<p>History to me is the most annoying subject. I hate reading and I don't want to bother with remembering what happened in this year and what happened in that year. I think I'm going to literally pry my brains out next year in AP World...****load of reading. I'd rather settle with good ol' math or learning a foreign language because they're direct. </p>
<p>Which subject do you find annoying?</p>
<p>I reckon I’m gonna get some hate for this one, but. SCIENCE. (FOR ME)
I think it is completely pointless. I don’t want to try to understand why we need to reason everything and test everything. No no no. I don’t wanna. I don’t care why things work, they just do! This is why. I am not taking ANY science senior year :)</p>
<p>I second history. I’ve always, even in elementary school, found that subject to be a waste of time–and each year, ever since the first grade, I’ve had a teacher swear up and down that “You won’t make it in this world without knowing U.S. history…or without knowing how to rope climb.”</p>
<p>Yet somehow, I’ve beaten the odds.
So take that George Washington–the elected senator of 1623 Prussia.</p>
<p>I hate history. I passed APUSH with an A and I didn’t learn anything at all from any of our daily lectures. I know it’s important (…) but I really can’t focus</p>
<p>Oh my, History is my favorite subject. I absolutely despise biology, I still don’t see how I managed a 5…</p>
<p>English. If I can communicate, that’s enough. Trying to divine some arcane meaning from a bunch of unnecessarily wordy novels or poems is boring and useless.</p>
<p>^Speaking if English, I’ve always wondered if the analyses done on novels and plays are even correct. </p>
<p>Like what if the author didn’t intend for the sun in some classic book to be a symbol for the protagonist’s endless struggle
for identity…but just a sun?</p>
<p>Damn typos. *of
*and magically fix any other typos.
I can’t edit my posts at the moment.</p>
<p>Aw, I love history. :(</p>
<p>I hate chemistry. I’m not going to do anything remotely science related, so I see no point in balancing chemistry equations and whatnot. I can’t think of any other chemistry subjects because my pure hatred for that subject has erased all memory.</p>
<p>Applies to Math, too, but I don’t mind it as much.</p>
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Exactly. The discipline ruins perfectly good stories, and why? To justify its own existence?</p>
<p>English. I second the notion that we try to much to analyze the author’s intent. What if the author just wrote the book without all the deep **** that we uncovered in class?</p>
<p>English and Literature to me should not be integrated.</p>
<p>History of Magic. My teacher is the most boring teacher at Hogwarts. He’s been teaching there for decades and I swear there’s been 2 O’s on the OWL exam.</p>
<p>Biology. I don’t know why but the subject just never caught on with me. I didn’t know I could be so apathetic about something as important and relevant as life itself. </p>
<p>I didn’t mind history, and I actually kind of liked literature. Regarding symbols, I was taught that as long as you can provide enough relevant evidence to support your interpretation, it should be fine. Although some objects are historically seen as being symbolic in a certain way, so unless there’s very strong evidence against the symbol, it’s probably what the author intended. So if a dissatisfied housewife owns a personal decorative bowl in which she allows nothing to stay except this one guy’s set of keys whenever he visits, it definitely means she’s having an affair with him, even if it’s never explicitly mentioned, no doubt about it. Operate under the idea that writers spend countless weeks and years thinking of what to put in a story, so whenever something is mentioned, it has to be important (whether as a symbol or to set the tone or whatever). Otherwise, why bother mentioning it at all.</p>
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That’s fine. I don’t see the point of excessively in-depth literary analysis regardless of what the author intended. You don’t need to painfully dissect a story to get the gist of the author’s most important points, and if you do it probably isn’t very good writing.</p>
<p>^ I think that’s more of a teaching tool than actual useful work. Meticulously analyzing pieces of literature helps you become a more astute reader. Kind of like how some math teachers will require students to go through endless numbers of pointless but relevant problem sets. Except essays are usually graded in English classes, so you can’t just skip them like you’d skip your sets.</p>
<p>So once you’re done with Lit, you can read books and catch things you might’ve not noticed before without all that practice.</p>
<p>^ You can get the same thing by studying textbooks for other classes that are actually relevant.</p>
<p>I’m a liberal arts kid. English and history are my favorite! Can’t stand math and sciency math though which is weird because that’s the subject I’m apparently “best” in…</p>
<p>Lol, another on the English.</p>
<p>My English teacher in his college days were studying a play, and they had the opportunity to visit the playwright, so his professor upon meeting the playwright commented on his ingenious metaphor of the opening of the pink umbrella foreshadowing the atomic bomb.</p>
<p>The playwright said no, it was just a pink umbrella.</p>
<p>^Haha, I knew it.</p>
<p>History. I liked it until this year, when I had a 70 year old dreary smoker teach it and make it sound terrible. I hope I don’t get him for APUSH >:l.</p>