Post by: Monkeyleg on October 07, 2006, 01:43:19 PM
For me it was shop class. Give me a piece of wood and any kind of tool, and it's a disaster just waiting to happen. The shop class teacher gave me a D, since he didn't want to ruin what was otherwise a very, very good GPA.
I also didn't do particularly well in the one art class I took, which was odd, since I could draw better than most people. Also odd because I later became a successful photographer.
Post by: grislyatoms on October 07, 2006, 01:55:49 PM
I loved the subject matter, but this class came right after lunch and there was this sun beam that hit me just perfectly through the window.
ZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzz.
Post by: MillCreek on October 07, 2006, 02:03:08 PM
Post by: Unisaw on October 07, 2006, 02:04:03 PM
Post by: J.J. on October 07, 2006, 02:14:57 PM
I have retaken each spanish that I am required to take atleast once if not more.
Post by: Marnoot on October 07, 2006, 02:16:35 PM
Post by: SpookyPistolero on October 07, 2006, 02:45:04 PM
Post by: garyk/nm on October 07, 2006, 02:48:03 PM
Post by: Iain on October 07, 2006, 03:05:29 PM
College - Krebs cycle stuff in biology. Probably biology all round, but did ok in the end.
University - economic history. Just because I hated it. The module I ended up writing an essay about infanticide for was pretty bad too.
Post by: spinr on October 07, 2006, 04:07:25 PM
Most. boring. class. ever.
I absolutely couldn't stand it.
There were three things that contributed to me bombing the hell out of that class.
The professor being a complete & utter fruit. Me not caring about the subject matter in the least. And it being scheduled for 2:00 P.M, right when my afternoon napage kicked in.
If it were possible to get less than an F in that class, I would have.
Post by: Guest on October 07, 2006, 04:52:31 PM
Post by: Sindawe on October 08, 2006, 07:39:41 AM
In undergrad: Calculus (required for my degree). Had to take it twice to get a decent grade.
Biology (organismal and molecular), Chemistry (inorganic, organic and bio) and Physics (only took Newtonian) were all a modest challenge to master, but no real struggle. Beyond Algebra? I simply don't have the head for advanced mathematics.
Post by: Werewolf on October 08, 2006, 07:58:19 AM
Needless to say we didn't get along and when I wouldn't regurgitate the crap he vomited forth - well - I was lucky to get a C. Lowest grade I ever got in my college career.
In HS Calculus blew me away - barely passed. The wierd thing is when I took it in college it all made sense and I got an A. Seems like my brain processed all that HS material offline and when I took it again it was a piece of cake.
Post by: SomeKid on October 08, 2006, 08:17:15 AM
Quote from: SpookyPistolero
I missed a handful of classes, and didn't know that if you missed more than 3 in class quizzes, you automatically failed. I can imagine few obituaries I would read with as much satisfaction as that professor's.
Man, that sucks. My PSY101 prof did not care if we ever came to class. We could literally skip every class, and still get an A. (Grades based purely on tests.)For me, it would have to be any art/foriegn language type class. If I have to draw, I am dead. If it involves saying stuff in another language, it ain't happening. It all sounds like 'bar bar bar bar' to me.
Post by: Antibubba on October 08, 2006, 08:39:16 AM
But the one that appalled me to fail was Deductive Logic. Even with tutoring, it was completely beyond me. I still think they gave me a Philosophy degree anyway just to get rid of me.
Post by: DrAmazon on October 08, 2006, 08:54:20 AM
College: Did great in calculus, got a D in Organic Chemistry I the first time I took it. Re-took it my junior year, one year older and with a much clearer idea of WHY I was in college. Fixed the grade, got on Dean's List and stayed on it until I graduated.
I am currently a Chemistry Professor, teaching Organic Chemistry!!!
Post by: Vodka7 on October 08, 2006, 09:53:39 AM
In college, I'd probably have to say the James Joyce class I took. The first two weeks were easy enough--all I had to do was read The Odyssey for about the sixth time in my schooling career. But after that, it was Ulysses, and nothing but Ulysses. And I have never struggled so hard in my life to write such bad papers. One time I lurched in to class after an especially hair pulling episode, unshaven, unwashed, to hand in my paper, and he greated me with "Ahhh, Mr. McGinn, fresh off the presses I presume?" To which I wittily replied "Hrghmmbldgrgrgr" and flopped in a seat in the shade.
For I reason I never fully figured out, he still gave me an A in the class, despite my papers never having gotten better than a B+. I think my girlfriend at the time reminded him of one of his ex-wives and he just took pity on me.
Post by: JAlexander on October 08, 2006, 10:46:18 AM
Now that I think back on it, those two experiences contributed to me dropping out of college. On the other hand, I did finally go back and graduate, and y'all cannot imagine my joy when I found that that phonetics class was no longer part of the graduation requirements. Huzzah.
James
Post by: Guest on October 08, 2006, 11:41:14 AM
Post by: MillCreek on October 08, 2006, 12:04:45 PM
Quote from: DrAmazon
I am currently a Chemistry Professor, teaching Organic Chemistry!!!
So is Morrison and Boyd still the standard text? (Owner of a MSc in analytical chemistry from way, way back in the early 80's. So long ago that I used an Apple IIc to drive the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer for my thesis work.)
Post by: Monkeyleg on October 08, 2006, 12:13:09 PM
The course was all about "anti-story," a style of literature that was very unconventional.
The class consisted of the usual beret-wearing, pipe-smoking intellectuals that I'd see at East Side coffee houses. I quickly grew bored with the class, and irritated at the students, as they had no grasp of the real world.
Our semester project was to write a story emulating the style of John Barth (IIRC), the author who started the style of anti-story.
So, I wrote my story. In it, I described every member of the class, including the professor. And using some very obscene terms. I insulted every one of them.
The next week, the professor--Cam Tathum--cradled the students' papers in his arm. He held up my story.
"This..." he said. I was waiting for the hammer to fall.
"This is IT!"
I aced the class by insulting the professor and the students.
What a maroon.
Post by: mfree on October 08, 2006, 01:38:39 PM
I bet every single paper that professor ever got that described him or the other students was some snivelling suck-up piece. You stole the show
Post by: Mabs2 on October 08, 2006, 02:04:07 PM
Especially in High School.
Failed the first Algebra class you can get twice...finally made it through the third time.
Post by: Monkeyleg on October 08, 2006, 05:37:55 PM
One thing about so-called "intellectuals" is that they're so focused on esoterics that the plainly obvious escapes them. Or, as George Orwell said, "some ideas are so outrageous that they can only be embraced by intellectuals."
Slice-of-life anecdote: about the same time I was taking the literature class, I ran into my film history professor at a supermarket.
I was standing before rows and rows of Campbell's soup cans, trying to find the cheddar cheese soup that, combined with a box of noodles, constituted my diet.
I remarked to her that it would be much easier to find the soup, and Campbell's would probably sell more of their products, if each soup had a distinctive label, rather than the generic Campbell's logo.
She just looked at me like I'd just stepped off an alien spacecraft.
Post by: Perd Hapley on October 08, 2006, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: Vodka7
In college, I'd probably have to say the James Joyce class I took.
If forced to take a class on that hack, I'd fail in protest.
Post by: Phyphor on October 08, 2006, 06:55:30 PM
Quote from: J.J.
Spanish
I have retaken each spanish that I am required to take atleast once if not more.
No *expletive deleted*it, I had 1 quarter of that crap during my high school years...and I remember maybe 1% of it all.
I have retaken each spanish that I am required to take atleast once if not more.
Post by: doczinn on October 08, 2006, 09:47:12 PM
Post by: Firethorn on October 09, 2006, 04:48:53 AM
It was amazing. One paragraph and I was gagging, trying to vomit.
I ended up teaching the Korean kids in summer school.
Post by: mtnbkr on October 09, 2006, 05:00:39 AM
French kicked my arse in HS, but I learned some valuable lessons on study methods thanks to the teacher. She was a big fan of "studying with a pencil", a lesson that has helped greatly ever since.
Chris
Post by: DrAmazon on October 09, 2006, 04:41:54 PM
Quote from: MillCreek
Quote from: DrAmazon
I am currently a Chemistry Professor, teaching Organic Chemistry!!!
So is Morrison and Boyd still the standard text? (Owner of a MSc in analytical chemistry from way, way back in the early 80's. So long ago that I used an Apple IIc to drive the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer for my thesis work.)
Post by: crt360 on October 10, 2006, 12:23:20 PM
Family law. I totally knew the material, but I didn't see the last page of the exam until it was time to put down our pens and hand in our blue books.
Classes I should have done the worst in: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - I read all the stuff, went to class, participated in the discussions, but I never was quite sure what we were talking about. Fortunately, no one else seemed to be either, so my grade wasn't too bad. Constitutional Law - As if the course does not already lend itself to being one of law school's most boring, having a professor that thinks he has figured it all out in a way that deviates from the casebook and most other material on the subject is a recipe for disaster. Again I was saved by group confoundment.
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on October 10, 2006, 05:18:04 PM
Post by: Guest on October 10, 2006, 07:44:52 PM