<p>I'm loving some classes, but really despising others.
Anyone else have a distaste for certain classes within their major?</p>
<p>I’m only through second year courses and I haven’t loathed any of my courses, but there have been a couple I found uninteresting/unrewarding/unsatisfying. I imagine the active dislike will come about junior and senior years. That said, I think of it as a way to figure out what I should specialize in. At least that has been my mindset so I don’t feel discouraged. I still don’t know exactly what I want to be when I grow up, but I can pretty much rule out chemist and experimental physicist.</p>
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<p>There are few people who go through their degree and don’t have a healthy dislike for at least one of the main classes. As a mechanical engineering undergrad, I absolutely hated controls. In grad school, I have actually grown to appreciate controls and now I hate materials a lot more.</p>
<p>oooh, I loved control systems but hated stochastic processes. I still have my text books (Kuo [UIUC] & Ogata [university of Minnesota]) from 35 years ago! Ogata’s still serves me as the base for my monitor.</p>
<p>Ugh, my controls professor (also at UIUC) was terrible. Nice guy, but I left that class with a B yet I couldn’t tell you how controls were useful at all. I could do the math, just not apply it. That had a lot to do with my opinion of it, I think.</p>
<p>My least favorite area is materials. I don’t mind doing like solid mechanics stuff or materials related labs, but other aspects of the theory are just the least pleasant for me, particularly material science aspects. I am pretty sure you aren’t expected to love every class, assuming you get a decent breadth of coursework.</p>