What Was Your Worst And Most Difficult Classroom Subject?

[arwalden]

Which one did you struggle with the most?

For me, it was algebra. I hated it! But still... somehow I managed to temporarily memorize formulas and rules... just long enough to pass the final exams (and then promptly forget them).

[progmom]

1. science

i sucked sucked sucked at science. all of 'em.

[Trigger Hippie]

2. Geometry

I got a D. I think that's why I suck at pool.

[Lindacooks]

3. Calculus.

Yuck. I loved algebra and geometry, but I just couldn't get my head around calculus. Got Cs in it in college.

[AngryAmish]

27. agreed

4 hour D in college

[mark11727]

32. Walked out of my Calculus midterms in college once (early 70's)...

Whoa, that was nasty.

[NuckinFutz]

4. chemistry....hands down....n/t

[LSparkle]

5. Physics

Took it during senior year of high school and was confused the entire time. (And I didn't do poorly in chemisty, biology or math courses, either -- go figure!) Maybe that was because it was my first period class and I hadn't awakened yet.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Advanced math (Calculus and the like)

I hated it. I just wasn't interested in putting in the work that the course required. My teacher was awful too. She was out for surgery for like two months and my grades jumped like 20% while we had a substitute.

[name not needed]

35. Ha. Reminds me of Med Lab.

The teacher was out for 4 months cause she was pregnant. We got this fucking steroid-rage bodybuilder from West Virginia. My grade went from a B to an A, which is a lot, considering i did less work, and most of the class failed.

[johnnie]

Gym

I hated going. It was too hard to get away with sleeping in class in the middle of a friggin' gymnasium.

[WCGreen]

30. YEa I hated Gym as well....

I hated it so much i would think of anything to get out of it....

I actually talked my mom, and remember that this is 1973, into writing a note for me that said Chris Thinks Wrestling is Homosexual in nature and wishes to be excused from this portion of the curiculum...

I loved to play team sports, but climbing up and down ropes, wrestling, dodge ball, it was all sadistic to the uncoordinated kids and the favored those kids who grew into their bodies at seven.....

[mark11727]

56. Hated Gym class.

Jock high school.

Little nerdy guy new to the school district.

Do the math.

[Fenris]

7. All sorts of maths.

Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II...I had to take both Algebra courses twice.

[flamingyouth]

8. Math in all its beastly forms.

[Shell Beau]

9. I was a literature and grammar buff, but I sucked at Physics!

[Liberalynn]

10. All Math

but Gym was hard for me too. I'm a clutz.

[BOSSHOG]

11. Botany and Chemistry

kicked my ass.

[supernova]

12. Algebra

I couldn't stand it. Couldn't make heads nor tails out of it if you put a gun to my head.

I was so glad when I finished Algebra II in 11th grade. I didn't have to think about it anymore. It mostly made my head hurt.

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. Loved social studies classes

Hated algebra. I do logic well if confronted with words, but once numbers and formulas show up, I am lost.

[MindPilot]

14. Almost anything mathematical, I have a real hard time with numbers

especially doing calculations in my head.

Funny thing though, geometry was dead easy. After almost flunking algebra, I pulled straight A's in geometry without having to do a lick of work. Electronics came very easy to me too; top of my class in Navy "A" School. So did navigation when I was learning to fly, but put me in a math class and I will not make it.

I can calculate inductive reactance on a slide rule, but ask me to make change or figure someone's age given their birth date; I'm stuck.

That said, I really really hated PE. I'd shoot myself in the foot to get out of gym.

[Cathyclysmic]

15. Geometry

I try not to blame others for my problems, but, I really feel I would have done better without a first year teacher who 'retired' after she was done with the semester :eyes:

[skypilot]

16. Chemistry.

The only subject I ever flunked. And the way the teacher taught it made it feel like another algebra course--which I passed by the skin of my teeth. I'd come into the classroom and the board would be full of all these equations. I was lost before I even took a seat.

[kick-ass-bob]

17. Englosh.

I thought I was OK in it, but my techers did not.

:shurg:


:P

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Math. every single class.

Still can't do it. Thank God for online banking or we would be homeless.

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Algebra.

Geometry was a little easier, but Algebra....shit, I'd rather stick my pecker in a garbage disposal than have to do algebra.

[deadparrot]

20. Chemistry.

And Algebra I...but that was because I had a horrible 8th grade math teacher who didn't prepare us at all for HS math. I was fine once I caught up.

[no name no slogan]

21. Took 1/2 semester of Latin in college

I had to drop it because I was studying it four hours every night and only getting Ds. I still don't know why I did so poorly in it, considering I had three years of Spanish, one year of German and 1/2 year of French in junior and senior high-- and I love languages and linguistics.

Of course, maybe it was because I was a freshman... :silly:

[MindPilot]

31. Oh thanks!! Thanks for reminding about 4 freakin' years of LATIN!

Yep while the public school kids were learning useful things like Spanish or Japanese, I was taking Latin. Don't remember a single thing about it except I curl up in a fetal position and sob uncontrollably whenever I hear the command "CONJUGATE!"

[no name no slogan]

33. oh, you mean like this

CONJUGATE!!!


(FULL DISCLOSURE: i'm pretty sure that's what killed me, too. well, at least their empire collapsed-- probably because everybody was too damn busy conjugating their future-pluperfect tenses :silly:

[MindPilot]

39. HAHAHAHA!!

My Latin teacher was like obsessed with Roman culture, and he looked like he could be standing in a chariot. Always wore the same grey suit everyday, but he had brightly colored socks, a different color for each day of the week. He would karate-chop the blackboard for emphasis.

[no name no slogan]

42. Yeah, my Latin profs were the same

the Classics department at my small, liberal arts college was run by two married couples-- one was Hellenic-obsessed, the other Latin-obsessed. I kept expecting my prof to walk in wearing a toga and crown of olive branches every day.

Those people are a breed apart, IMHO. :D

[usedtobesick]

22. Chem

[sniffa]

23. physics II

it was more the professor.... or maybe it was me.

[jus_the_facts]

24. I am a math'tard.....

[TK421]

25. Math and gym.....may the inventors of both rot in hell

I had the misfortune of being 75 pounds overweight in high school, so naturally I couldn't keep up with the circuit training BS that the other kids excelled at (and most of them played sports). As far as math goes, I didn't have a problem with it until Algebra. Does anyone remember integers? To this day, I have never understood OR used these fucking things:mad:

[Zomby Woof]

26. Chemistry

Mainly because the teacher was an evil repuke fundie from hell.

[nickinSTL]

28. arithmetic

oddly, I did fine in math once I hit algebra...went through second semester of calculus in college.

But simple arithmetic I had trouble with.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

29. Ouchebra

Had to take "Business Math" to get my math credit because I just couldn't get the hang of Ouchebra. I didn't master it until I went back to school as an adult and FINALLY got an A in College Ouchebra with Review in 1995. WOOHOO!!!!!!!

[Kire]

34. I failed Physics in college.

and then I found out that I never needed to take it in the first place

DOH!

[Rambis]

36. Science and Math

that pretty much sums it up for me. I can't spell and I don't use the english language very well either. I am a dumbass but I have lots of opinions:) I did get a free solar calculator once when I bought some really cheap cigs but I didn't know how to use it.

[skypilot]

43. "I llike you. You're the real deal."

:)

[greekspeak]

37. In High School, Physics and Geometry

They were both pains in the butt for me. In college, it was College Algebra.

[sakabatou]

38. Geometry

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. I had a BUNCH of things that I was no good at.....

Geometry in hs...

gym always (flunked college swimming; had to take it over to pass and graduate!)

Latin in college..go figure...I loved it in hs..and was a language major in college..

Almost any science class until I was MUCH older and studying nursing...then I loved them...

I think a lot of our poor performances come from who we are when we take these classes...and the teachers, if they inspire us, or if they turn us off...

After a while, we find our niches, and hopefully then we can thrive...


:kick:

[skypilot]

44. OK, I have to ask.

I never had to take swimming but how exactly do you flunk it? Aside from drowning?:) :shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. No problem...I have no problem answering how I managed to flunk!

And no, it was not by drowning...LOL...

To pass the class, you had to swim the length of the pool twice after having jumped in off the side first...

I succeeded in doing everything except make the turn without putting my feet down on the pool floor...

And THAT was a big no-no! I nearly did it again the next time, but managed to get through it...I passed, and did get my bachelor's degree...

It was traumatic..but I lived!

[skypilot]

53. Those sadistic bastards!!!!

Did they actually have someone underwater watching your feet to make sure they didn't touch the bottom?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

57. It was just the school's policy...and it makes sense, sort of...

They wanted to make sure that everyone could swim...

And no, there was no-one watching from below...but the water was clear of course, and it was easily seen...

No worries, my dear! That was in 1965! or maybe it was 1964...anyway, thank you for your kind thoughts!

I don't swim much...big surprise there! And I haven't owned a bathing suit in a VERY long time...

[skypilot]

58. I remember when I learned to swim.

I took lessons when I was in the sixth grade. We didn't get tested but the school did have us take lessons. It was so strange. I was holding onto the edge of the pool and practicing my kicking and suddenly I just went buoyant. Before that I couldn't keep my legs from sinking. I was like a stone in the pool. Here's to buoyancy.:thumbsup: :headbang:

[khashka]

41. Worst or most difficult?

Worst? Chemistry. I hated it .

Most difficult? Math. It wasn't the class it was the admin. Apparently it was impossible to take three math classes at once.

In college it was physics. I once proved that gravity is not a law but only a notional idea. The prof kept me after class and we did the same experiment over and over. Same results. Gravity only works when you expect it to. And when you expect nothing, it fucks with you. Gravity has a sense of humour.

Khash.

[lukasahero]

45. History/geography

Give me math and science any day.

[NewJeffCT]

46. tax accounting

I hated it, and still avoid tax accounting whenever I can. I'm an accountant, but luckily have usually worked in companies big enough to have their own tax accounting people.

[alarcojon]

47. Saddened by all the math and science troubles

but I am not surprised.

This is not meant as a slam on anyone, but we as a society should be alarmed when so many talented, creative people hate these subjects so much. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the way they were (are?) taught, but there is more to it than this. I'm not sure what, though.

Full disclosure: math professor, excellent student evaluations, teaching awards.

I enjoyed pretty much all subjects in school. My least favorite was probably auto shop (I went to a tech high school), but even that was okay.

[Rising Phoenix]

48. Geometery

[Patiod]

49. Calculus - thank God for the Penn State Football team

I flunked it TWICE (GPA? What GPA? I used to always say "well, I have a 3.2 in my major").

They took Calc at night, and my advisor suggested that I might be able to pass (and thus graduate) if I took it with the Team.

All tests were T/F. All tests were graded on a curve, and a 50% got you a solid "D".

I was the proud owner of a "D" and a diploma by the end of the semester.

[Merrick]

50. Organic Chemistry

the second semester was definitely the hardest class I had to take in college.

[graywarrior]

52. Catechism

Who is God? God is the creator of the universe.
Why did God make me? God made me because he loves me.

Those two questions and answers fucked me up to the point of ruining my life for 50 years.

I hated catechism. I don't even know what "catechism" means.

[peace frog]

54. Sadistics... er I mean, Statistics

The Business Administration program I was enrolled in required four, count 'em, four statistics courses to gradate, each more difficult than the last (and my grades reflected it). The fourth and final course was so damned difficult I prayed to whatever gods might be listening to please, please, please help me pass it. I did, but just barely.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. Abstract Algebra (Group Theory)

After 11 years of acing every form of Math imaginable, I went to college. Math/Physics subjects were NOT supposed to be hard. Boy was I wrong.

But I eventually came to like the subject, after the shock of receiving a 35% grade in an exam -- half the lowest grade I'd EVER received in my whole LIFE!