<p>What is THE worst class you've ever taken, undergrad or graduate, and what made it suck? (huge workload, ***hole teacher, boring pre-req class, etc..)</p>
<p>Accounting.</p>
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<p>Uhh, well I’m only in my first semester of college, but I’m getting the distinct feeling that my Chemistry Lab is really crappy, and I’m actually dropping it soon to take against next semester (for a variety of reasons, not because it’s crappy).</p>
<p>I love every single one of my classes except my Chem Lab. The TA that runs my Chem Lab is horrible at explaining things, is purposefully unhelpful, and has a difficult-to-understand accent that is only made worse by his choppy sentences. He also seems to have quite a bit of an attitude, which goes along with being purposefully unhelpful.</p>
<p>My Bio Lab TA is actually really cool. His English is no better (probably even worse) than my Chem Lab TA but he’s genuinely helpful and tries to be flexible with us. The rest of my classes are taught by actual professors who are all extremely interesting and accommodating.</p>
<p>I’m hoping that the exception to the rule is my Chem Lab TA and that I didn’t just get extremely lucky with the rest of my courses.</p>
<p>Bio 101. My professor would forget her lecture notes and cancel class, or cancel class to go shopping. Promised to email study guides but almost never remembered, made us all freak out over the lab exam only to make up three questions off the top of her head. Told us, in all seriousness, that old people smell bad because they are fermenting and once this fermentation occurs they are more likely to spontaneously combust. Spent several class periods discussing why America was a better place to live than India. We learned all about how her husband is an engineer and couldn’t find work here, so he went back to India but she refused to go. Also all about her daughters dating practices. I had such a high grade simply from the knowledge I had retained from 10th grade biology that even if I failed the final I still would have had a 4.0, so she told me not to come. I think we reported her to the dean.</p>
<p>math…plain and simple.</p>
<p>United States History…</p>
<p>Introduction to Chemistry for Engineers. The professor’s lectures were horrendous. He took the slides that came with the textbook and went over them in a slow, low, monotone voice. It was also a 250 person lecture. I ended up with a C…which doesn’t matter since I dropped engineering at the end of that semester anyway.</p>
<p>English 101.</p>
<p>My teacher spent 6 weeks going over basic grammar.</p>
<p>Seriously?</p>
<p>I have a tie between Multivariable Calculus and Data Structures. Both could have been very valuable classes if they had been taught better… (Or taught at all. By a professor. In the scheduled room at the scheduled time. Regularly. <em>cough</em> <em>cough</em>)</p>
<p>Business Law. It is soooooo boring (and this iscoming from an accounting major).</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe - That’s why you do well on placement tests. At least at my school English 101 is the remedial level, and 102 is the actual freshmen level.</p>
<p>I’m also only in my first semester, but anatomy&physiology sucks…mostly just cause my professor doesn’t teach.</p>
<p>Variety of Literature, Economics, Psychology— all completely BORING!</p>
<p>Nutrition for Life— only saw it 5 classes previous to taking nutrition. But it’s a requirement…</p>
<p>Intermediate Italian</p>
<p>Last year took an intro course, this year I’m in the next course in the sequence.</p>
<p>So far we have read 3 articles that we also read last year, done the exact same survey activity (make a survey regarding would people support a new rec center, distribute randomly on campus, collect and analyze results), and our semester-long group project is almost identical to what we did last year. Only difference is last year we picked our groups and this year they were assigned. Different instructor. </p>
<p>I feel like I’m paying for a course I already got an A in, and bored out of my mind.</p>
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<p>This is why we don’t make assumptions.</p>
<p>I placed out of English 101 (which is, at my school, the actual freshman level). But I was in a special honors program my freshman year that required me to take it with the rest of the students in my program.</p>
<p>I never had an opportunity to take a placement test. They claimed to use the ACT but I got a perfect score on the English section of the ACT and still got put in the lowest English course that was still for credit.</p>
<p>Boy would I have liked to have transferred out of English altogether. Those classes were completely useless.</p>
<p>I’ve only had one class in it so far, but I can tell by far, econ 201. It’s ge for pretty much everybody, and the instructor makes you drop close to 300 bucks for a one quarter course between the book, the iClicker, aplia, and his stupid course notes that he wrote and gets paid for each one bought.</p>
<p>Biochemistry Laboratory. It is a 300-level lab course that meets twice a week. It is so disorganized (TA’s don’t know what is going on, give contradictory advice, prepare solutions incorrectly) and there is not enough equipment for everyone to use so everyone has to take turns. Not to mention that half of the students are still not competent with working in a lab and certain procedures require waiting for everyone to finish before you can move on to the next step. Needless to say, most procedures fail due to one of the aforementioned reasons. It took nearly an entire three hour lab period to run a simple SDS-PAGE. ***? we are supposed to be “advanced undergraduates” at this point.</p>
Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology…bad times