<p>As the title says, what is the worst class you have ever taken? </p>
<p>For it, it has to be the online Nutrition class that I just took for fun (and to learn more about nutrition) last summer. I had no choice but to take the online class, because there was no on-campus section of the class. </p>
<p>The reading was okay and quite interesting, but the online tests themselves were absurd. The professor expected students to remember tiny little details from the book, because the online tests required you to fill in the blank and type out your answers, and the sentences you had to fill in the blank for came straight from the book, so you had to use the same word the book used. If you didn't put the right word in, you got 1/2 point taken off. There were also some fill in the blank questions where you had to infer, and if you did not put in the EXACT word the professor was expecting, you got points knocked off as well. The test questions were littered with grammatical and spelling errors as well, so sometimes, it was difficult to figure out exactly what it was a question was asking. The timer limit was set to 2 hours as well, so for those who aren't quite fast at reading and finding the right answer from the reading, they might not be able to finish the test within the time limit because again, the tests are basically a search-and-find. </p>
<p>The most ridiculous we had were the two Powerpoint tests that each had 10 Powerpoint lectures, and these Powerpoint lectures would often be 97-150 slides long. For the test, you had to recall the exact numbers and the exact words the professor used on his Powerpoint lectures. </p>
<p>Honestly, if it weren't for opening all the powerpoint slides and using Ctrl+F to find whatever answer I needed, or my being able to quickly skim through the chapter being tested, I would have failed that class. I ended up passing the class with a C--I would have gotten a B, but my internet connection and Blackboard crapped out on me when I was trying to send in a required report on a vegan restaurant, and he would not accept the report when I emailed it to him. I know I wasn't the only one frustrated with his online Nutrition class, because there were others on ratemyprofessors who criticized his absurd tests.</p>
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<li>Chemistry (Physical and Organic) - I honestly do not deserve 70% on this course</li>
<li>English - I’ve had enough of this</li>
<li>Computer Science (Java) - got owned big time.</li>
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<p>1) a mandatory Wellness seminar (get enough sleep, don’t drink, communicate with your roommate, be responsible with your credit card, have a GYN exam, yada yada yada)</p>
<p>2) Data Structures. (The professor managed to give only 3 weeks’ worth of lectures over 15 weeks. We spent a lot of time in class playing video games and discussing social justice issues just to kill time.)</p>
<p>Yeah if i had to take english in college it would be english, haha.</p>
<p>After only one year though i would have to say my one and only humanities class, Environmental Ethics. Uh, anoying ass class. </p>
<p>Like in discussion, my class had a lot of more or less hippies, and then 1 other engineer. I would have to sit their and defend nuclear power cuz i swear they didn’t understand it or they just regergitated Greenpeace propaganda, which i also ripped on.</p>
<p>In the large lectures it was easy to tell who majored on something like business or engineering and who was an environmental major.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong i liked my prof and GSI but the material kinda got out there sometimes</p>
<p>^ It was awesome for an easy A. It was not so awesome for those of us who wanted to continue with the CS major and came out of the class having never heard of stacks or linked lists or breadth-first-search or bubble sort.</p>
<p>What year was this for you? I learned about linked lists, doubly linked list, bible sorts, stacks, queues, etc. my first year. </p>
<p>It was an honors class but i didn’t think we were that ahead.</p>
<p>That class only had one down side, some of the students. Some stuck up, nerdy, weirdos in that class. I honestly don’t know how a normal person could survive CS or CE if he was surrounded by kids like this all day.</p>
<p>I took a Contemporary American Society class fall semester where the professor was essentially a huge communist, and he wrote the textbook so we had to basically spit his theories out back at him. I mean, I’m fairly liberal, but that was a bit much for I think everyone in the class. Also the TA for the class barely spoke English, discussion was pointless. Also he wanted us to come in twice a week in the evenings to watch films. Sorry I have a life.</p>
<p>Also took an Alcohol and Culture class, sounds awesome right? I don’t know how it was able to be so boring, but it was. The teacher was also horribly awkward and everyone in the class was super weird (with the exception of one girl who wound up becoming a really close friend of mine!).</p>
<p>This semester I took Statistics for Psychology, which was actually taught rather well but I find anything math-related almost impossibly hard, so that was really bad, managed to squeak by with a BC though.</p>
<p>General Chemistry: My teacher played favorites hardcore! He gave 2 girls As that almost never showed up for class, gave a dude an A that smashed a vat of toxic Chromium all over the counter that myself and several others were almost hit by, and treated some of us like nemesis students that didn’t deserve to be in his class. </p>
<p>I’m not intimidated by moronic teachers, but it really was something when I walked into one of the last tests and he asked me why I was there when he didn’t think I’d pass - guess what, I did. </p>
<p>Data structures was mildly entertaining for me: The teacher was a middle-aged white guy that whined about how hard it was to get a job, how if you were successful your wife would leave you and you’d be a 40 year old virgin, and spent OVER A MONTH talking about how important signing papers on “the project development life cycle” was so damn important.</p>
<p>Half of the final was essentially writing down the glossary of the textbook (and of course, no books on the test). SERIOUSLY. </p>
<p>That, and despite knowing that we had a serious parking problem that semester (there was construction going on and stuff), half the class would be up to 20 minutes late, but he’d make sure to have a quiz every class at the very start of class. Ugh. hated that guy. </p>
<p>You know, the last class I disliked? Introduction to architecture! I had this crazy old guy that loved my work and declared me an A student, I had As on everything, but on the final he got so annoyed at my project he gave me a B in the class although it was functionally as good as anyone else’s - my partner got an A!</p>
<p>Intro to Sociology involved a prof who wrote the text book. His lectures were straight out of the book. Each week, fewer and fewer people showed up for the class. Then, all of the sudden, we remembered we did have a 5th class and there’s probably a midterm coming up soon.</p>
<p>Hawaiian Botany. After 40+ years in the US, the teacher still didn’t have a functional knowledge of the English language. She would ramble on, half in Tagalog and half in broken pidgin, talking about perfume, McDonalds, and sea shells then ask a totally random question about something she never discussed.
It wouldn’t have been too bad if she had used a textbook but she didn’t…not to mention she was always demanding ‘samples’ that were close to impossible to find.<br>
I dropped that class after two weeks.</p>
<p>I absolutely hated going to my Ethics class. There were so many obnoxious students who had ridiculous things to say about every issue without any kind of fact to back up their stand points… Seriously, if you have an opinion, be able to back it up or just shut up! That class dragged on for 15 weeks. Awful, but a very easy A.</p>
<p>Another useless class I forgot to mention in the OP was Introduction to Computer Systems, which was a pre-requisite for my major (I’m still trying to understand why the class would be needed for Animal Science majors). I was able to complete the class with an A without even actually reading the textbook because I already knew everything the course covered.</p>