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WHAT WAS THE WORST COURSE YOU HAVE TAKEN?
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CloseWhat was the worst course you have taken? Can be from School, University etc. And give your reasons why, could be a terrible professor, could be the course material, the difficulty, etc.
Mine would be Business management which i had to take at university before i became a fully qualified restaurant manager. Main reason for this was because of the teacher. He knew barely anything about it and would spend most of his time discussing his bad experiences in running a business. It was a hard few years but i managed to pass the course.
Mine would be Business management which i had to take at university before i became a fully qualified restaurant manager. Main reason for this was because of the teacher. He knew barely anything about it and would spend most of his time discussing his bad experiences in running a business. It was a hard few years but i managed to pass the course.
History 100. Man, that class was brutal, all because of the prof. He treated it like a 200+ level class and as if we were all going to be History majors, instead of taking a class because the hot chick you liked was also taking it and you needed an arts credit anyway.
I didn't even get with the hot chick. :'(
Anyway, after a couple of 10 page essays and a brutal final, I pulled an 82% out of my ass. (Keep in mind I was CompSci student, so essays and writing in general ain't mah thing).
I didn't even get with the hot chick. :'(
Anyway, after a couple of 10 page essays and a brutal final, I pulled an 82% out of my ass. (Keep in mind I was CompSci student, so essays and writing in general ain't mah thing).
Philosophy 101. It was the butthole of all classes. The professor was some sort of Helene Cixous-obsessed ultra intelligent, ultra feminist new age type. She automatically gave all the females "A"s even though there was clearly no difference in the inanity of answers either sex gave in class. If male students said something wrong, she would just say "NO" sternly, instead of something like "not quite, it's actually so and so." No feedback whatsoever. No idea how to get a good grade.
College:
Behavioral Statistics.
8:30 in the morning.
Math.
Fail.
Not figuratively, literally, I failed it, I did not retake it, took Programming Games for my math credit in senior year instead, MUCH BETTER CHOICE YOU GUYS.
Behavioral Statistics.
8:30 in the morning.
Math.
Fail.
Not figuratively, literally, I failed it, I did not retake it, took Programming Games for my math credit in senior year instead, MUCH BETTER CHOICE YOU GUYS.
Blitzen
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Historiography 3100
This might as well have been titled, "Things for academics to talk about that have no practical concern whatsoever."Understanding history is about understanding the world we live in today. Understanding hisrotiography is about understanding how historians understood the world... which is so mind numbingly pedantic that you want to stab yourself in the face to get out of a lecture. There is just post-modernism everywhere. Makes me want to hurl.
Also my prof was like George McFly from Back To The Future.
This might as well have been titled, "Things for academics to talk about that have no practical concern whatsoever."Understanding history is about understanding the world we live in today. Understanding hisrotiography is about understanding how historians understood the world... which is so mind numbingly pedantic that you want to stab yourself in the face to get out of a lecture. There is just post-modernism everywhere. Makes me want to hurl.
Also my prof was like George McFly from Back To The Future.
suzuricho
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Home Ec. in High School! It was filled with girly girls, most of them pregnant. And I stood out like a sore thumb because between classes, I'd be playing my gameboy.
Nah, I'm kidding. I didn't take home ec for those exact reasons.
xD
The worst course I've had to take was a certain art class by an instructor who believed only he could draw anything. No, really, this guy was a maniac. He wanted to teach us how to draw just like he did, and anyone that either couldn't do it or refused to do it failed. I hated how he found one of my sketchbooks (that wasn't FOR that class, it was in my bag because I draw for FUN) and he scribbled all over my drawings because they had "no style, no taste! A person like you can NEVER be an artist!" Needless to say, I picked up my stuff and ran out in tears.
Hey, scribble over someone else's hard work - some pictures that took upwards of a week to get the details right - and you're either bound to get tears or a kick the the nuts. I didn't want to get expelled, so I didn't kick the guy in the nuts.
Nah, I'm kidding. I didn't take home ec for those exact reasons.
xD
The worst course I've had to take was a certain art class by an instructor who believed only he could draw anything. No, really, this guy was a maniac. He wanted to teach us how to draw just like he did, and anyone that either couldn't do it or refused to do it failed. I hated how he found one of my sketchbooks (that wasn't FOR that class, it was in my bag because I draw for FUN) and he scribbled all over my drawings because they had "no style, no taste! A person like you can NEVER be an artist!" Needless to say, I picked up my stuff and ran out in tears.
Hey, scribble over someone else's hard work - some pictures that took upwards of a week to get the details right - and you're either bound to get tears or a kick the the nuts. I didn't want to get expelled, so I didn't kick the guy in the nuts.
Probably the figure sculpture class I dropped today. The first day of class.
Not because the content was bad, but because I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE TEACHER 75% OF THE TIME. Just really not worth the trouble.
As far as actual classes, I haven't had any particularly terrible experiences at my school. At least, none that made me more miserable on average.
Did have a few bad classes at my previous school. Mostly before I transferred to the graphic design department. But none that really stick out to me anymore.
Not because the content was bad, but because I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE TEACHER 75% OF THE TIME. Just really not worth the trouble.
As far as actual classes, I haven't had any particularly terrible experiences at my school. At least, none that made me more miserable on average.
Did have a few bad classes at my previous school. Mostly before I transferred to the graphic design department. But none that really stick out to me anymore.
Mid-Level Maths.
I didn't want to join to begin with but the teacher coaxed me into it. All was well until we got to graphs (which I hate, btw) and I got so frustrated trying to learn the damn graphs that I forgot to restudy the previous simesters work and failed BOTH exams. ^.^;
I should have stuck with my decision to do media studies instead - they only needed one more person to run the class that year. Oh well.
I didn't want to join to begin with but the teacher coaxed me into it. All was well until we got to graphs (which I hate, btw) and I got so frustrated trying to learn the damn graphs that I forgot to restudy the previous simesters work and failed BOTH exams. ^.^;
I should have stuck with my decision to do media studies instead - they only needed one more person to run the class that year. Oh well.
Took me a while to remember this one, probably because I buried the memories, but my second year of college, I took something called "Adapting Literature for Performance." One might think, as I did, that this class (required for my program) would be about reading short stories and adapting them into plays or screenplays.
This assumption is wrong.
We were forced to read poems and do interpretive dances to them. I don't know, maybe that's someone's bag, but you don't put a bunch of wannabe screenwriters in a room and tell them to make interpretive dances to poetry. A few of us tried just acting out the poems, thinking this would be acceptable, but no - our critique was always, unfailingly, "more dancing!"
There is more, especially in the regard that this teacher was incredibly racist and sexist, but mainly the problem was in the class itself. Our year complained so hard that we had the class removed from the list of required classes for the program.
This assumption is wrong.
We were forced to read poems and do interpretive dances to them. I don't know, maybe that's someone's bag, but you don't put a bunch of wannabe screenwriters in a room and tell them to make interpretive dances to poetry. A few of us tried just acting out the poems, thinking this would be acceptable, but no - our critique was always, unfailingly, "more dancing!"
There is more, especially in the regard that this teacher was incredibly racist and sexist, but mainly the problem was in the class itself. Our year complained so hard that we had the class removed from the list of required classes for the program.
Abite
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Differential Equations! YUCK!
This type of math is used in phyics problems, only I was taking the physics courses at the same time- and did better in the application. The plain math part is just SO DRY! Some math is O.K., but this one is just torture.
This type of math is used in phyics problems, only I was taking the physics courses at the same time- and did better in the application. The plain math part is just SO DRY! Some math is O.K., but this one is just torture.
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