<p>I was talking to a friend about their hardest class and as a graduate student one of the classes, if I can remember, "Mentoring strategies for -something-" at Columbia was the only class she could not get a B or higher in. She didn't like the professors and was not able to connect with the material to any significant degree.</p>
<p>So question is, what class did you just not understand/could not get/found it completely difficult?</p>
<p>Chemistry…but I also despised the professor and I had her for two semesters…</p>
<p>Though I predict organic will really do me in next year…</p>
<p>I never took it, but I have heard MANY times that Organic Chemistry is the worst of the worst.</p>
<p>Oh noes :(</p>
<p>I have heard about organic chemistry as well.</p>
<p>My toughest class was taxes and decision making (I can do other forms of accounting, stats/calc and econ comes easy, but oh how I dispise taxes).</p>
<p>organic chemistry really isn’t bad at all. </p>
<p>so far Chinese has been the most challenging class</p>
<p>Aerospace Dynamics has been my most challenging class thus far.</p>
<p>Anatomy&Physiology.</p>
<p>I was never able to do Chinese well. It was a really, really difficult class, at least for me. It was a lot of work.</p>
<p>It must just depend on the person. Chinese and Japanese were both really easy for me. English on the other hand…</p>
<p>everything has been easy so far</p>
<p>EXCEPT for math. ohh god I used to like math, but now I hate its guts. proofs proofs proofs. damn you all</p>
<p>Organic chemistry was one of the classes that made most sense for me. The hardest class for me was a math class called Probability. Sure, at first it seemed easy when we talked about coin toss or dice (lol) but when we got into topics like Random variables, cumulative distribution function, normal distribution… ugh. It felt too abstract and I just couldn’t wrap my head around it, though my teacher didn’t require us to do any proof. When you study organic chem you can at least draw the molecule structures to see what’s going on during a reaction lol</p>
<p>my point exactly. o chem is super easy compared to abstract math.</p>
<p>I agree with the abstract math stuff; I personally can learn math only when it is being applied to something real and tangible.</p>
<p>The most difficult class I took was some physics class I had last semester. Only squeaked a C+ out of it.</p>
<p>Interesting thread. Lots of people have very different viewpoints.</p>
<p>I found ochem, physics, even stats to be fairly easy classes. All of them had very little to actually learn, and were mostly applications of concepts. </p>
<p>For me, abnormal psych was my hardest course so far. There’s so much to learn, and there’s very few laws/rules that you can clump ideas into. I’ve found you pretty much have to learn every disorder and theory individually, because there’s no real strong, common ideas among the different perspectives of psychology. I have poor memory, so these type of courses overwhelm me.</p>
<p>all of my science classes since they’re not taught by teachers who know how to or even care to explain concepts and how to approach certain problems</p>
<p>So far it was my calculus class that was the hardest. I used to actually like and do well in math, but calculus busted my butt >.<</p>
<p>Gene Expression and Regulation. I still shudder when I think about that exam. A lot of people failed it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies guys. Really interesting stuff.</p>
<p>either a) Heat & Mass Transfer or b) Differential Equations</p>
<p>I don’t know how I managed to pass either of them…</p>