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Posted: 4/10/2019 9:55:30 AM EDT

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

Was the class a required part of your major?

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:57:28 AM EDT

[#1]

calculus 3

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:57:33 AM EDT

[#2]

Data Structures. Discrete Math a distant second but even that was HAF. C's get degrees!

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:59:39 AM EDT

[#3]

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.

Posted: 4/10/2019 9:59:44 AM EDT

[#4]

Business Calc, hadn't taken a math class in 9 years, had to refresh my memory on EVERYTHING.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:00:15 AM EDT

[#5]

Comparative vertebrate anatomy or medicinal chemistry. They were different kinds of hard

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:01:00 AM EDT

[#6]

Mass transport phenomena.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:01:31 AM EDT

[#7]

Javascript class.

It wasn't so much the class itself but the teacher, he had the most barebones understanding of the english language. In addition I was thrown into a group with 3 potheads which made me seriously question how they got into that class in the first place.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:02:55 AM EDT

[#8]

Statistics

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:02:57 AM EDT

[#9]

A tie between tax accounting and intermediate accounting 2.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:03:36 AM EDT

[#10]

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Business Calc

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This

Never have had to use any of it after all that studying.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:05 AM EDT

[#11]

Accounting 230 & 240.

Miserable.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:05 AM EDT

[#12]

Calculus or physics.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:19 AM EDT

[#13]

Linear Regression Modeling. The math broke my brain a little.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:39 AM EDT

[#14]

English...

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:52 AM EDT

[#15]

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Data Structures. Discrete Math a distant second but even that was HAF. C's get degrees!

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Discrete math was tough, both the topic and the professor.

Discrete math, data structures and logic were lumped into the same class. It was a set of two courses that sort of ran together. It all felt very poorly planned.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:04:58 AM EDT

[#16]

math is racist

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:05:01 AM EDT

[#17]

Intro to FORTRAN. Anyone else remember IBM punch cards?

I am old.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:05:14 AM EDT

[#18]

Business cal.
That was the stupidest shit ever. I’m NEVER gonna use that shit!
It was the biggest fucking waste of time and money.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:06:06 AM EDT

[#19]

Calc 3 and PChem.

Those are by far the most difficult undergrad classes in the science/math world.

Only other ones that compare were grad level ChemE classes. They were a special kind of impossible. Took groups of 5 to solve 1 problem a week for homework. The tests were 4 hrs and were usually 2-3 problems.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:06:50 AM EDT

[#20]

It was a 4 or 5 credit hour calc course.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:06:52 AM EDT

[#21]

Thermodynamics

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:07:05 AM EDT

[#22]

Intermediate Accounting

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:07:47 AM EDT

[#23]

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Mass transport phenomena.

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

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:07:57 AM EDT

[#24]

Unix II

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:08:03 AM EDT

[#25]

dynamics of machines

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:08:23 AM EDT

[#26]

When I was an undergrad, I took some grad classes. Advanced Game Theory in the econ department was definitely the toughest. I was taking 21 credits (7 classes) and that one class took more time and effort than the six other classes combined.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:09:18 AM EDT

[#27]

3-D calculus sucked ass. Some of the nastier math just requires a kind of intuition I (apparently) lack.

Computational linguistics was hard, but for some reason I was good at it.

Early American Political Thought was a shitload of writing, but one of the best (elective) classes I took.

The graduate courses I took as an undergrad were easier (complexity theory, algorithms)

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:10:25 AM EDT

[#28]

Algorithm analysis or DifEQ. They both sucked.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:10:41 AM EDT

[#29]

Calc 3- toughest, and it was what burned me out on aero engineering, and I used to love math before this class. Changed my major to my other favorite subject, history.

Medieval History

- I love the subject, but the professor was about 80yo, Eastern European, sounded like he always had marbles in his mouth when talking, and would lapse into Latin with no warning.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:10:45 AM EDT

[#30]

Toss up: Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Calculus. Accounting class after engineering made me want to throw things though...

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:10:49 AM EDT

[#31]

Circuits. Fucking hated it.

Calc 2 took me two tries, but somehow everything clicked during Diff-Eq and I walked out with a B without much frustration.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:11:05 AM EDT

[#32]

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Calc 3 and PChem.

Those are by far the most difficult undergrad classes in the science/math world.

Only other ones that compare were grad level ChemE classes. They were a special kind of impossible. Took groups of 5 to solve 1 problem a week for homework. The tests were 4 hrs and were usually 2-3 problems.

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Orgo is tougher than Calc 3

It requires a completely different way of thinking to understand the concepts.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:11:05 AM EDT

[#33]

Quantum Mechanics followed closely by Fluid Dynamics

If you didn't get the calculus, linear algebra and differential equations Quantum Mechanics is impossible

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:11:21 AM EDT

[#34]

Calc 2

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:11:47 AM EDT

[#35]

None were that difficult. Got all As.

(I’m a graphic designer

)

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:11:58 AM EDT

[#36]

Anatomy and physiology.

Oh boy ...

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:12:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Heat and Mass Transfer.

I got an A in Thermodynamics, but H&MT was a PITA.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:12:24 AM EDT

[#38]

Dynamics for me. Differential Equations in grad school though, but I still haven't figured out if it was the awful instructor or the topic.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:13:08 AM EDT

[#39]

Quote History

Quoted:
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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+1 so nice, I took it twice.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:13:36 AM EDT

[#40]

Options and futures. Learning to price them and creating trading strategies with pen and paper was a pain.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:13:40 AM EDT

[#41]

Strength of Materials.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:14:31 AM EDT

[#42]

hardest class I passed?

calc 3

hardest class failed?

diff eq

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:07 AM EDT

[#43]

Dynamic Systems and Control
What made it tough, beyond solving the complex differentials created during modelling, was the Asian professor teaching it.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:38 AM EDT

[#44]

Electromagnetic Theory. That course made me decide to change majors from Electrical Engineering to something easier called Math.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:51 AM EDT

[#45]

#1 Computer architecture. We were doing complex math in Binary, Octal, and Hex. Something I have never done in my entire adult life. Compiler and debugger technologies have made everything in that class obsolete.

#2 Differential equations. Another one I have never used in my entire adult life. I use Trig, Algebra, and Geometry a lot.

Side note, I am pretty good at reading HEX, Octal, and Binary, just don't ask me to do math without my HP 16C

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:51 AM EDT

[#46]

Intermediate Accounting I

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:53 AM EDT

[#47]

Quote History

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Intro to FORTRAN. Anyone else remember IBM punch cards?

I am old.

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I took it but we used terminal instead of punchcards. Still had to indent 7 spaces?

Had an A but the finally project wouldn’t work. I went to the instructor weeks before it was due, he couldn’t find the problem either. Asshole gave me a C.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:15:54 AM EDT

[#48]

Linear Algebra. The version for dumbass engineers wasn't available the semester I needed it, so it was either A) take the higher level version for math majors or B) wait another semester to take one class before graduating. I chose option A, and well..."D" is for diploma, right?

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:16:18 AM EDT

[#49]

DiffEq, Calc 3 were not bad at all for me. We had to take a Comms class on the math behind signal modulation/encryption etc and an Electric/Magnetic Fields class as part of the EE curriculum. They both really sucked.

It is funny sometimes how course difficulty can vary school to school as well.

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#1 Computer architecture. We were doing complex math in Binary, Octal, and Hex. Something I have never done in my entire adult life. Compiler and debugger technologies have made everything in that class obsolete.

#2 Differential equations. Another one I have never used in my entire adult life. I use Trig, Algebra, and Geometry a lot.

Side note, I am pretty good at reading HEX, Octal, and Binary, just don't ask me to do math without my HP 16C

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We still had do do an assembly language class that incorporated all of that.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:16:19 AM EDT

[#50]

O Chem

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

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