Hellobee Boards

Metalsmithing! It was an elective course I wasn't even supposed to get into (but I begged the professor) and holy crap, it kicked my ass! It was common to find fellow classmates in there past midnight! I spent so much time in that workroom it's ridiculous!

Biochemistry. I took it in undergrad and grad school, and both times I sucked at it. I think the material is so interesting, but the tests were impossible. The only reason passed in both cases was because all tests had a giant curve.

Bioresource modeling. The professor was great, but the class was so challenging. It was about how you can use economic theory to model biological resources....we mostly focused on fisheries, but also talked about harvesting forests. For example, if the north atlantic cod fishery is estimated to be of a certain size, and we introduce new fishing technology, and it is estimated that x number of boats will adopt this technology while Y number of boats continue using the old technology, what will the impact be on the cod population? Then we had to determine what kinds of catch limits to place on the fisherman, and at what point would it be beyond repair, etc etc. It was a mix of stats, economics and biology (knowing how fast and how efficient things are at reproducing, etc). It was SO challenging but SO interesting. I worked my ass off, and got a B+, and I'm way prouder of that grade than I am of any of my As.

organic chemistry - i'm not even kidding, i still have actual nightmares about this class.

seconding organic chem. I was already a working English teacher who had a bright idea to go back to school for a minor in Biology, which required 4 chemistry classes. Ugh. I remember sleeping on a nasty, stained library couch more than once, because by the time I was done studying, it didn't make sense to drive all the way home and back by my 8 am lab.

yuck. yuck.

Descrete Math. I still have no idea what that class was about. And I can't remember what possessed me to take that horrible class.

@grizz: I loved Organic chemistry. Learn the basic rules then approach everything like a small logic problem. No memorization, no crazy notes, just simple rules. If you have a good teacher, they'll break it down for you.

Oh, I have one more. Animal anatomy and physiology. It literally was the nail in the coffin of me becoming a vet. We had dogs in the lab and they were all dogs who had been put down at the animal shelter. It broke my heart, I left crying and dropped the class. I just couldn't handle it!

I took human a&p for nursing school and didn't mind it at all. The human cadavers didn't bother me since they were old people that donated their bodies to science!

Chemistry! The class was taught by 3 different teachers, all of which were foreign and extremely hard to understand. I barely passed and I was a straight A student before.

I didn't have to take a lot of science classes, and the ones I did were pretty easy. But in college I learned that I am terrible with memorization. I took an art history class about Ancient Greek art. It was a huge lecture class at Columbia, and the teacher had a strong accent, which was difficult to understand. But for every exam we had to memorize the artist, date, and style of hundreds of pieces of identical looking (to me) pottery and sculptures.

I took the class pass/fail, so I don't actually know how I did, other than that I passed (probably by the skin of my teeth). I am having flashbacks to the giant stacks of flash cards I made. It was awful.

Calculus! I had to drop out and even changed my major since it required Calculus! HATED that class - funny thing is I was always great at math but couldn't figure out calculus!