What was your hardest course in college and why? (computer science, degrees, MBA)

[otherredfish]

Originally Posted by athena53

Advanced Calculus. It was the only D I ever got and I worked darn hard for it!

Was yours a theory course? My Advanced Calculus was killer! My husband would look at my work and wonder where the numbers were . I worked super hard for that D!

[Harpaint]

Organic chemistry

[Greybear]

I majored in chemistry even though I never took any physics or chemistry in high school and essentially failed all high school math. I struggled to get going, but I’d say linear algebra really got me good. I should have taken differential equations instead. I did very well in calculus though.

Once I got to grad school I hit my stride, what a great experience it was.The hardest in grad school was a toss up between cumulative exams and advanced quantum mechanics. Both were only required of us PhD students. Although the content was much more advanced than anything in undergrad, it wasn’t as difficult for me to be successful at it.

[cornsnicker3]

Actually Difficult: C++ - Hardest B I had ever worked for. Hate is a strong work and I HATED programming. I could do Calculus, Diff. Eq., Fluids, Thermo, etc. like the back of my hand. Programming was not my thing.

Situationally Difficult: Introduction to Catalysis - I was burned out of graduate school and this class was taught in such a way that it royally kicked my butt. Lowest grade in my college career, B-.

[PamelaIamela]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

I'd have to say it's a tie between organic chemistry and molecular biology.

Lots of brute force memorization of complex chains of reactions and/or rules. I found physics to be more straightforward. A handful of concepts that just kept popping up repeatedly in different but related topics.

Yeah, organic was brutal, especially since I took no chem in HS. Fortunately I did better in qual and quantitative analysis which used math. (Math made more sense to me, but then I had five years of it in High School!)

English, Language, and History were interesting and valuable but often taught rather poorly at my college.

The social sciences - excepting economics - was pure fluff and a source of pride only IMO to weaker minds who bullpooped their way very successfully thru it.

[BarstowC]

I have a BS/MS in Civil Engineering. My hardest class was Speech 101 because I hated getting up in front of a class.

[gt87]

Calculus was by far the toughest for me. I honestly had no clue what I was doing the whole class. Somehow I ended up with a D in that class. Made me mad because I would have graduated summa *** laude if I received at least a C but the D knocked me down to magna.

[Fisherman99]

Started out in Bio-Med (Brutal Program-a year quicker than normal Pre Med) at UC Riverside long ago. Got a C in General Chemistry freshman year and worked my butt off...was so discouraged that I switched to Business Administration (Berkeley only other UC to have it back then) and never looked back!


Did get a C minus in Calculus one quarter...difficult subject with a Chinese Professor...HEAVY accent didn't help.


Also got a D in Upper Level Managerial Accounting...challenging subject!


Did better in all other Business Administration Classes (Econ (Macro and Micro), General Accounting, Statistics, MIS, Management, Corporate Finance, etc. enough to somewhat redeem myself to a 3.1 overall GPA.

[TabulaRasa]

The statistics portion of research design and analysis in my grad program. Mainly because I'd been out of school for 16 years when I started my master's, and it had been even younger since I touched a stats curriculum. Love research, hate stats.

[warren zee]

philosophy. I don't remember why, but it didn't make sense.