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Argentina from Peron to the Dirty War. It was the capstone course of my Latin American studies minor and while I knew it would be difficult, I didn't know just how complex 40 years of history could be. The professor was one of the foremost researchers in the study of the time period. In fact, I had read many of her books and articles in past courses and independent reading on the topic. I thought it would be an interesting course to study under a famous historian.
Wrong. It was an interesting course and the professor was phenomenal, but she decided that she was going to assign much of the coursework in Spanish. I lived in Mexico for a semester, but that had been more than a year before and I was *nowhere* near ready to read complex first-person documents in the language. I spent many hours in the Boston Public Library in tears surrounded by Spanish books from the time period and a whole bunch of dictionaries. It was the hardest I have ever worked for a B in my life! And quite worth it - my knowledge of Spanish greatly increased. And if I'm ever on Jeopardy and get a question about the Argentine political system in the 1970s, I've got that covered!
Other difficult classes were the computer programming classes I took (Intro to C and XML & Related Languages) because I took them at the wrong time (senior year of college with no previous programming knowledge and a summer online course shortly after ending chemo, respectively). I think had my mind been fresher and I had less going on in my life, I might have been more successful at both. In fact, I'm taking a few more CS classes in a post-bach program that the university I work for offers. Free classes? Why not!
A long time ago but philosophy. And I thought it would be easy.
Lol, this makes me laugh because I thought the same thing. I always struggled with math and science, so I stayed as far away from it as possible. However, I did have to take at least 1 math class to fulfill my math requirement, so I took a class called Informal Logic that the Philosophy department offered. I was attracted to it, because there were no numbers involved. So I thought it'd be a breeze. Yea right! Probably one of the hardest classes I took and I only passed because the Prof. gave good curves on exams. It was like solving algebra problems, but using sentences instead of letters and numbers. It was awful.
Wasn't a full course, but queueing theory was the subject where math just stopped making sense. I sorta-learned it by brute force, but parts of my brain were crying out in protest every step of the way.
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