Philosophy 101 was godawful until we told the guy halfway through the semester it was awful and then he changed his teaching style to Socratic and it became interesting
But the worst was Music theory 101. I had to fulfill an art requirement and I don’t paint or act etc so took the class. Now granted I’d been playing an instrument since I was five so I knew beats clefs notes etc. I distinctly remember clapping my hands during the rhythm class and wanting to beat my head against the table to keep beat. And yes attendance was taken and counted towards your grade so I couldn’t ditch. One of the few classes I took that had more than one in season athlete in it too since it was super easy to take in season.
I took a 19th Century European Art Renaissance class. I was an accounting/math major. It was brutal. Not sure what I was thinking taking that class. I must’ve needed an elective and that was at an appealing day and time.
I was able to take it Pass/Fail so I put in the minimum effort necessary for a Pass. I daydreamed or slept through most of the class and homework.
I remember deliberately adding some caffeine to my breakfast whenever I had to wake up for a computer science class on networks that was taught by an electrical engineering professor who must’ve been more disinterested in the material than any of us…
Most boring- Organic Chemistry
Most interesting- Oddly enough, Business Law
Funny enough, Ochem I and II were my most favorite courses. I actually went switched into biochem and worked as an organic chemist after college for a few years because I found it really fun…
Most boring were the math classes, by far. Man did i get sick of plug and chugging all day long…
Most boring- Organic Chemistry
Most interesting- Oddly enough, Business Law
Funny enough, Ochem I and II were my most favorite courses. I actually went switched into biochem and worked as an organic chemist after college for a few years because I found it really fun…
Most boring were the math classes, by far. Man did i get sick of plug and chugging all day long…
My roommate was a biochem major. I learned much more organic chemistry from him than I did my professor.
Probs and Stats was probably the most boring, but honestly, almost 25 years after college, almost none of the classes left much of a long term impression.
whatever the title of the “phys ed for students with special needs” course was, tied with the graduate student seminar course, tied with Theories of Teaching
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The basic English course that Freshmen were required to take. They used Paradise Lost as a vehicle for teaching basic writing. God, I hated that stuff.
I took a 19th Century European Art Renaissance class. I was an accounting/math major. It was brutal. Not sure what I was thinking taking that class. I must’ve needed an elective and that was at an appealing day and time.
I was able to take it Pass/Fail so I put in the minimum effort necessary for a Pass. I daydreamed or slept through most of the class and homework.
One semester of organic chemistry was pretty dull. But o chem didn’t come naturally to me and if you fell behind you were fucked, so I had to pay attention and work. It was dull but required sustained engagement, for me at least, which in a way makes it marginally less boring.
Winner was probably an enlightenment lit seminar. I liked literature courses and they weren’t hard for me, but the prof was a disaster. He’d been a minor academic stud in his younger years, but was an emeritus dinosaur by the time I had him - he just droned on and on. There were only about a dozen of us in the seminar so there was nowhere to hide. You didn’t have to work hard, but you had to try to look engaged all the time, seated around something like a large dinner table in an interior seminar room with no windows.
It was brutal. I only stayed in because there was a hot, smart girl in the class. But she dropped the class the last week you could do so without penalty, and by the time I realized she had bailed I couldn’t bail too without my transcript taking a hit. So I stuck it out.
I tried to take as many non-major science classes as electives as possible (biology/ chemistry double major). I loved courses like meteorology and astronomy. But sociology as a science(?) seemed like ‘we’re making this up as we go along’ disguised as science. It was a horrible course.