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but i think physics is actually easier because there is practicality of it, and can be visualized in everyday life.
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<p>try visualizing some E&M stuff, jackht27 >_></p>
<p>for example the electric field everywhere between two infinite planes of charge, even if you are one nm from one and a billion meters from another, is 0</p>
<p>also how do you do the originally posted by quote instead of just the normal quote?</p>
<p>organic chemistry ftw</p>
<p>Just the word organic chem makes me wake up screaming at night.</p>
<p>The words organic chemistry give me wet dreams. It's a really fun and easy class if you think about it the right way.</p>
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To me, history is pure memorization. One must learn to link one event with a person and time and then know the people involved and the result of it. I don't really know a way of practicing this.
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<p>This is how everyone views something they are not interested in. To me this is math/science/biology/economics--> not practical and just memorization.</p>
<p>To me, history encompasses so much more. If I just recounted the facts, I would fail, because we aren't tested. We are graded based on our discussion and our papers which require you to not only have sound prose and grammar, but analyze, relate, etc. Even more so, you need to have solid grounding in other disciplines such as foreign language, religion, philosophy, literature, economics, etc. in order to be successful. </p>
<p>It all depends under what paradigm you are viewing a discipline.</p>
<p>Math, science, biology, and economics are not practical at all. I agree wholeheartedly. They are way too abstract and cannot be applied to anything. It's all memorization and no problem solving or analysis is required. Just straight up useless subjects unless you want to teach them. </p>
<p>History is so useful. It saves friggin' lives.</p>
<p>Yeah, because biology and chemistry don't save millions of lives each day?</p>
<p>And economics isn't useful? You've got to be kidding me...</p>
<p>I believe Chamilitary is being sarcastic. at least I hope so...</p>
<p>I know this is weird, but I LOVE CALCULUS! I am in Calc 3 now and I think it is a piece of cake...but that's just me.</p>
<p>I think Physics is the hardest right now. My entire semester is kind of hard since I'm taking 22 credits (norm=14/15) of physics, calc, biology and chemistry and another honors class.</p>
<p>right off the bat, i have to say...if you haven't taken any calculus at the college level, and even at that if you haven't taken a proofs-heavy class, then you have no idea what you're saying it's memorization heavy. and especially physics! you're GIVEN almost every single equation you'd ever need on tests via formula sheets. that doesn't make the tests any easier at all.</p>
<p>i'm an electrical engineering major and i'd have to say the three hardest classes i'd ever taken in 3.5 semesters of college are in approximate order of conceptual difficulty:
1) Physics - Electromagnetic
2) Calculus II - Integrals and infinite series
3) Physics - Mechanics and Thermodynamics</p>
<p>and i'm still taking this class, but it's pretty vicious:
4) Math ("Calculus 5" for engineers if you will): Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations</p>
<p>but in terms of time investment and most work? my freshman writing class...kicking out 6-8 page essays every couple of weeks took time. obviously, it's become a lot easier now, but for a freshman who's never had to do something like that before, it was intense. hard though? not really...</p>
<p>thing is...for classes that involve any amount of substantial memorization (i.e. biology, history, art history, music history, etc., all classes i've taken at some time), i'm not able to carry even some of the biggest concepts with me when i leave the class. even if i get an A in the class and really understand and can dissect the concepts at the time, so much of my reasoning and thought process for that time is rooted in memorized entities that once i leave the class, i feel like i haven't really learned all that much. and so this doesn't apply to any sort of class like science or humanities...e.g., i don't remember that much from biology, and at the same time from my philosophy and critical writing classes i've taken away a lot.</p>
<p>the thing about things like math and physics at the higher level is the idea of the proof...the fact that you can experience the discovery of an idea yourself, and that coming to this "discovery" is almost as creative, if not AS creative as any art. and once you've figured that something out (and i suppose this is where the "there's only one answer" thing comes into play), it's very hard to debate the result...a "theory" in math, IMO, is much stronger than a "theory" in, say, political science. especially damning is the fact that you can take something so theoretical like a proof and apply to very real and very important applications. i think it's really hard to appreciate the true beauty (yeah i said it) of math and science until you see the true rigor behind it. in my experience, it's the most challenging stuff i've ever experienced, but at the same time, immensely rewarding.</p>
<p>The classes that are currently causing me the most trouble are Chinese and partial differential equations. My astrophysics problem sets can be extremely difficult, but I'm deeply interested in the subject matter, so it works out.</p>