Ever have one of those classes that just made you say 'What in the fuck have I gotten myself into? For me it's Biochem. This is literally my face for the entire time I've been taking this class. What have I done. Your turn.

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Anonymous Mon May 31 16:14:43 2010 No.1070869 [Reply] [Original]

Ever have one of those classes that just made you say 'What in the fuck have I gotten myself into?

For me it's Biochem.

This is literally my face for the entire time I've been taking this class. What have I done.

Your turn.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:17:43 2010 No.1070925 Electricity and Magnetism The whole thing can be summed up in one green text >black magic

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:18:43 2010 No.1070938 same as you op also molecular structure herpa derp moving helixes and sheets

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:19:43 2010 No.1070953 the world ocean its not hard at all, but ive never had so much trouble reading something so fucking boring

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:21:43 2010 No.1070982 >>1070925 btw I am not kidding. There is literally shit that even my own professor would look like an idiot trying to explain.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:21:43 2010 No.1070998 File: 11 KB, 389x388, 1274209907787.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1070953

Anonymous Mon May 31 16:21:43 2010 No.1070987

I had a class in Logic. Normally this would not have been a problem but the teacher was batshit crazy. He was 90 years old, senile as hell and probably a paranoid schizophrenic. He would stop his lectures to ramble about how he used to work at Princeton with Einstein and how they played practical jokes on people. Then he would put a black magic curse on the class before tests and claim that you would go bald if you cheated. He would also talk to people who weren't there, and couldn't answer any questions because he was stone deaf.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:21:43 2010 No.1070991 I haven't had a class like that, but after briefly looking through the statics book I have to use for next semester I would say my time is coming.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:22:43 2010 No.1071003 File: 47 KB, 263x299, CB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lambda calculus. Oh wait, that was easy. Bask in my genius you peasants.

Anonymous Mon May 31 16:23:43 2010 No.1071015
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>>1070925
try advanced electronics bro
it's not that hard but jesus fucking christ you need to take hundreds of variables into consideration while creating a circuit

pic related
this took me a whole fucking day

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:23:43 2010 No.1071030 File: 137 KB, 463x462, 1269966645625.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1070982 > Professor can't explain concepts from first year physics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:24:43 2010 No.1071049 Femtochemistry.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:25:43 2010 No.1071063 discrete

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:27:43 2010 No.1071089 >>1070869 All Computer Science classes -> TO FUCKING EASY + NOOB LECTURER = TOTAL BOREDOM!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost all Pure Mathematics classes -> TO SLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:29:43 2010 No.1071108 in case you didnt notice op never said anything about the subject being difficult therefore >>1071003 you are a fag

Anonymous Mon May 31 16:30:43 2010 No.1071124
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Uni 1st year chemistry.

>everything is in equilibrium with everything and we're all interlinked shitting dicks man this shit is so not cool.

Pic related was my face all the way through this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:31:43 2010 No.1071145 File: 8 KB, 245x245, 1266819016221.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1071124 > Confused about first year chemistry

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:39:43 2010 No.1071248 File: 41 KB, 300x338, 1275234930334.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1071015

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:40:43 2010 No.1071250 >>1071145 Not trying to hide the fact I suck at high level chemistry, and frankly If I could I'd do physics but my maths sucks as well and I hate electricity.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:41:43 2010 No.1071272 Any philosophy course.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:41:43 2010 No.1071278 >>1070991 I wanted to cry when I took my first statistics course. I actually did cry. Several times. In my apartment, at night.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:42:43 2010 No.1071291 >>1071284 noise* sorry

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:42:43 2010 No.1071286 File: 124 KB, 337x367, 1274072072856.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1071272 >implying philosophy isn't child's play

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:42:43 2010 No.1071284 >>1071248 oh also forgot to mention what it does it takes the electromagnetic noice from air, power supplies etc and turns it into first square waves (the two op amps), then triangular waves (right part with the diodes) and finally a sinusoidal wave

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:44:43 2010 No.1071307 >>1071284 Holy shit. Did you make the circuit for a therimin?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:45:43 2010 No.1071314 >>1071089 >All Computer Science classes -> TO FUCKING EASY + NOOB LECTURER = TOTAL BOREDOM!!!!!!!!!!!! Huh?! Same exact thing here.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:46:43 2010 No.1071317 File: 17 KB, 308x352, omgwtf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1071278 STATISTICS FUUUUU

Anonymous Mon May 31 16:46:43 2010 No.1071318
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>>1071278
I've seen several people (2 girls, 1 guy) have mental breakdowns during the MCAT as they realized they just completely flunked it and their little dreams of playing doctor have been shattered.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:47:43 2010 No.1071330 >>1071278 uhh.. I believe he said Statics, not Statistics... Statics is a branch of physics concerned with stuff like torque and equlibirum (I think... I'm a Physics major, we don't take it, its for engineers)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:48:43 2010 No.1071340 >>1071307 nope, simply a lab assignment thinking of making my own synthesizer this summer

Anonymous Mon May 31 16:49:43 2010 No.1071361

We had a class called (translated from another language) Nature Science. We were using teaching-books made by jews and they blamed EVERY GOD DAMN PROBLEM ON THE FUCKING GLOBAL WARMING.

OH LOOK AT THAT, THE AMOUNT OF WHEELCHAIRS HAS INCREASED OVER THE LAST MONTH!!! GLOBAL WARMING AMAGAAAD!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:51:43 2010 No.1071367 >>1071361 this became a fucking fad over the past couple of years and as a skeptic im starting to become frustrated

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:52:43 2010 No.1071378 >>1071318 I'd die to see that.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:53:43 2010 No.1071384 >>1071340 Better than that, hook up with some photonics students if there are any, make a light based guitar pick up. Send me it. I'm willing to pay for it with questionable sexual favours.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:54:43 2010 No.1071406 >>1071049 >Femtochemistry This be magic

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:55:43 2010 No.1071416 File: 362 KB, 476x359, 1274880670869.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Quantum Mechanics. Nobody knows shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:57:43 2010 No.1071443 >>1071384 im not that pro bro some day though some day

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:59:43 2010 No.1071470 fuck linear algebra

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 16:59:43 2010 No.1071473 >>1071416 Time dependent perturbation theory. so...many..integrals...

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:01:43 2010 No.1071490 Quantumchemistry But now it is quite fun and very interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:08:43 2010 No.1071576 >>1071443 Damn. But I have loose morals!!! and a tight ass!!!

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:10:43 2010 No.1071604

My first civil engineering class did it for me

It seemed like you needed to know the answer before starting to have a shot at any of the questions. That was 3 years ago, and looking back on it, it was just that the textbook was ultimately shitty (8 billion questions with no solutions manual) and the examples in class kind of sucked. At least the class average was like 35% so I passed.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:12:43 2010 No.1071621 AIDS and Society. I thought it would be an easy A. Fuck was I wrong...

Rebirth !NuJBxbKoek Mon May 31 17:12:43 2010 No.1071627

Electricity and Magnetism.

That class had me in tears -- Literally. I cried almost every other weekend. The tests were hard as fuck, calculators weren't allowed and we essentially had to use concepts/physical principles to solve the problems. The problems on the test were barely familiar to the homework and he would introduce geometric figures that the class just didn't have experience with. I remember on the final he wanted us to find the current and resistance on a tetrahedron. Those were particularly difficult because we had to deal with 3-Dimensional structures. Well, think about it that way at least.

Tests were worth between 150 and 250; he also didn't believe in partial credit or curving the grade. I remember for one test I received a 80 out of a possible 250. Another classmate of mine received a 5 out of 250. Two others received 25 out of 250. That class was so difficult. I barely passed with a C and was happy I received A's and B+'s in my other classes to balance out that class(4 credits).

Just thinking about it gives me the shivers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:16:43 2010 No.1071668 File: 32 KB, 350x371, 621349MacDre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] reading writing and arithmetic

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:21:43 2010 No.1071720 >>1071627 Jesus christ. I think I would have snapped and gone off the deep end if I had a class like that. What major was this for?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:22:43 2010 No.1071730 Fuckin algebra. I mean it's like what is fuckin x even supposed to be and then they put in a y and I'm just like man.. bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:24:43 2010 No.1071751 >>1070869 mind elaborating on this? i'm taking it next semester with p-chem.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:25:43 2010 No.1071759 Wow, I didn't know that /sci/ was a bunch of whiny humanists.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:26:43 2010 No.1071766 >>1071720 That is probably just intro to physics part 2. Engineers and Physicists have to take that course.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:26:43 2010 No.1071769 >>1071759 CS major spotted

Rebirth !NuJBxbKoek Mon May 31 17:28:43 2010 No.1071802

>>1071720

I'm a Mathematics major, but check this out:

I learned later on, after I took the class, I could've taken Algebraic-based Physics because the Physics I took was specifically for Engineers/Computer Scientists. It was a prerequisite for them; it wasn't a pre-req for me. The credits were still applicable to my major, but everyone I know looks at me with this, "ROFL FUCKING DUMB" look. Remember, kids; always get advised by a knowledgeable professor. If you advise yourself, like I did, you run the risk of making horrific mistakes like that.

To be honest, that Physics and the previous one(Classical Mechanics) dropped my GPA down dramatically. In the first class, Phys 1, I scored a B. In this one, I scored a C. I could've easily scored two A's in the algebraic-based Physics courses. What stung even more is that my professor for E&M looked at me inquisitively as to why the fuck I took the course if I had no reason to be an engineer/physicist/computer scientist.

Pretty much one of the most depressing aspects of my entire College career. I plan to take algebraic physics 1 and 2 just for the fuck of it so I can get the extra A's on my record.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:29:43 2010 No.1071805

second year organic chemistry. I dont fucking kid myself. I kind of like science but I fucking blow huge cocks when it comes to memorizing this stuff or sitting down to study. Mother fucking shapes and electrons being transferred EVERYWHERE. How the fuck can people memorize so many reactions and the precise place where electrons go and how an atom flips the boat chair faggotness. Forget it. I give up. I will NEVER contribute ANYTHING to science. I am a fucking waste in this world.

>>	Rebirth !NuJBxbKoek Mon May 31 17:32:43 2010 No.1071841 File: 18 KB, 300x309, Rage2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1071766 >Engineers and Physicists have to take that course. Exactamundo. >my face when I realized this after the semester.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:39:43 2010 No.1071920

>>1071802

lulz I did EE and took physics for engineering/cs majors my freshman year of college. weeder course with 300 people in it etc, holy fuck. me and a couple friends would later refer to it as FUCK YOUR SHIT I, II, and III, and wrote short stories comparing it to the die hard trilogy etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:43:43 2010 No.1071952 >>1071802 Made the same mistake. Was mad.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:43:43 2010 No.1071956 Calculus II Quantitative Analytical Chemistry Molecular Genetics at the same time

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:44:43 2010 No.1071968 >>1071956 guarantee you got Cs in any give class at the most. I took calc 2 TWICE.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:45:43 2010 No.1071973 >>1071968 F in cal 2 dropped quan anal C in mole gene I did some serious thinkin' after that semester. But it all turned out well in the end

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:47:43 2010 No.1071993

I'm a physics major and last semester I took a semiconductors class from the EE department. The first third of the class was just semiconductor physics/solid-state type stuff, which was easy and I enjoyed it.

But the last two thirds were dick-shittingly confusing for me. PN junctions were a good time, but BJTs and MOSFETs were pretty much derp for everyone. The homework problems were hard as fuck, and the professor decided to use different notation from the book. The tests weren't too bad, since they were fifty-fifty split between homework type problems and the challenging, I've never seen this shit before problems so you could almost always scrape out a few points. But goddamn, some of those problems I still wouldn't even know where to start if I saw them again. Each lecture, he would post the slides online and leave parts of it blank. Then you were supposed to print them off, come in to class, and fill them in. Well fuck my ass, I'm not doing that. Most of the lectures were practically empty.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:50:43 2010 No.1072017 Physical Chemistry

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 17:52:43 2010 No.1072030 >>1071956 Quantitative Analysis sucked. I got an A because the average on every exam was in the low 40's.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:52:43 2010 No.1072026

soil chemistry. At first it might not sound very daunting, but sweet fucking shit balls jesus was it the most convoluted thing ever. The professor thought he would be helpful by handing out printed notes, but they were cursory and terse, hardly elaborating on any points.

The worst is when you are reading an upper division text and the author introduces a term and even bolds it, but doesn't bother fucking explaining what it is, as if you are meant to decypher what it is from the way it is used in the sentence. Fucking rage.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:53:43 2010 No.1072035

>>1071968

the concepts of calc II aren't that difficult, but many schools make it a weeder course so casualfags find out in freshman year that they are in the wrong place instead of junior year after they have all the prerequisites done and then realize they can't science.

Anonymous Elect&Comp Engineer Mon May 31 17:56:43 2010 No.1072054

Senior Level Physic: "Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics." Holy Fuck! I don't know why the hell I took it, and walk out of ever lecture not know what the fuck was going on.

A close second would be "Honors Organic Chemistry I", which, up to the last week, was laughable easy (eat it stupid premeds.) The last week was a complete holy shit moment though, I needed to memorize 100's of different reactions, SO1, SO2, E1, E2, proper solvent to use for each reaction, and which is the best when making what. Organic Chemistry is not a science, it's a damn fucking humanity course in disguise. Every time I asked a question the answer was always: "I don't know why, just memorize it!"

I need to learn not to try to show up others when they say their major is harder and focus on mine own.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:57:43 2010 No.1072065

Calc III

Everything up until it made sense. I did okay in the class (B I think) but at least in Calc II I kind of understood the basis of what we were learning, but Calc III I couldn't visualize anything so I ended up passing by just memorizing the shit out of it.

Anonymous Mon May 31 17:58:43 2010 No.1072075

>>1071993
>>he would post the slides online and leave parts of it blank

fuck it, one of my profs does that as well. drives me nuts.

for me discrete mathematics notes <- whatthefuckamireading.jpg

but i am quite optimistic i am going to make it next sem

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:01:43 2010 No.1072087 >>1071993 Like what? AC equivalent networks, biasing, applications?

Anonymous Mon May 31 18:01:43 2010 No.1072088

>>Organic Chemistry is not a science, it's a damn fucking humanity course in disguise.

THIS. The rote memorization was ludicrous. It isn't like physics or math where you can remember a few formulas and work any problem from there; there wasnt any kind of toolkit or method to the madness. It was nothing but memorizing hundreds of disparate things.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:10:43 2010 No.1072168 File: 36 KB, 221x246, kermit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ethics and the environment. Fucking bullshit class. the prof apparently went to Harvard, derp. My face.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:13:43 2010 No.1072192 >>1072088 You're doing it wrong.

Anonymous Mon May 31 18:14:43 2010 No.1072195
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>>1072035
>take calc for bio majors = C- (need a C)
>take again = D+ !?!?
> switch to engineers calc.... A+

My face after the first test in engineers. Fucking weeding classes.

Anonymous Mon May 31 18:16:43 2010 No.1072208

Neuroscience major / cell & molecular biology minor

Hardest class I ever took was probably general chem II because I took it without knowing algebra (we had piss poor advisors, but it can't be said I don't have al some of the blame too for being so ignorant). It's kind of hilarious now because I have a 4.0 in math up to multivariable calculus and all my o-chem and biochem classes were A's. But oh well.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:19:43 2010 No.1072232 Philosophy class. What the fuck is this shit?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:21:43 2010 No.1072250 I'm waiting for that class that'll kick my ass. I hope physics is that class, but I have a talent and interest in physics so: FUUUUUUUU-

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:24:43 2010 No.1072282 Nothing hurts more than being super enthused about a subject and a class and then realizing you are no fucking good at it. Feels bad, man.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:27:43 2010 No.1072299 >>1072282 BUT I LOVE THE PAIN. IT MAKES YOU INTO A MAN.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:27:43 2010 No.1072303 >>1072282 agreed. I'm a wildlife bio major, took ecology/evolution class and was bored to tears. felt sleepy man.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 31 18:38:43 2010 No.1072386 >>1072282 I am great at electronics, but my real love is chemistry. I love materials, how things come together. but I'm just no good at it. the pain D:

Rebirth !NuJBxbKoek Mon May 31 18:43:43 2010 No.1072419

>>1072282

I felt like that with Physics. I learned that I enjoyed the idea and mysticism of Physics(i.e., Fenyman, Einstein, etc), but not the particular rigor behind it. With Mathematics, I enjoy both the rigor and mysticism. I've always loved Mathematics and I chose that as my primary goal, so it's win-win for me.

For me, Chemistry wasn't so bad. I just disliked the laboratory assignments; otherwise, I consistently scored into the top 80s / 90s on tests. Then again, my Mathematics background helped me out a lot. The concepts weren't too difficult to comprehend because I understood the mathematical laws associated with them, so even if I was confused with one aspect of the concept, I could always 'read' the mathematical equation and find it there.

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