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Posted: 4/10/2019 9:16:37 AM EST

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Rescue swimmer school....

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:17:27 AM EST

[#2]

Mass transport - ChE

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:17:58 AM EST

[#3]

1a and 1b Finite Elemental Analysis or Control System Design

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:18:01 AM EST

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O Chem

First day prof pulled the “half of you will fail” line and he followed through with it.

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I got a 54% in Orgo.

It was the highest grade in a class of 125

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:18:16 AM EST

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You had an entire semester for mass transport? What was the major?

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Mass transport phenomena.

You had an entire semester for mass transport? What was the major?

Chemical Engineering

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:19:06 AM EST

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This!

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:21:42 AM EST

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Fortran- dropped it, failed it, got a C.

Or, my favorite elective- Vector Analysis

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:23:03 AM EST

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Hardest classes for me were Discrete Math and Diff Eq

I hated Calc 1, but by the time I got to Calc 3 I loved it and FINALLY fully understood calculus and why I was there...ended up acing that class.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:23:06 AM EST

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Photonics

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:24:43 AM EST

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DiffEq. My lifetime DE average is an F. Two Incompletes, an F and a B.

(0 + 0 + 0 + 3)/4 = 0.75 = Eff Me.

I was happier to get that B than any of the As I ever got.

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This, right fucking here.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:25:18 AM EST

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Undergrad?

What the hell is that?

I graduated Highschool. I never even took the SATs.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:25:51 AM EST

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Hardest class I passed: Criminal Justice 430 (CJ Statistics)

Hardest class I didn’t pass: History 360 (Peace Studies).

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:27:01 AM EST

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What is the hardest class you took in undergrad that you passed?

Was the class a required part of your major?

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There are different types of "hard".

There is business calculus hard, and then there is "read Gorgias by Plato and write an essay discussing the differences between rhetoric and philosophy and be graded on original thought".

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:27:36 AM EST

[#15]

Engineering Dynamics

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:29:05 AM EST

[#16]

Calculus

It had been about 6 years since I had college algebra

The calculus wasn't that hard

It was the college level algebra that fucked me in the ass that whole course

took it 2 time before I got through

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:29:18 AM EST

[#17]

economic game theory, was also one of my favorites

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:30:08 AM EST

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Undergrad?

What the hell is that?

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Neat!

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:30:10 AM EST

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I got a 54% in Orgo.

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O Chem

First day prof pulled the “half of you will fail” line and he followed through with it.

I got a 54% in Orgo.

It was the highest grade in a class of 125

My buddy was pre med, and said o chem kicked his ass

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:31:18 AM EST

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Phew, that makes me feel better. Same here. Skated through college, no problems with math courses but for some reason, statistics never clicked with me.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32:13 AM EST

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Due to a teacher: Precal/Trig or Chem121. Two day a week classes taught by either a department chair or a really advanced part-time teacher that just could not talk at the lower levels anymore. Each one of those classes the "high" grades were in the 30's. It was insane for the level of material being covered. There was a ton of material being covered. The weird thing was I aced the Chem 125 lab that went with the class lol. I took precal/trig at another school that had shorter 4 day a week classes so each day the info was a bit more manageable to absorb that I was able to take first thing in the morning before work and I passed them with no issue.

Class itself: Statistics or Accounting. They were just so dry i just could not retain any info for the tests no matter how much homework and studying I would do. My eyes would just roll back in my head and i'd drift off into another dimension lol. I guess they class wasn't really "hard" when compared to advanced math/engineering but I just could not retain anything in those classes so I struggled a lot

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32:17 AM EST

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Honors Microbiology- taught at the Vet school

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32:28 AM EST

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Invertebrate paleontology was the most labor-intensive

Final exam was: here's a random hunk of fossil-bearing rock from somewhere on the planet. Identify the species of fossils and the facies from which the rock was taken.

Was in 1997, so you couldn't just Google (or Lycos, Webcrawler, etc) it. Weeks in the library poring over journals dating back to the 1800s, in the lab chipping away at fragments of shells, etc.

I don't know why, but all the other geo courses were comparatively easy...low temp geochem, mineralogy, all the petrology classes, structures, etc. For some reason, I had a tougher time with this invert class.

IIRC, the rock was from the Devonian Haragan Formation of Oklahoma. I remember having a tough time differentiating between various species of brachiopods.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32:38 AM EST

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Organic Chem 2. The teacher wanted to be known as the hardest teacher that ever taught the subject, in the history of the U. As a side note, he got fired a few years later for inappropriate statements made in class, having relations with female students, and having an under performing lab. Suck it AROCCO.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:32:39 AM EST

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My buddy was pre med, and said o chem kicked his ass

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O Chem

First day prof pulled the “half of you will fail” line and he followed through with it.

I got a 54% in Orgo.

It was the highest grade in a class of 125

My buddy was pre med, and said o chem kicked his ass

Organic chemistry is the medical school gatekeeper class in most cases, I believe

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:33:00 AM EST

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Vector Calc (i.e. Calc 3)

Not because the material was incomprehensible... the instructor was. However, if you survived the insanely difficult tests, you did come away with a working knowledge of the material.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:33:37 AM EST

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Warp theory

Am I joking? Am I violating my Top Secret clearance? Doesnt matter. Nobody will believe you.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:33:54 AM EST

[#28]

Agrostology

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:34:25 AM EST

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Electromagnetic Waves and Fields

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:35:09 AM EST

[#30]

Quantitative Analysis 4

efF that class

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:35:58 AM EST

[#31]

Mechanics of Deformable Bodies

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:36:18 AM EST

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Biochemistry was a struggle for me, it was required.

Oddly enough I found organic chemistry fairly straightforward and enjoyable.

Haven't used either of them in a decade or more so I'm confident I'd fail them today.

Edit to add: I hadn't thought about this topic in quite some time and now I'm having flashbacks to the class. It was in the evening and I can still visualize walking into the lecture room preparing to take a test. Fuckin horrible feeling.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:36:49 AM EST

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Posted: 4/10/2019 9:36:52 AM EST

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German 1.

I punted on German and then did 3.5 more years of Spanish.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:37:36 AM EST

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Upper level finance course. I was working full time at the time and it was my only course but I spent every non-class night working finance problems for 4 hours. It was my final course before graduating and the prof allowed me to skip the final.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:37:38 AM EST

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Calc 1.
Not because it was that hard, but the teacher was useless.
Did fine in Calc 2, 3 and DiffEq.

Thermo/Fluids would be a close second, partially for the same reason.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:39:03 AM EST

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Anatomy and physiology

It was required and a PITA

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:39:32 AM EST

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Take a 26 year break between any formal math classes and then go sit in a room with a bunch 18 to 20 year olds for a Math 098 class....that about broke my brain. The Math 110 class was a breeze in comparison. Numbers be hard Yo.

#thestrugglewasreal

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:39:58 AM EST

[#39]

Chem II

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:40:08 AM EST

[#40]

Public Speech. Required course for my major.

I don't mind admitting that standing in front of an audience is the worst ordeal I can imagine, and I've been shot at before.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:40:29 AM EST

[#41]

Arabic 102. A foreign language was required.

ETA - that took 2 attempts to get a C. Econometrics I dropped and never went back. Political philosophy was a stuggle but got a 1st time C.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:40:33 AM EST

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Physical Chemistry. It was taught by an old engineer who used CGS units instead of SI, like every other class. I switched from a Chemistry major to a Biochem major so I would only have to take one semester of PChem. Then I went to law school

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:40:35 AM EST

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Intro to financial accounting. At the time, it had the second highest failure rate of all undergrad classes on campus. (highest was Organic chemistry)

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:41:19 AM EST

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Operational amplifiers. I dont know i could have avoided taking it or not.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:43:58 AM EST

[#45]

Statistics and Exercise Physiology

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:44:41 AM EST

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Hypersonic Aerospace Propulsive Flows, a grad course I took as an elective while in undergrad. Would have been better if I did not take it at the same time as thermo and fluid.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:45:38 AM EST

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Chem 109(Weedout class for pre-vet and pre-med)
Advanced genetics(Just fucking hard)

The amount of Chem I use now is fully covered by the 7th grade.

I stopped using genetics after our 2nd son was born.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:47:41 AM EST

[#48]

Intro to Shakespeare. It was like learning a new language.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:48:57 AM EST

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Organic Chemistry II - Baylor University

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:49:02 AM EST

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Undergrad?

What the hell is that?

I graduated Highschool. I never even took the SATs.

Neat!

I hated school. I did go to college but never finished. Saddest thing about it was that it was the first time in my educational career that I was a straight a student. Sometimes I wish I would've gone back and finished.

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