Worst College Class You've Ever Taken?

[Xiomera]

This thread is for all of you to share your worst college classes and vent your frustrations.

Possible topics include:

- Terrible Professors
- Boring course material
- Stupid methods of grading / evaluating class performance
- And any other reasons that made a class hell

Fire Away!

[Turtlepower]

FRE 111: My teacher was Russian whose 1st language was Russian, 2nd was French, third was Italian (or German) and fourth was English. She gave me an incomplete in the class, which I tried to get changed several times after completing all the necessary work, but she never changed it. The incomplete eventually turned into an E, so I had to retake the course, which I got an A in.

Also, she called me a "Rude American".

[Xiomera]

I'm in a really, really bad Political Science (PS 306) class right now. I signed up for it because it was a special topics class that was advertised as an analysis of the November election and predicting the outcomes. As it turns out, the class is nothing like that. The election is discussed, but not as the focus of the class. Instead, we simply read and analyze 30+ page articles in old political science journals in the form of stupid PDF files. The professor makes us print them out and bring them to class. No laptops allowed for more convenient viewing and savings on paper/ink. We discuss political theories on voting behavior and analyze why Americans vote the way they do.

And the conclusion of every article is that Americans are stupid and only vote based on things like whether they think the little icon of a donkey or elephant is cuter, or because people like Oprah or Sylvester Stallone said to vote for a candidate. Talk about political cynicism.

And now, I have a hellacious exam set for tomorrow that I've been studying my ass off for. I basically have to re-read all of the 20 or so articles from this semester and know them front to back with every miniscule detail accounted for.

What a stupid class. And to think it isn't even a class I'm taking for my major or minor. I just thought it'd be interesting and I needed another course for the semester . . .

Lame.

[Twiddler]

My Calc II class last semester. It was horrible. The material was boring (to me, I'm not a fan of math), the professor was the worst I'd ever had and the grading was bogus even though I got a B. I don't need to elaborate on the material but as for the professor, he was probably about 65 and would spend half of the class lecturing on mathematicians of the past. He also had hand writing that was unreadable and hand wrote his exams (which were incredibly difficult and often contained stuff we hadn't learned yet) so half of the challenge of taking an exam was figuring out what he wrote. As for grading, I got a 15% on the first exam and that was our only grade until a week before the drop date (which was about 2-3 months in) but then since nearly everyone (who was still in the class) was failing the class, he decided to give us all B's for the time-being. Oh well, I'm done with math. [/rant]

[Bruce Banner]

Almost all political science courses will try to avoid current elections and such.

[Xiomera]

Almost all political science courses will try to avoid current elections and such.

I would agree, but the class was advertised as dealing with the current election. This is a class offered only for this semester and never to be offered again.

It doesn't help that my professor only has us read the articles that were written by people she either is good friends with, or articles she absolutely hates and proceeds to remind us of how much she personally disagrees with the author's conclusion, despite what we may think.

[Bruce Banner]

I would agree, but the class was advertised as dealing with the current election.

Ah, this is warranted criticism then.


It doesn't help that my professor only has us read the articles that were written by people she either is good friends with, or articles she absolutely hates and proceeds to remind us of how much she personally disagrees with the author's conclusion, despite what we may think.

Wow.

[awfullyquiet]

My Differential Equations class was the absolute worst.

My professor hated me and TRIED to make me fail... of which i dropped the class and took it not at my school the next year. I hope he got hit by a truck.

[Turtlepower]

Anyone else hate teachers that make you buy books that they wrote? I feel why the hell do I need to come to class if you will just teach me exactly word-for-word what you wrote down.

I took the worst class ever here:

http://www.realisticromance.com/awards.html

I mean, yeah I got an A+ in the class, but she is seriously mentally ******** and would show the endings of about 5 different movies during class.

[Brent]

LING 209 and LING 307

Both are linguistics classes (required for major) and both are taught by the worst instructor I have ever dealt with. I cant even think where to start. In fact, doing so makes my head hurt.

[Sniper]

Any class that forces me to go. If I don't want to go, that should be my choice.

[Geo]

I mainly disliked a class when I thought the professor was an idiot and/or useless. And I had such a teacher a few times, usually fitting the profile of both characteristics. Moreso in some introductory requisite fluff that had to be taken, I found.

[iowatreat54]

Almost all political science courses will try to avoid current elections and such.

this is generally true, most have you study past elections, theories, events, etc. until you take a class specifically about current events and then you are supposed to apply that stuff, but my current American Foreign Policy class we have to write basically our final paper on foreign policy of the two candidates applying what we learn in class, so that's cool

but I also have a poly sci class that is completely different than advertised, but the teacher is awesome, but I understand where Xio is coming from

the 3 worst classes I've taken are, in order: 1. Stats for Business 2. Macroeconomics 3. Microeconomics

Stats for Business was just boring, the teacher was terrible and taught us nothing, and made the class ridiculously hard...the Econ classes just had terrible teachers that were on power trips and refused to help students because they were working on their Masters or something else

[KCJ58]

The Journalism class I'm taking now, she's a ***** and it's the hardest class I've ever taken

[I am the beast]

Women's Studies 101. 'Nuff said.

[Sniper]

The Journalism class I'm taking now, she's a ***** and it's the hardest class I've ever taken

Where do you go and what class is it?

[Turtlepower]

The Journalism class I'm taking now, she's a ***** and it's the hardest class I've ever taken

Journalism classes are hit or miss because every teacher expects something different. It gets sort of annoying when you're a journalism major.

[themaninblack]

The Communication class I took last semester was dreadful. I got a B in the class because I went like 10 times out of the probably 30 or so classes. Supposedly, the attendance policy would have given me an F but he didn't seem to care. He was just the worst teacher I have ever had and what he taught us about public speaking was so irrelevant and unnecessary that I just felt the need to show up when I would have to present. I mean, how do you really give a quiz every single week about speaking? I guess to make sure we are reading the book but it was just lame as hell.

[Dr. Gonzo]

The Communication class I took last semester was dreadful. I got a B in the class because I went like 10 times out of the probably 30 or so classes. Supposedly, the attendance policy would have given me an F but he didn't seem to care. He was just the worst teacher I have ever had and what he taught us about public speaking was so irrelevant and unnecessary that I just felt the need to show up when I would have to present. I mean, how do you really give a quiz every single week about speaking? I guess to make sure we are reading the book but it was just lame as hell.

I just dropped my COMM class because it was easily the worst class I have ever been in. I did not even care that I was losing out on 1000 dollars. I went to the Toronto film fest first week of classes and when I came back I found out I had already lost 10 percent of my grade. When I actually went to the class it was the most ridiculous thing I have even heard. The class was all about different forms of communication like putting emphasis on different words and hand gestures. I am so glad I never have to go to any of those classes again.

[Brent]

Women's Studies 101. 'Nuff said.
I took Women's Literature and it was a joke. I dont think I got anything lower than an A on all my papers.

[I am the beast]

I took Women's Literature and it was a joke. I dont think I got anything lower than an A on all my papers.

It's easy no doubt, especially since I'm a 3rd year in a 1st year course. Still doesn't change the fact that it's absolutely the most bias and anti-academic class I have ever set foot in.

[djp]

Not even close... "The American City" HIST 3352

A class on the suburbanization of the United States.

Essay exams which were impossible, no study guides, boring ass lectures... not to mention it was an hour and 45 minutes twice a week.

Horrible.

[MetSox17]

Anyone else hate teachers that make you buy books that they wrote? I feel why the hell do I need to come to class if you will just teach me exactly word-for-word what you wrote down.

I took the worst class ever here:

http://www.realisticromance.com/awards.html

I mean, yeah I got an A+ in the class, but she is seriously mentally ******** and would show the endings of about 5 different movies during class.

My freshman year, my logic professor wrote our "required" text. We were forced to head to the bookstore and fork over 75 bucks for a book that looked like it was printed at Kinko's.

One of my physics professors had just flown in from India like two days before our class started, so we were the first Americans he got to see. Extremely hard accent and taught very differently. It was hell, to say the least.

[Chucky]

I just dropped my COMM class because it was easily the worst class I have ever been in. I did not even care that I was losing out on 1000 dollars. I went to the Toronto film fest first week of classes and when I came back I found out I had already lost 10 percent of my grade. When I actually went to the class it was the most ridiculous thing I have even heard. The class was all about different forms of communication like putting emphasis on different words and hand gestures. I am so glad I never have to go to any of those classes again.

That is the kind of **** that you get at Brock

[Jvig43]

My freshmen year english class, first class i ever walked into in college. 8 o clock in the morning, walk in and find my english teacher is the biggest B***h ive ever met. Shed go off on tantrums when the class didnt get what she was talking about and honestly i remeber the highest grade in the class on our first paper was a C. To be honest tho, id be pissed if i had the name Dr. Miss. LOL

[CC.SD]

Logic. It's just math. It's just more math. And a lot of it. I thought I was signing up for a philosophically-minded course. Oops.

[EvilMonkey]

BUS 393- Business Law

No mid-terms or assignments, class participation was third the grade and the other thirds were a final which was a 25 page paper and then an individual presentation with the professor. 150 kids and all he did all finals week was sit in his office and make kids come in during the dumbest times to present to him. I had to go in at 7:30am to make a 5 minute presentation to this clown. Presentation was easy and ending up with an A- in the class but still, it was so awful.....

[Paul]

Biology. It's bad enough I hate science, but my professor was hor-ri-ble. Her "notes" were useless, she didn't seem confident when she was up in front of the class, and in her lectures she just read it verbatim from the slides, without any further explanation. Hated it and dropped it.

[Xiomera]

I didn't hate the class by any means, but I took a Film Study class that was pretty ********. The professor didn't teach us anything about films in general, just things that applied specifically to the movie we were watching. What the hell is the point of learning things about movies that can't be applied to other movies? I could have taught that class myself.

[aNYtitan]

Business statistics 51.1 was a pain, but so far as in uninteresting...its Intro to Art. If my friend wasn't taking the class with me, I would just never show up to class

[Xiomera]

Business statistics 51.1 was a pain, but so far as in uninteresting...its Intro to Art. If my friend wasn't taking the class with me, I would just never show up to class

I had to take an Intro to Art class. Easiest 4.0 ever. The professor was this really cool old lady who knew everything about art but didn't tell us trivial stuff and expect us to remember it. I actually took quite a bit away from that class without having to study or work very hard. It exponentially increased my knowledge of art.

[aNYtitan]

I had to take an Intro to Art class. Easiest 4.0 ever. The professor was this really cool old lady who knew everything about art but didn't tell us trivial stuff and expect us to remember it. I actually took quite a bit away from that class without having to study or work very hard. It exponentially increased my knowledge of art.

Thats the thing, I have taken other intro classes (I go to a CUNY school so they are required to graduate) and all of them have been interesting, never got anything lower then an A- in all of them, except for Classical Cultures. Its just been this one class with a professor who seems uninterested in his own field of study, and does nothing but talk and talk about his slide show. I think there has been 6 questions so far asked during lecture in the 10 or so classes

[draftguru151]

My calc 3 teacher was a computer engineering teacher that was teaching his first math class and he had no idea what he was doing. Other than that there hasn't been anything bad.

[CJSchneider]

Where to start?

I had a PoliSci professer who was so pompass, you'd think he wrote the Constitution.
Freshman Orientation sucked hard. The guy was so boring and dry. He actually had a us writing fictional histories of the school.

The worst by far was a Speech teacher my sophomore year. The professor (and I'm giving him way too much credit by calling him that) couldn't remember crap about his own syllabus.

[Bengals1690]

anthropology is the most boring class ever. Its even worse bc im watching the teacher on tv at another campus. its so hard to stay awake.

[VoteLynnSwan]

My Differential Equations class was the absolute worst.

My professor hated me and TRIED to make me fail... of which i dropped the class and took it not at my school the next year. I hope he got hit by a truck.

i had to take Diff Eq twice because the first time i took it, the teacher had a huge hard-on for homework. He assigned homework every day, and collected it every day and graded it like a test.

I ended up having a B test average, but the homework was worth more points than the tests and the final combined. So i got a D in the class

i took it again and got an AB, i have no idea how i didn't get an A. teacher had a really hard grading scale 95-100 for an A.


the worst class i've taken i'm actually in now. ME300 Numerical Methods... the class is awful, and we have to use Matlab... enough said. The teacher is cool, but he's killing me in his grading.

the next worse for me i'm also in now... MA383 Linear Algebra. The teacher is an absolute douchebag, and he makes the class 10x harder than it should be. 22 of 32 people failed the first test... that's ridiculous.

[hobbes2053]

HIS 105. Professor is a ***** and doesn't teach us at all. It's supposed to be World Civ to 1500, but all we've covered thus far is Confucianism, Judaism, and Islam. If I wanted to take a world religion class, I would. But I don't. Not to mention that she is trying this new online ******** that she doesn't even know how to do, so she practically expects us to teach ourselves everything. I hate that ****.

[Dr. Gonzo]

When I took Oeneology and Viticulture the exam average was 52 and according to the proff that was the highest it has been in years. I still actually managed to do quite well in that class. In PSYC the exam average was something like 49 and I did not bother to read the textbook so if not for a very easy paper that was worth a good chunk of marks I probably would have failed the class.

[Brent]

Logic. It's just math. It's just more math. And a lot of it. I thought I was signing up for a philosophically-minded course. Oops.
Ha! I thought the same thing when I took Logic. What a joke. I hated that class.

[P-L]

MTH 122. Calculus. I'm normally really good at Math, but the professor I had was a joke. Oakland University is notorious for having a high fail rate in their math classes, and professors like this guy is the reason why. He had the worst accent I had ever heard. Honestly, I could not understand a word out of his mouth and normally I'm good at understand foreign accents. Half way through the semester he put the grades up on the overhead and no one had an A and more than half the class was failing. I re-took the class next semester and got an A in it. Go figure.

[TitleTown088]

Calc. Why the hell does a history major have to take Math!

Other than that American history 2. I normally like history classes, but the teacher was soo boring and the class too easy. Too easy to the point I didn't learn a single thing. I don't pay thousands of dollars to relearn high school history. I think I got 125% in that class without studying a bit.

[Brent]

Calc. Why the hell does a history major have to take Math!

Other than that American history 2. I normally like history classes, but the teacher was soo boring and the class too easy. Too easy to the point I didn't learn a single thing. I don't pay thousands of dollars to relearn high school history. I think I got 125% in that class without studying a bit.
so you have a well rounded education

[619]

That is the kind of **** that you get at Brock

Sorry to say but Brock is a joke compared to UTM and U of T downtown is 3x worse.

Well, earlier in the semester I had a cinema studies course where we watched film from the 1920's and 30's without any color nor sound. Safe to say I switched out of that course asap. Now I lost about $500 after dropping out of a philosophy class I had no business being in. On the positive side I'm doing particularily well in geography which I'm just naturally gifted in and sociology. I'm first year btw.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Sorry to say but Brock is a joke compared to UTM and U of T downtown is 3x worse.

Well, earlier in the semester I had a cinema studies course where we watched film from the 1920's and 30's without any color nor sound. Safe to say I switched out of that course asap. Now I lost about $500 after dropping out of a philosophy class I had no business being in. On the positive side I'm doing particularily well in geography which I'm just naturally gifted in and sociology. I'm first year btw.

You are like a few film majors I have classes with. They also hate films without sound or color which is ridiculous IMO. I mean why be a film major if you will no appreciate incredibly influential films.

[Bruce Banner]

You are like a few film majors I have classes with. They also hate films without sound or color which is ridiculous IMO. I mean why be a film major if you will no appreciate incredibly influential films.

It raises an interesting question.

Are YOU a film major because you appreciate these films or do you appreciate these films because you are a film major?

[Paranoidmoonduck]

^
I know I'm in the minority, but I love the old silent films. Metropolis and Man With a Movie Camera are required viewing in my opinion. Then again, I'm a music major, and part of the reason I love those films are because people continuously make new and awesome soundtracks for them.

I made the mistake of taking a basic political science course in San Francisco. I actually liked the professor, but he took dramatic liberal stances wherever possible as a way to connect with the students, and I compeletely lost interest a month in (as did several other students). Granted, he was coming from a history of being oppressed for his ethnicity and studied at Berkeley, so I'm not sure what I expected, but the class was fairly unbearable.

Beyond that and a Statistics class I simply stopped going to because I kept falling asleep during it, I've had decent luck with classes.

[Bruce Banner]

www.ratemyprofessors.com

[CashmoneyDrew]

Intro to Karate

Hear me out. I took it as a class to kind of help out with the GPA a little bit and as a class I was genuinely interested in at first. The teacher was ridiculous. He made us learn to speak Korean as part of the class curriculum. He also graded our performances so incredibly hard that it wasn't fair. When we were going through our forms one exam he graded me down because, "Something didn't look right." He never told me what, but that was his excuse for grading me down. I got a C- in that class, and it cost me scholarship money. If I ever, ever, ever see Timothy Scott Pruitt on campus he better watch out. I'll come up on him and use some of those moves that he taught me on him. Crazy **** for an INTRO to karate class.

[Dr. Gonzo]

It raises an interesting question.

Are YOU a film major because you appreciate these films or do you appreciate these films because you are a film major?

It is an interesting question. I know that in my classes I am the only one who has actually gone out and watched many of the silent era movies we are now watching on my own. People seemed to be shocked that I watched them without being forced to. I have always appreciated older films but no doubt do I appreciate them even moreso now.

[djp]

How about the best class you've ever taken?

I'm in one right now called Jazz Studies... the teacher is a jazz musician who basically just tells stories about how high and drunk he was when he lived in New York and how he partied with Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. Then the last 10 minutes we learn about jazz. The guy is so funny. He shows us these Mardi Gras videos that he took in the 80's and has to stop the tape and fast forward because there is nudity and he just laughs and goes "And heeeeere is where I have to stop the tape for a second." One time he played it too early and he was just filming these girls flashing him, it was so funny.

[CashmoneyDrew]

How about the best class you've ever taken?



Mine would've been football coaching if it hadn't been 8 am, 3 days a week. So.... I'll go with my English 2020 class. Made a good grade, and met a lot of hotties.

[Bruce Banner]

Mine would've been football coaching if it hadn't been 8 am, 3 days a week. So.... I'll go with my English 2020 class. Made a good grade, and met a lot of hotties.

Easiest way to find the hotties......advanced English classes.

That is if you can look past their slightly pretentious/pseudo intellectual/hipster personalities.

[CashmoneyDrew]

Easiest way to find the hotties......advanced English classes.

That is if you can look past their slightly pretentious/pseudo intellectual/hipster personalities.

I've seriously considered yoga classes.

[TitleTown088]

How about the best class you've ever taken?

I'm in one right now called Jazz Studies... the teacher is a jazz musician who basically just tells stories about how high and drunk he was when he lived in New York and how he partied with Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. Then the last 10 minutes we learn about jazz. The guy is so funny. He shows us these Mardi Gras videos that he took in the 80's and has to stop the tape and fast forward because there is nudity and he just laughs and goes "And heeeeere is where I have to stop the tape for a second." One time he played it too early and he was just filming these girls flashing him, it was so funny.I know Jazz studies. You're not in Minneapolis, Liar!

[Paranoidmoonduck]

Easiest way to find the hotties......advanced English classes.

That is if you can look past their slightly pretentious/pseudo intellectual/hipster personalities.

This. English classes have consistently yeilded the best results for me girl-wise. Reading Shakespeare together = win.

[holt_bruce81]

Music Appreciation.

The teacher was SOOO boring, I mean learning about Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach was boring enough but he made it to where I wanted to stab someone. Plus it was over the summer and the classes are extra long for summer, i think it was close to 3 hours long, three times a week for like 2 months.

[iowatreat54]

honestly, Poly Sci classes are the easiest/best classes I have taken...every test is essay, or you just have to write papers, in both cases all you have to do is prove that you understand historical actions and theories and then mention them in answers...Poly Sci classes are so easy to BS your way through, I don't understand how anyone can get lower than a B in them...all you have to do is have a point of view and support it, and you get a B

[diabsoule]

I took a Psychology 101 class over the summer one semester. Easily the most boring/worthless class I had every taken. Not only did the teacher teach completely off of his power points but his tests didn't contain any of the material on his powerpoints. I had talked to some of my classmates and they all said that he's considered the worst teacher at the college and I could definitely see why.

[EvilMonkey]

I took a Psychology 101 class over the summer one semester. Easily the most boring/worthless class I had every taken. Not only did the teacher teach completely off of his power points but his tests didn't contain any of the material on his powerpoints. I had talked to some of my classmates and they all said that he's considered the worst teacher at the college and I could definitely see why.

sounds like my philosophy 101 class. The guy just talked about a bunch of nonsense and then the tests were essays on stuff we never discussed. He curved everything and a 75 was usually an A- for most of it and I ended up with a B so it wasnt that bad, but the class was just boring and ridiculous.

[BlindSite]

I took an investigative journalism course as part of my degree and the guy lecturing was a warrior in his day, broke out some massive scandals about child abuse and police corruption that lead to colonial inquiries. But he is about 75 now and he just warbles on in a monotone voice.

Other than that I have had a couple of lecturers on topics that are very boring. That's the one pain in the ass about doing these last year or two I'm fully trained, its all advanced theory that makes me want to bash my head on a desk.

[iowatreat54]

one of my favorites: Age of Dinosaurs

we went through different time periods, learned about what dinosaurs evolved from eachother based on like bone structure and learned when things like the ankle and different fingers came about...just basically overall really interesting learning about dinosaurs and stuff

plus the teacher was awesome...haha one of his tests there were I think like 60 multiple choice and it wasn't a bubble sheet just a normal test book, so there were 4 rows of 15 spaces...the whole 1st row was A, 2nd row B, etc. so it's like if you got all of them, you felt like you messed up, but he did it just to see if people realized

[CashmoneyDrew]

I hate going to labs. It sucks having to go for three hours a week to a lab that's only getting you one hour of credit.

[wicket]

I had one marketing class and it was entertaining and stuff but it was so easy I went to the exam drunk without studying and still got a B

[badgerbacker]

My second semester Chem class absolutely blew. The great Bassam Shakhashiri was my professor. For some reason he is looked at as some sort of chemistry god outside of the UW chem department. However, all of the time spent with my TA was used for correcting all of the mistakes he made in lecture.

On top of that, he provided us with a crapload of unnecessary supplimentary information which was, of course, included on exams. Some of this information included a chemical of the week (every week), and a guest lecturer every Friday who came and spoke about something unrelated to chemistry.

Gross.

[Brent]

Easiest way to find the hotties......advanced English classes.

That is if you can look past their slightly pretentious/pseudo intellectual/hipster personalities.
As an English major, I have to disagree with your assertions here. First, advanced English classes dont have a bunch of "hotties" at every school. There are tons of girls, yes, but they are usually chubby/ugly bookworms. The hot girls are in majors like marketing/advertising, education and (especially at TAMU) communications. Here, it seems every hot girl is in Communications, it's mind boggling, which why I love my class in the Harrington building (where the Comm classes are).

I've seriously considered yoga classes.
We are required to take two Kinesiology classes and I took Yoga for one. I thought what you did, that it would be hot girls but instead it was mostly fat girls who were too lazy to do real exercise. Luckily, I was one of two guys (he was dating a girl in the class) so I wasn't a total creeper. Also not looking like a douchebag or being horridly ugly helps.

[drowe]

My second year of college i took an African History course. The professor was an evil snatch from the start. It was a very writing intensive course..something like 7 papers (5 small, 2 long) papers over a semester. Anyway, the last small paper we had due, was due right before the semester ended. It was regarding a book we had to read. I actually read the book, and turned in what i thought was a nice effort for my final paper. Over break, my grades arrived, and i noticed i had a big fat 'I' for 'Incomplete in African History. I also recieved a letter from the professor saying she gave me that grade because of questions she had on my last paper. Now, just to be clear, this last paper wasn't one of the big ones. it was a little 2 page job, of which we had 5 over the semester.

So, first day back on campus, i go to the wench's office and, she shows me my paper, and shows me a printed out web site. She says, "it's pretty obvious that you plagiarized your paper from this web site instead of reading the required reading material." I said, "No. I read that book." Then, she got uber mad..."Cut the BS Dan. You know what plagiarism is. Now you can admit it now, and I'll give you an F for the course, or we can take this to academic court, where you'll lose, and you'll get an F for the course." I was shocked. I really legitimatly read the whole damn book (a rare occurance for me). I asked her what lead her to this accusation, and she showed me 2 lines from my paper that also appeared in the web site summarizing the book. I told her that those lines must also appear in the book, because I've never seen the web site before. She very nicely tells me to "cut the crap" as she's been teaching that book for 10 years and she knows very well that those lines aren't in there. So, i suggested that maybe I had the lines in my notes from the class. Of course she laughed at me and told me to "go to my dorm and fabricate any notes I wanted to." So, I left her office and met with my advisor who told me to re read the book, and hope to hell those lines show up in there.

So, i did. despite having a full load of classes, I was making re reading a book for a class I had the previous semester my priority. And, I still remember the page numbers (114 and 115) where those lines magically showed up. The lines psycho lady told me weren't in the book. So, back to her office I went, with my book, and the lines in question highlighted. This is what she said:

"Ok, I guess we're now at a stalemate. You claim you took those lines from the book. I still think you got them off this web site." so, yeah. i lost it. I told her how wrong she was. How she swore those lines wouldn't even be in there. She calmly said she'd think about it and call me in a week. 2 days later, i had a message on my answering machine.

"Hi, this is Dr. Feminazi-Turbotwat, I just wanted to let you know that I will NOT be pursuing charges of plagiarism against you." So, I had a beer, and after prompting from my room mate, wrote a letter asking for an apology. never got one.

[Xiomera]

Wow, drowe.

She sounds like quite a piece of work. Good job sticking it to the man!

[awfullyquiet]

i had to take Diff Eq twice because the first time i took it, the teacher had a huge hard-on for homework. He assigned homework every day, and collected it every day and graded it like a test.

I ended up having a B test average, but the homework was worth more points than the tests and the final combined. So i got a D in the class



I know what that is like. In addition, it's impossible to find a decent diff eq textbook. I think that's part of the issue, people are totally incapable of writing decent textbooks these days without being totally wrong.


i took it again and got an AB, i have no idea how i didn't get an A. teacher had a really hard grading scale 95-100 for an A.

There's something to be said about engineering which doesn't lend itself to 'cakewalk' professions like, uh. Communications...

the worst class i've taken i'm actually in now. ME300 Numerical Methods... the class is awful, and we have to use Matlab... enough said. The teacher is cool, but he's killing me in his grading.

Matlab is the devil. No one uses it, ever. Mathmatica is the way to go... Matlab is so shifty and unwieldy, i cant ever believe people use it. When i took diff eq. It was split into two classes a regular lecture, and a lab revolving around matlab. two credit hours of matlab instruction. by allah.

[VoteLynnSwan]

I know what that is like. In addition, it's impossible to find a decent diff eq textbook. I think that's part of the issue, people are totally incapable of writing decent textbooks these days without being totally wrong.



There's something to be said about engineering which doesn't lend itself to 'cakewalk' professions like, uh. Communications...



Matlab is the devil. No one uses it, ever. Mathmatica is the way to go... Matlab is so shifty and unwieldy, i cant ever believe people use it. When i took diff eq. It was split into two classes a regular lecture, and a lab revolving around matlab. two credit hours of matlab instruction. by allah.

yea i don't often look at my books, especially math books, they're all way too vague and generalized and just plain don't make sense.

my school uses matlab to no end... including the class i'm in now, i've had a total of 9 credit hours of matlab... wrap your head around that.

[awfullyquiet]

yea i don't often look at my books, especially math books, they're all way too vague and generalized and just plain don't make sense.

my school uses matlab to no end... including the class i'm in now, i've had a total of 9 credit hours of matlab... wrap your head around that.

*thinks*

That's 11000 dollars of matlab classes. Jesus christ. Your school sucks. LOL.

sorry. :(

EDIT: books trying to describe Fourier transformations are absolutely nuts.
every single book i looked at could not describe it with any sort of sense... So i go to my friend... and was like. listen here. i can't stand the VC (my teacher was vietnamese and hated me, hence. my racist comment to call him the viet-cong wouldn't have gone over well since his wife was in charge of the school's lay portion of campus ministry... yikes... he wins a moral victory!)... these books all suck.

so. moral of the story. spent 5 hours teaching me fourier transformations and their applications (i can now do that **** in my sleep, still. i'm a little fuzzy on calc 2 area of object sorta stuff...) and what did he do with the papers he used to teach me.

Went off and published a study guide to the basics of the fourier... and made a few thousand dollars. Moral of the story. But then again, this was before barnes and noble owned all college bookstores.

[d34ng3l021]

All right get this. Medieval Studies 2. I thought it would be interesting so I said why not. It fulfilled a GE requirement anyway.

-Most of the class was basically talking about religion. I am not Christian, nor am I very religious in my own religion. I had no idea what they were talking about nor did I really care.

-Instead of regular essays, you had to write as if you were actually in that time period and you were sending a letter regarding a situation during those times. Most BS ever. 1000 words of where art thou and **** was SO annoying.

[Don Vito]

History 160-East Asian History was very, very dull. All of the names and places sounded very similar and the professor was very hard to understand.

[awfullyquiet]

Half of the reason the medieval government existed the way it did in individual countries was based on catholic religion (poorly executed quasi theocratic monarchies)...

But if you separate religion from medieval times, you pretty much got nothing... Medieval **** is so cool and banal at the same time...

I wish i took more history and english classes in college. I find that to be the most amazing part of both of those is that they're so interconnected and related that they're parallel fields... to study like classic literature without respect for history and studying history without reading classic literature, you lose not only facts but perspective which is so godawfully cool.

[d34ng3l021]

Half of the reason the medieval government existed the way it did in individual countries was based on catholic religion (poorly executed quasi theocratic monarchies)...

But if you separate religion from medieval times, you pretty much got nothing... Medieval **** is so cool and banal at the same time...

I wish i took more history and english classes in college. I find that to be the most amazing part of both of those is that they're so interconnected and related that they're parallel fields... to study like classic literature without respect for history and studying history without reading classic literature, you lose not only facts but perspective which is so godawfully cool.

Yeah you are right. I should have realized that going into it. But at least it helps out with the comparative lit classes I am taking now. And we did get to read Dante's Purgatorio in that class. Even while missing half the connections, the book was still way cool.

[VoteLynnSwan]

*thinks*

That's 11000 dollars of matlab classes. Jesus christ. Your school sucks. LOL.

sorry. :(

EDIT: books trying to describe Fourier transformations are absolutely nuts.
every single book i looked at could not describe it with any sort of sense... So i go to my friend... and was like. listen here. i can't stand the VC (my teacher was vietnamese and hated me, hence. my racist comment to call him the viet-cong wouldn't have gone over well since his wife was in charge of the school's lay portion of campus ministry... yikes... he wins a moral victory!)... these books all suck.

so. moral of the story. spent 5 hours teaching me fourier transformations and their applications (i can now do that **** in my sleep, still. i'm a little fuzzy on calc 2 area of object sorta stuff...) and what did he do with the papers he used to teach me.

Went off and published a study guide to the basics of the fourier... and made a few thousand dollars. Moral of the story. But then again, this was before barnes and noble owned all college bookstores.

i don't think we ever learned fourier... and i'm glad we didn't. Probably would have been a part of the advanced differential equations class i was going to take before i took linear algebra.

[ChezPower4]

Music Appreciation.

The teacher was SOOO boring, I mean learning about Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach was boring enough but he made it to where I wanted to stab someone. Plus it was over the summer and the classes are extra long for summer, i think it was close to 3 hours long, three times a week for like 2 months.

Music Appreciation is a big waste of time but the nice thing is it's easy to get a good grade in that class.

[awfullyquiet]

Yeah you are right. I should have realized that going into it. But at least it helps out with the comparative lit classes I am taking now. And we did get to read Dante's Purgatorio in that class. Even while missing half the connections, the book was still way cool.

Yeah. Dante is legit.

If you look at everything that possibly came artistically from his works, and how much he developed a literature shunt from fiction and religion. It's absolutely nuts. How many artists great works are based off his writing, how many writers have alluded to dante's trifecta... it's mindboggling, but everyone takes it for granted...

Separating Religion though from classic history (pre industrial revolution) is pretty difficult though. Hell. Philosophy for 1300 years was heavily religious, Kierkegaard, Augustine, Thomas More, Aquinas, William of Occam...

Oy. Its a swirlin.

[Brent]

Its a swirlin.
thus is the course of the development of intellectualism

[awfullyquiet]

thus is the course of the development of intellectualism

To try to absorb the knowledge of 7000 ish years of civilization is a mindboggling task.

[d34ng3l021]

Yeah. Dante is legit.

If you look at everything that possibly came artistically from his works, and how much he developed a literature shunt from fiction and religion. It's absolutely nuts. How many artists great works are based off his writing, how many writers have alluded to dante's trifecta... it's mindboggling, but everyone takes it for granted...

Separating Religion though from classic history (pre industrial revolution) is pretty difficult though. Hell. Philosophy for 1300 years was heavily religious, Kierkegaard, Augustine, Thomas More, Aquinas, William of Occam...

Oy. Its a swirlin.

Yeah. It was just a terrific idea, to mix reason and religion to appeal to the masses.

What is/was your major? I have a hard time with all the classical works and am a lot more interesting in biology and psychology and such.

[awfullyquiet]

Yeah. It was just a terrific idea, to mix reason and religion to appeal to the masses.

What is/was your major? I have a hard time with all the classical works and am a lot more interesting in biology and psychology and such.

I majored Mathmatics/Computer Science (they were in the same department back when i graduated, shows how old i am...) and BioChem.

Well. Religion and Reason can go hand in hand, the greatest relgious scholars of the medieval era developed the basis of modern logic and reason... i.e. william of occam was a franciscan friar... and he made occams razor.

[d34ng3l021]

I majored Mathmatics/Computer Science (they were in the same department back when i graduated, shows how old i am...) and BioChem.

Well. Religion and Reason can go hand in hand, the greatest relgious scholars of the medieval era developed the basis of modern logic and reason... i.e. william of occam was a franciscan friar... and he made occams razor.

Yeah I agree they can go hand in hand. Its just that you look at situations now, and they hardly do. Dante makes things make so much sense with his use of contrapaso (sp?) where the souls get punished for their sins.

Damn. CS and Biochem. Impressive.

Speaking of literature, I have to revise my Beowulf essay. :/

[CJSchneider]

I like CJ's Norelco better. "Don't assume, just do as I say."

[awfullyquiet]

Yeah I agree they can go hand in hand. Its just that you look at situations now, and they hardly do. Dante makes things make so much sense with his use of contrapaso (sp?) where the souls get punished for their sins.

Damn. CS and Biochem. Impressive.

Speaking of literature, I have to revise my Beowulf essay. :/

They do. Contrapasso. Counterpoint, in a more literal sense nowadays... it's the soul recieving the other half of what it is... in this world, you'd say, that someones contrapasso is the person who completes them, in heaven and hell, there is no marriage, in dante's mind except to god, the soul is incomplete until you reach the gate where you cannot return, and your peace (or lack there of), is accurately reflected by the mold of your heart. It's a brilliant theological and literary device.

But, yeah, if you look now, philosophy... well. we'd be getting into politics too much. ixnay on the oliticspay.

[wicket]

Matlab is the devil. No one uses it, ever. Mathmatica is the way to go... Matlab is so shifty and unwieldy, i cant ever believe people use it. When i took diff eq. It was split into two classes a regular lecture, and a lab revolving around matlab. two credit hours of matlab instruction. by allah.

Matlab is just awesome, seriously I like the program, better for computing stuff than java programming or statistical sh*t like eviews

[awfullyquiet]

Matlab is just awesome, seriously I like the program, better for computing stuff than java programming or statistical sh*t like eviews

ugh...

java for computer programming introductions is just nuts. What java is used for in the real world has absolutely no bearing on anything you learn in the classroo.

Statistical stuff i think is better served by minitab... but that may be just me.

[iowatreat54]

ugh...

java for computer programming introductions is just nuts. What java is used for in the real world has absolutely no bearing on anything you learn in the classroo.

Statistical stuff i think is better served by minitab... but that may be just me.

I hate minitab with a passion, I never want to see it ever again

[awfullyquiet]

I hate minitab with a passion, I never want to see it ever again

Hahahaha... I'd take minitab over matlab for statistical purposes anyday...

but, yes, minitab isn't fun. statistical analysis that would require minitab also requires a high degree of personal instability.

[TitleTown088]

Half of the reason the medieval government existed the way it did in individual countries was based on catholic religion (poorly executed quasi theocratic monarchies)...

But if you separate religion from medieval times, you pretty much got nothing... Medieval **** is so cool and banal at the same time...

I wish i took more history and english classes in college. I find that to be the most amazing part of both of those is that they're so interconnected and related that they're parallel fields... to study like classic literature without respect for history and studying history without reading classic literature, you lose not only facts but perspective which is so godawfully cool.
So true. People always complain about that in my medieval courses. " why do we learn about religion?". Well, because prior to the Humanist movement the church was life( not that is changed drastically soon after). Everything was devoted to obtaining the highest degree of understand of theology. Until the richer merchants came along to create schooling for secular learning, nothing else like modern education existed. Can't get mad at people for not realizing this though , it's all part of whiggish thought that is so prevalent towards history today, "we're better than those who came before us". BTW this is not religious posting of any kind, historical only.

Also, I absolutely love reading Dante( especially), Machiavelle, Pico, ect allegorically with a proff who knows what they're talking about. They can drop some mind blowing knowledge on your ass. Those people who wrote that stuff are much much smarter than I could ever dream to be.



Well. Religion and Reason can go hand in hand, the greatest relgious scholars of the medieval era developed the basis of modern logic and reason... i.e. william of occam was a franciscan friar... and he made occams razor.

Can't say agree with this one totally. Medieval Logic was concerned primarily with theology and natural philosophy. Not the modern experimental method and such. That developed over time. It was certianly the footing for modern thought, but different in a way as well Certainly different from Modern reason. You gotta look past for that, Newton and Leibniz created modern calculus and so on. Probably the most important contributers in my opinion would be the Francis and Rodger Bacon.

[SuperMcgee]

I didn't like having to use any program at first, but Mathematica is pretty nice. Took a while for it to be really useful, though.
My linear algebra class was very forgettable. My professor was monotonous yet pretty hard to understand, but a super easy grader/tester.
Discrete Math was my favorite, awesome class.

[holt_bruce81]

I took a Psychology 101 class over the summer one semester. Easily the most boring/worthless class I had every taken. Not only did the teacher teach completely off of his power points but his tests didn't contain any of the material on his powerpoints. I had talked to some of my classmates and they all said that he's considered the worst teacher at the college and I could definitely see why.

I took the Psychology 101 a few semesters a go and it was easily my favorite class. But then again my teacher was cool, she was really good at making the class interesting.

It really depends on what kind of teacher you have.

[UKfan]

My worst class at University was easily Knot Theory, Knot... Theory, ugh!

Can't sayI miss many of my university Maths courses, but I miss the place.

[VoteLynnSwan]

I didn't like having to use any program at first, but Mathematica is pretty nice. Took a while for it to be really useful, though.
My linear algebra class was very forgettable. My professor was monotonous yet pretty hard to understand, but a super easy grader/tester.
Discrete Math was my favorite, awesome class.

linear algebra should be the easiest class i've taken... but the way my teacher grades, and the way he expects us to know all the definitions and theorems makes it ridiculous.

[dabears10]

I am in a class right now in which all but 3 people failed the midterm, no curve. The teacher then proceded to blame the class for failing saying that he had given all the information needed.

[Psychopsilocybin]

I am in a class right now in which all but 3 people failed the midterm, no curve. The teacher then proceded to blame the class for failing saying that he had given all the information needed.

I'm sure they'll curve it by the end of the semester if the entire class continues to fail at that rate.

[awfullyquiet]

Can't say agree with this one totally. Medieval Logic was concerned primarily with theology and natural philosophy. Not the modern experimental method and such. That developed over time. It was certianly the footing for modern thought, but different in a way as well Certainly different from Modern reason. You gotta look past for that, Newton and Leibniz created modern calculus and so on. Probably the most important contributers in my opinion would be the Francis and Rodger Bacon.

Well. Yeah. I was trying to take a few liberties here and there... but as i've seen it... Medieval logic, as a byproduct, created the foundation for the modern query of bacon and descartes... If i remember correctly, logic, as a whole, never really advanced much between aquinas and co. until the advent of bacon and descartes..

To really get into medieval logic, i mean, yes, everything comes from an inward look into the relationship between them and god, and subsequently, you have people developing the basis of logical truths and the desire to expand and develop post aristotelian thought... which, in my eyes, they surpassed and brought them out of the dark ages at that time.

anyway. to quit being so nosed up here... descartes was a badass. without him, i could never kick ass in starcraft.

[TitleTown088]

anyway. to quit being so nosed up here... descartes was a badass. without him, i could never kick ass in starcraft.
I find descartes a bit boring. The man believed that invisble vorticies transferred all mechanical motion in the universe. Give me Bacon any day.

[BuddyCHRIST]

Biochem, organic 2, physics a&b, animal diversity...pick one.

But the one I hated the most was animal diversity, because there was no real learning just memorizing random things about unrelated animal phylums, so its not hard to understand its just pointless memorization that I would forget right after the test.