do with your degree (Technical writing, Critical Theory, more advanced Rhetoric, etc.).

But goddamn, sometimes I find kids that think that just because English is a more "subjective" discipline they can just write anything in any way and expect professors and TAs to accept it. I tell people all the time, you have to show profs that you actually put effort into formulating your thoughts and organizing them well in your work. And yet people get pissed when they're handed a paper back with a "D+" on it that basically shows them that we know they didn't consider the concept or work carefully, then wrote terribly on it.

With that said, most English courses are designed to be rigorous (at least in reading), but easily passable with a C at the very least. Even kids that weren't taught the basics well can get a C in an English course with some decent effort. If you can't do that, stay far, far away from English classes. And possibly anything that requires a lot of writing (Like History or Philosophy).

With that said...

Hardest Course: Symbolic Logic (professor didn't give a shyt for explaining anything at all. Just ran through his work and kept going. And I found that I absolutely hated the subject halfway through the course. Terrible, terrible stuff)

Honorable Mention: Health Care Policy and Economics. Esoteric minutiae, really. Did very well in the class, but I think I sold my books immediately afterward (and I usually keep all of my books). Never take something like this (or, say, Western European Political Systems) without actually having or developing some interest in it, or else it will be extremely boring and difficult.
 
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but thats engineering for ya :heh: :yeshrug:

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To keep it one hundred, you're about to laugh, but the hardest class I ever took was the last Spanish class I needed to fulfill my language requirement in college. Let me tell you why.

This is supposed to be some basic 200 hundred level shyt and my boy was like, "yo let's take this other one it's interesting and about South America." Turns out this women was used to teaching 600 level and shyt. She rolls through with a 600 level syllabus and we're all like :merchant:. We tell her we think she mixed them up, she says she'll fix it.

She comes back the next day with the exact same syllabus but with a lower course number. I was :damn: I don't know why my stubborn ass didn't leave this class. But this women had us reading straight up novels in complete spanish. 6 page essays with expectations of high-level spanish vocabulary. Documentaries and movies with no subtitles and no English version :damn:

Our first test literally the entire class but two people who were native speakers failed, and we all failed for different reasons. We failed because we didn't know what the question was asking us. My boy thought this women was hitch hiking, I thought it was about climbing a mountain, someone else thought it was a murder, shyt was rough :deadrose:

I had the class dying the last day of the final exam in the big lecture hall when I gave the teacher a hug and then threw my book in the ear and did that clicking heels shyt and walked out the door. :whew: shyt was comedy had bad we lost. She would record our class conversations and play them back later at home to break it down and grade it there. One time me and my partner said fukk the subject and just started talking about the Soviet Union because we knew a few key words :dead:

:russ:

My last French course in undergrad was almost exactly like this, for damn near the same reason (funnily enough, I'll occasionally sit in on the professor's grad level courses, and they're actually much easier, mostly due to the fact that she isn't attempting to load the class down with a bunch of French on a level they can't handle).

I knew it was going to be terrible when I got back a test with a 60 something and the girl next to me had a 45%. It was so bad that she had to issue partial retakes for all of the tests just so half the class wouldn't fail. :sadbron:

Of course, that was just more work on top of a shytstorm of assignments, quizzes, essays, and tests.
 

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Hardest class I ever took was physiology my senior year. It's basically a prep class to see if biology students are built for medical school. I got a B in it barely.
you better know your physio goddamn well for med school. Cuz thats the foundation of a lot of path and most of Pharm
 

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To keep it one hundred, you're about to laugh, but the hardest class I ever took was the last Spanish class I needed to fulfill my language requirement in college. Let me tell you why.

This is supposed to be some basic 200 hundred level shyt and my boy was like, "yo let's take this other one it's interesting and about South America." Turns out this women was used to teaching 600 level and shyt. She rolls through with a 600 level syllabus and we're all like :merchant:. We tell her we think she mixed them up, she says she'll fix it.

She comes back the next day with the exact same syllabus but with a lower course number. I was :damn: I don't know why my stubborn ass didn't leave this class. But this women had us reading straight up novels in complete spanish. 6 page essays with expectations of high-level spanish vocabulary. Documentaries and movies with no subtitles and no English version :damn:

Our first test literally the entire class but two people who were native speakers failed, and we all failed for different reasons. We failed because we didn't know what the question was asking us. My boy thought this women was hitch hiking, I thought it was about climbing a mountain, someone else thought it was a murder, shyt was rough :deadrose:

I had the class dying the last day of the final exam in the big lecture hall when I gave the teacher a hug and then threw my book in the air and did that heel click skip in the air and walked out the door. :whew: shyt was comedy had bad we lost. She would record our class conversations and play them back later at home to break it down and grade it there. One time me and my partner said fukk the subject and just started talking about the Soviet Union because we knew a few key words :dead:
lmao damn
 

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Liberal arts majors are easier in the sense that they're easier to bullshyt not necessarily easier to get straight As in. Like you shouldn't be failing English on any level. If you get less than a C in English you fukked up.

:wtf: kind of question is this.

I got A's in all my English courses. But I still had to bust my ass :whew: Harder than any other course. :pacspit:

I couldn't imagine majoring in it. Much respect to @TrueEpic08
 
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Genetics and Physics were the hardest courses I took. But I got my degree coming in a couple of weeks its all good
 

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Damn..I forgot another class.

I was a math wiz in HS. NEVER averaged under 95 in my whole life in math until my first semester I took Calculus I with an instructor from Switzerland teaching for the first time in the US. Dude was teaching us some upper level math, I have never seen in my life. Only 3 people passed, 2 dudes from India that already completed a lot of college in India before coming to the US and white dude that cheated with help from one of the Indian dudes. Later, got my grade wiped out after challenging the dean on the course curriculum. Next semester, took Calculus I again with a different professor and got over 120+ after the curve was applied.
 

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:wtf: kind of question is this.

I got A's in all my English courses. But I still had to bust my ass :whew: Harder than any other course. :pacspit:

I couldn't imagine majoring in it. Much respect to @TrueEpic08

I didn't ask a question :dwillhuh:

I was spitting general Higher Learning parables. :heh:
 
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