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toughest university course?
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What is the toughest course you've had to take in college?
Mine would be either Organic Chem or Constitutional Law- got C's in both and was happy
Mine would be either Organic Chem or Constitutional Law- got C's in both and was happy
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I know people reckon it's a doss, but I get more notes, more exams, harder subjects, more coursework than any other subject. AND we have to do assessed practical aswell. All the other people who do P.E., who also do lots of different subjects also find it their hardest subject.
need i say more? maybe this qualifies for entrance into the music biz!
I did chemistry (dropped it in the second year, not beacuse it was too hard but beacause it was the least relevant subject) and I found PE harder.....
Maths wasn't too bad. Further Maths. Eeek.
Chemistry. Ye gods
quantum physics and fun do not belong in the same sentence
Quantums physics and particle physics is an abstraction. If you try and think about it in real terms, then it becomes difficult. If you don't, I found it much easier. Trying to operationalise particle physics is difficult, yes. Abstraction is not.
I guess it was one of those topics I took to. I had a superb teacher, who gave us all enthusiasm, even for gases or boring stuff. We did mad things - he taught us how to derive relativity, and build nuclear weapons. That kind of thing.
*wonders whether he can still derive relativity eqns.*
It's good. Fun. Honestly.
How can you not be amused by the property of a property being "strangeness"?
Apocryphal story goes that physicists observed the particle behaviour, and said "that's strange".
Other such "physicist's witticism" includes;
areas in particle physics; barn, shed. Called a barn, because not hitting the area of an electron with the accelerators was likened to missing a barn door with a shotgun... Shed is smaller than a barn, obviously.
Colour of quarks.
Direction of quarks. (Up, down, strange,
charmed, and anti up, anti down, anti strange and anti charm)
Shake - three nanoseconds. "Three shakes of a lamb's tail", very short time.
A computing example - a byte is a defined unit of memory, yes? What's half a byte (or a quarter - I can't remember) - it's a nybble.
Quite.
Maths
Further Maths
English Lang/Lit
Physics
PE or Chemistry (AS)
Predicted A for all of em at GCSE but I'm still nervous...
MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) a 12 week course with 4 exams (each MCP certified), each giving you letters after your name and shite loads of stuff you have to learn, its silly... like folders and folders to learn each week then a random test on each one...
http://www.microsoft.com/mcsa/
Its really hard work....
Apart from my DJ course, which I completely enjoyed and genuinely wanted to do, the other courses I've done (ie. Combat Medical Technician etc.) and School I've never really been bothered about and not studied for, except for this MCSA which if I didn't I would never pass...
This is for three reasons;
(1) It's a mixture between arts and sciences, which means you write essays, do classes and practicals and all that nonsense.
(2) It's mulitdisciplinary. So far this year, I have been respectively;
-an historian,
-a mathematician,
-an english student - all those essays
-a demographer,
-a physicist,
-a meteorologist,
-a photographic interpreter,
-a radar image interpreter,
-a Marxist
-a capitalist
-post structuralist, post colonialist approach-ist
and, within my own discipline, an ecologist, climatologist, hydrologist, geomorphologist, empiricist, and cartographer.
(3) No other subject gets taken the mickey out of so much. After doing all that, we get told that all we do is colour in, and that to get a First, we have to not go over the lines.
Tch.
I am a Geographer.
I actually quite like the subject - this is very much tongue in cheek.
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Couldn't agree with you more. I'm majoring in Econ and International Relations and had to take some Political Economy classes. Christ! Basically you had to take all the knowledge that you ever learned on ANY of those classes and use it to analyze incredibly huge economic systems. Not to mention the formulae, which are so confusing as to give little 'ol me a huge headache before any test.
At Uni, Mechanics, Statistics, Maths and Control have been my most difficult modules. All of them have involved hard sums. Any school kids who think they'll never use trig and calculus are dead wrong.
What about learning useful things like politics and current affairs, which are not taught, yet you are expected to vote at 18.
Working in a shop doesn't take quite as much effort as designing a billion-pound aircraft carrier or a robot or an aeroplane or a bridge...
As for politics, don't they teach Modern Studies in England? Its basically politics and current affairs. You can do it in Scotland. My little brother did it for a Standard Grade.
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I think Computer Science is another name for Applied Maths.
My friend's chemistry degree looks hard, though.
Hey Im doing an economics degree. Don't know about you but when I started I was quite suprised at the amount of maths involved at a microeconomic level which made it quite hard. Im starting macro module now which should be more interesting