<p>For me... Statistical Theory, Classical Mechanics and Abstract Algebra, all taken in the first semester of my 2nd year in college. I wanted to break stuff at the end of that semester.</p>
<p>Taking Honors General Chem is killing me. Don't even want to think about Organic Chem...time to find a new career...goodbye doctor:(</p>
<p>I think people make out that organic chem is harder than it really is. If you can visualize structures and memorize/understand reactions, it's not so bad. </p>
<p>I agree with mollie; P-Chem looks hard. There's a pchem class before my orgo class, and we always come in to find partial derivatives and other stuff on the board. I think they do it on purpose. :eek:</p>
<p>Yeah I don't mind o-chem but I did make a TON of stupid mistakes today (such as HBr being formed so the pH must be going up! As in up toward 1 . . . yeah my mind is twisted. And I forgot to write cyclo.)</p>
<p>And to EbolaZ Don't take honors chem to go to med school!!! Have I said this enough times. Don't be a dunce. It won't help interest med schools in you at all. Especially with a low GPA. Seriously just drop it.</p>
<p>Weed out at my school is bio. First exam average is ALWAYS a 60. The professor says he makes it hard as to clear the packed lecture hall very quickly. The thing about it is not the difficulty but the amount. 500 pages in 3 weeks memorizing the most mundane details which is the only thing he asks on the exam.</p>
<p>IlliniJBravoEcho: drop/add ended the 13th BEFORE I realized gen chem was impossible. My stupid advisor said in the honors program you have to take honors in your major...so honors gen chem and quant--shoot me.</p>
<p>I haven't taken the class myself, but my friend told me Heat Transfer is really hard. I don't know. Out of classes I have taken (which mostly are Engineering fundamentals), Engineering Dynamics and Solid Mechanics of Materials are very hard. As for the former, you have to really understand the concepts since there are just too many variations of problems, and the book's examples just won't cut it. Thermodynamics comes close, but is still very manageable. </p>
<p>The hardest of Math (again, from my perspective which only goes up to Sophomore level of Math) is Multivariable Calculus. The materials are sometimes too abstract to imagine, and the applications of concepts are just killers. I haven't had much experience in Chemisty, but even the first course of General Chemistry gave me a lot of trouble already (probably I wouldn't survive a day in Organic Chemisty lol).</p>
<p>Multivariable Calc. is the same as Calc. III, right? Well, I'm not having so much trouble in the class anymore.. it began to slack some. It's just that I read the book and try to understand EVERYTHING in it. And it drives me crazy.</p>
<p>Aww, multivariable? I found that a lot easier than single-variable calc, for whatever reason. </p>
<p>I think you just have to be good at visualizing functions in 3-space.</p>
<p>Knavish...you can never understand everything....jus focus on the test stuf...</p>
<p>Yeah, that leads me to another question: Do you guys study just what's covered in class or all that's in the book? See, if I were to go off the bits and pieces the prof. covers, I think I would feel extremely distressed that I didn't learn "everything" that I should have...but the prof. knows best, right? Anyway, since I have a lot of time right now (and because, well, I really and sincerely do like to learn), I read out of the book, and the tests come off as a joke. I might have to stop this when I go to college though.</p>
<p>I just listen to the teacher in class, I dont study.</p>
<p>Engineering Dynamics is really tough
multi var calc wasn't too bad at my school</p>
<p>I hear Thermo is the killer ChemE course. That is of course what I have to take next semester. This semester I have Physics E&M, Mass & Energy Balances (ChBE 221), Multi-Var Calc, Accelerated Orgo Chem & Acc Orgo Chem Lab. Blech I need to be shot.</p>
<p>I like Thermo, but it's not exactly easy. </p>
<p>I found E&M hard at first mostly because it isn't nearly as intuitive as mechanics. </p>
<p>I liked Vector Calc a fair amount. 'Div, Grad, Curl and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus' made it better.</p>
<p>These were the career killers and weed out classes at my alma mater</p>
<p>Economics 101 (MBA not in the cards)
Organic Chemistry I (Did I say pre-med? I meant pre-law)
Constitutional Law and Politics (Did I say pre-law? I really meant Psychology)</p>
<p>I spent a lot of times doing assignments in Thermo, even moreso than in Dynamics, even though I found Dynamics was far conceptually harder. E & M is also one hell of a class, but that's mainly because I never liked dealing with electricity to begin with.</p>
<p>intro bio (bell curve...ugh) and gen chem at vanderbilt are the premed weedouts, from what i understand. they're trying to shift it away from orgo so that students don't waste two years on the wrong path.</p>
<p>Yeah that is definitely true at my school. At least for the Acc Chem program. The orgo chem is still weeding but gen chem was the Roundup of the major. After first semester it knocked the class size down from 351 to 146. That was a scary thing to behold (except all the crazy bio pre-meds who thought they rocked were gone. Yes!). Then the next gen chem knocked out a few more. After this semester, I think those who are left, deserve to be there.</p>
<p>Honors Comp is currently kicking my butt.</p>