<p>Everybody has had those experiences when you think you might like/love a class, but you end up hating or disliking it because it turned out to be a completely different thing than what you expected. For me, i'd say the most surprising class is Sociology. I'm taking both Sociology and Psychology and I thought I would hate Sociology but I actually like it way more than Psych. I don't like Psych at all. Just not my thing.</p>
<p>I thought I would enjoy my Economics class this semester (I had planned to double-major in it even), but my teacher is absolutely terrible. The only thing I learned in my last class was that “Wheaties is the breakfast of champion economists.”</p>
<p>Waste of my time. If attendance weren’t taken, I don’t think I’d ever go to class.</p>
<p>Russian History is a bit tedious, Gilded Age America is actually quite interesting.
I thought it would be the other way round.</p>
<p>My Harlem Renaissance class has more accessible reading than I thought it would. However, the professor is scary.</p>
<p>I took an Anthropology: Culture and Language class and loved it. I’m considering a minor in Sociolinguistics now because of that class.</p>
<p>My Humanities 1 class last fall was suprisingly interesting and I’m taking Humanities 2 now because of it. My Intro to African American History class is also proving to be suprisingly fun as well. However, my intro to Anthropology course is extremely boring. The teacher’s not bad per se, but her style of teaching just doesn’t manage to grab my attention. I was even thinking about minoring in Anthropology over the summer.</p>
<p>I signed up for a Classics course on greek mythology only to have the prof tell us on the first day that the class description was completely wrong and we wouldn’t be studying greek myths at all–we were going to be examining the “mythology” within old western movies (cowboys and the like). Why on earth wouldn’t he have just written that in the course description? I was pretty upset at the bait-and-switch and dropped the course. Got into a much better class as a result, so no harm no foul.</p>
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<p>First of all, I’m incredibly jealous that you’re taking a course on Gilded Age America. It’s one of my areas of specialty.</p>
<p>I’ve taken a Russian History course before, which discussed Russia from the 1917 Revolution to the present. My opinion of it? It was a tough class. Nevertheless, studying any period in Russian history is challenging itself.</p>
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<p>Graduate student teaching the class + he cannot speak English + he has terrible hand writing =</p>
<p>(well you do the math…)</p>
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<p>It was a ‘blind spot’ for me, in terms of US history. I’d only done the Civil War and post-WWI. But what’s not to find fascinating about the 19th century?</p>
<p>The “Introduction” to Russian History class has only just reached the 1700s, so I feel completely afloat. I’ve never taken a history class before where I have zero background knowledge.
I think it will be better when we reach the 1800s and 20th century.</p>
<p>I was a math major so I figured I would like philosophy - but it’s totally not my cup of tea. Sociology and geology turned out to be quite fascinating though! (If I had discovered sociology before my senior year, I might have taken enough courses for a minor. Oh missed opportunities…)</p>
<p>I thought I’d like my University 101 class and that it’d be a lot of fun, but I hate it. It’s an easy A and I like the people in the class, but the teacher takes it way too seriously and has a serious thing against letting us out early when she has nothing left for us to do.</p>