<p>Does anyone else have any classes where you go in and you know you're going to be confused, and then you're sitting during the lecture and you just don't really understand what's going on? I got one class, Intro to Comp Systems, so of course I'm going to have to do some serious studying for. Just wondering if anyone else had the same feelings.</p>
<p>Yea you’re not alone. For me it’s physics, I always tends to be behind because I forgot to read the book but even then I don’t understand much of the HW and concept. I’m definitely looking to seek help.</p>
<p>I don’t have a class like that this semester. Everything I’m taking now, except my philosophy class, is what I’ve learned before. My philosophy class doesn’t leave me utterly confused. It’s challenging, engaging, and intriguing.</p>
<p>Yes! It’s my integrative studies class. I’m trying to get out of it since it’s impossible for me to catch up 
it’s a very demanding class.</p>
<p>Yep, physics.</p>
<p>If you’re not confused at least some of the time in your course it’s not worth taking. :)</p>
<p>Good to know I’m not alone, haha. For physics, at least in the intro classes, understanding the formulas first, and then seeing examples where they were used helped me. I don’t know which classes you’re in, maybe it’s an advanced one, one I would be totally confused in as well.</p>
<p>and RacinReaver, now I just realized that. So true</p>
<p>@Sink I’m in the first level physics class (Modern Mechanics).</p>
<p>I’ll admit I did have that at some points in AP Physics C last year, but I realized I wasn’t paying as much attention as I’d thought.</p>
<p>Thankfully, none of my classes are like that yet, knock on wood. In previous quarters that honor went to calculus (until I tried problems for myself and went to discussion), though I’m hoping I can avoid that this quarter.</p>
<p>@Descuff, oh okay, what helped me in Mechanics was starting with the most basic formulas that could lead to more complicated ones, drawing diagrams out of them, etc. Though in the exams there were a few problems I couldn’t get my head around haha, good luck though!</p>
<p>Financial Strategy. There are no lectures. There’s just a zany professor going around the room randomly calling on people and asking them confusing, roundabout questions about the graduate-level cases we’re reading from our graduate-level financial case textbook. </p>
<p>Considering this is a undergraduate class full of students who have had no introduction to actual financial strategy (or pretty much any type of business strategy), we are all very lost. We’ve been given no foundation, no fundamental principles, no detailed case examples to work with. We have nothing. You might get half a page of notes per day about seemingly obvious or irrelevant things related to the cases we’re reading, but there’s no…identifiable learning structure. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be getting out of this class. No one does. We all sit there, staring, dazed and confused for an hour and twenty minutes twice a week.</p>
<p>I’ve never been in a class where I’ve felt like I have absolutely nothing of value of contribute. Or a class where I can’t even guess what I’m supposed to be able to contribute. :(</p>
<p>Definitely physics. The teacher just hands us problems and expects us to do them. The closest we’ve come to a lesson is a video lecture (by MIT’s Walter Lewin).</p>