Toughest class on campus...
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If I didn't drop it three weeks in, Drawing 3 was setting up to the hardest class I would have ever taken. It met 6 hours a week, and I would have had to at least double that outside of class to finish the in class stuff. Then there was like 10 hours of homework every week. It didn't help that the teacher was a ****.
There was some Math class 365 or 415 ... Complex numbers analysis or something like that. absolutely brutal.
mostly because of the lack of a curve, that's just uncalled for. As I remember no one got above a B - it was like a concentration camp
mostly because of the lack of a curve, that's just uncalled for. As I remember no one got above a B - it was like a concentration camp
CS 311 algorithms, was a difficult class to start (prolly not my most difficult, but still hard), but they lumped first year CS grad students in as a prereq to CS 511 (graduate algorithms) into it and they curved us all on the same curve. 90% on the exams got me a C. Luckily they offered some extra assignments to undergrads right at the end of the class (after most people dropped) that got me back up above a B.
Genetics 320 for me. Also known as Agronomy 320. I was so far in over my head in that class. I just remember getting a D- and celebrating because I past. I am an agronomist in real life now and have used absolutely NOTHING form that course in real life.
I didn't even go that far. Just copy off the overachiever on your floor an hour or so before it must be turned in.
There are different kinds of "tough" classes. For me 2 stand out. Calc 3 was the toughest from the 'most difficult to wrap my head around' angle as well as the 'lowest percentile grading scale' aspect. I think I finished around 30% and got a D+, I think an A was 50% and above.
German 200 level looked like it would be the 'toughest' from the most effort and work standpoint. 5 credit class, lots of assignments every day. I dropped it after a week. Far too time consuming for an engineering major.
German 200 level looked like it would be the 'toughest' from the most effort and work standpoint. 5 credit class, lots of assignments every day. I dropped it after a week. Far too time consuming for an engineering major.
435 was crazy, 3 hr lecture, 3 hr lab... plus Geiger's labs took about 6 extra hours to finish, at the time. And he was apparently cutting back starting with us. Maybe its decent nowadays. Then his HW was around a 6 hr ordeal weekly...
Man, I was crazy to do an independent study with him. And to think I was considering staying for a masters under him. I wanted to learn mixed signal.
In vet school though the classes are more practical. Chem 332 was flat out stuff that people will never use unless you are a chemist and even then I wonder the usefulness. Biochem in vet school with Beitz was a lot of memorization of metabolic pathways etc.
GDCB 510, Transmission Genetics. Its taught by 5 professors, each one writes tests differently. All they do is assign a journal article each class about some super rare genetic phenomenon and then test you about it.
Agron 561, Quantitative Genetics. Formulas to predict genetic potential.
I was so lost in both of those classes, I got a C+ in both. Worst part is that I will never use anything from them.
Agron 561, Quantitative Genetics. Formulas to predict genetic potential.
I was so lost in both of those classes, I got a C+ in both. Worst part is that I will never use anything from them.
Never quite made it to VLSI (Analog or Digital).. as a comp E, was difficult to get the prerequisites. Heard this class was unbelievably difficult.
Surprised nobody mentioned Diff EQ yet... that class sucked.
Otherwise, let's see....
Com Sci Algorithms class and EE 224 (Signals & Systems I) were both pretty tough for me as well.. Algorithms never really ever made any sense, and I hated our book. And Signals and Systems, well... It just takes me longer to fully grasp math-heavy stuff than other people, and I'm a poor test taker.
Not exactly at ISU, but graduate reaction engineering is kicking my ***. The only class I had at ISU that comes close in terms of how much it takes to get a good grade is Chem 332. In terms of amount of work, the second Chem E lab pretty much ate up all my time for a semester.
Phys 221 for me. I bombed that class twice, and the second time wasn't from a lack of studying. In fact, I even did worse the second time. It's not that I didn't get the concepts in the class - I got those just fine. I just absolutely suck at math theory. No matter how much I ever have studied for it, I have never been able to take 2+ equations off an equation sheet and combine them in a fashion to get the necessary equation to solve a problem. It's the whole reason why I also bombed Math 165 - the guy taught it from a "math theory" perspective, and basically told us up front that if we couldn't learn it the way he taught it that we weren't going to pass his class.
