/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8699271]

ITT name the course/subject you had the most difficult time with

Also, what advice would you give yourself back when you were still in undergrad

Me
>toughest course = Calc I and III (pls no bully)
>advice to myself: probably would be to devote more time to conceptualize. Spent too much time memorizing specific approaches and formulas instead of understanding how and why, did robot mode for 4 years

Also easiest course was humanities related classes

[Anonymous No.8699292]

IMO toughest courses are usually intro courses. It's all new to you and it's generalized.

[Anonymous No.8699315]

>>8699292
Yeah I agree with this. I had a few tough courses in grad school but by that time I had a lot of faculties to deal with things.

[Anonymous No.8699325]

>>8699315
yeah I wasn't saying the early courses are actually tougher information. tougher stuff comes later, but you learn how to approach the subject from different angles thanks to the general courses.

for people who were brainlets in their early courses, they'll have a much harder time later on.

[Anonymous No.8699343]

Currently doing Signal processing.
first half of the course of Fourier analysis, second half is filters and wavelets.

[Anonymous No.8699358]

>>8699343

signal processing would be a breeze if you learned the math beforehand.

you don't do laplace?

[Anonymous No.8699366]

For me the toughest by far was 'Approximation Algorithms' (MSc level course). Basically, given some optimization problems, we were required to come up with approximation algorithms that are guaranteed to give a solution which is within some given factor from the optimal solution, and then prove that it works correctly. The algorithms themselves were easy as fuck, but the proofs tend to be absolutely brutal.

[Anonymous No.8699450]

>>8699366
>proofs tend to be absolutely brutal
this, but applied to all my courses that require proofs.
I'd feel like I get the material but would freeze up on test day