Not difficulty wise, I'm talking worthless/miserable.

1/8/2011 6:57:58 PM

8am Discrete Math with Rodman

My mind doesn't work at 8am, nevermind trying to be taught Logic by the most boring professor I've had.

1/8/2011 7:00:40 PM

for worthless, most of the humanities i took

for miserable, most of the engineering classes (specifically 200 level) i took

1/8/2011 7:00:52 PM

Probably Calc 2 because of the chinese woman teaching it.

1/8/2011 7:01:10 PM

history of west africa for worthless

statics or solids for miserable


65K!

1/8/2011 7:02:30 PM

ECE 220... All the times I took it

1/8/2011 7:03:12 PM

FORTRAN

1/8/2011 7:04:03 PM

FORTRAN? when did you get to State, 1993?

1/8/2011 7:05:13 PM

because TreeTwista10 did, yall might have had the same classes

1/8/2011 7:06:14 PM

I took FORTRAN in 10th or 11th grade at high school

When I got to State in 1998, I didn't even think they taught it anymore, thought at the time it was all Java and C++

1/8/2011 7:06:44 PM

I had to take it in spring 2003.


[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 7:13 PM. Reason : vv yep, it was required]

1/8/2011 7:08:16 PM

worthless: E115
miserable: ACC 330 (or whatever tax accounting was)

1/8/2011 7:08:44 PM

they make the mechanials or civils take fortran for some reason

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM. Reason : WHO ALL TOOK ECE 220 MORE THAN ONCE SAY YEAH]

1/8/2011 7:09:59 PM

i dont remember the number, but it was a PS class. Environmental law and politics with normal miller

horrrrible person. i dont think he stayed teaching here much longer. i could go on and on about how horrible he was, even the tree huggers hated him

1/8/2011 7:11:08 PM

PY 782 Quantum Mechanics II

I'm seriously pissed that I even paid for that course. It had to be the most basic, elementary, bullshit, waste of time ever. Any self respecting 3rd grader would have no problem with that course.

1/8/2011 7:11:46 PM

I took a "plants and civilization class." I showed up to the class for the final only to find out that the professor changed the date of the final. I emailed him, and he told me that they played Jeopardy for the final on the last day of class. So, instead of him making me make it up or take an F straight to the face, he gave me a 100. I'm not really sure why I'm posting that in this thread, that was the most awesome surprise I ever got in a class.

1/8/2011 7:13:16 PM

^that class was awesome...I got an A+ in it...just a bunch of potheads and alcoholics basically

Quote :

"they make the mechanials or civils take fortran for some reason"

got it...I was EU and didn't have to, probably since I had taken a programming class in HS

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 7:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/8/2011 7:17:00 PM

Eng 101 w/ Herold. He was so goddamned boring

1/8/2011 7:18:32 PM

Eng101/Eng115

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM. Reason : ]

1/8/2011 8:14:37 PM

the 2 or 3 classes i took with Adriana de Souza e Silva (or whatever) were pretty pointless

she was kinda hot though

1/8/2011 8:16:43 PM

Let me list them for you

1) ECE 407 with nillson (Visit Study Hall for details)
2) Fortan with Rodman
3) ECE IDK (the first one with Laplace and Fourier) with Dr Devetsikiotis
4) MA 241 (or whatever Calc 2 is) with some old white lady. Expected you to disregard what you learned in class and know equations for like surface area of random shapes without telling you or even hinting at it) Literally one of the questions on an exam you had to know SA for like a sphere, which would've been great but it was asked in a way that unless you had a previous semesters solution from her section, you never would've thought of solving in that way.

I'm like 5% above average intelligence, by no means a genius, and i'm a terrible student... but these classes were all either boring as fuck or taught with unreasonable expectations for their class level. I know that one ECE class was a weedout class, but i think they were testing your ability to understand people who can't write legibly and are terrible at explaining shit. Nilson is a douche. Avoid at all costs. Reads from slides, refuses to go into more details for solutions than is on the slide, gives no partial credit no matter how much work is shown and apparently at the end of the semester knocks off a few percentages of your final grade just because he is an old angry person. Glad i dropped that shit.

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[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 8:34 PM. Reason : read the thread and i think it was ECE 220]

1/8/2011 8:33:54 PM

^^ I hated her classes. They were pointless and I would almost never get credit for the amount of work I did.

1/8/2011 8:35:52 PM

CSC 316 Stewart Data Structures was most miserable.
All the humanities were worthless aside from technical writing.

1/8/2011 8:45:39 PM

FORTRAN was still required with in graduated in '06.

For nuclear engineering, I don't think anyone else really required it.

1/8/2011 8:47:20 PM

Eng 101

Some philosophy class where my teacher seriously believed in infanticide

CSC 200

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 8:53 PM. Reason : .]

1/8/2011 8:52:36 PM

chm101 aka HS chemistry over again. i liked the lab though. first runner up csc116 aka HS computer science but this time with java

1/8/2011 8:53:28 PM

I hated ST311...it was so boring. And the professor's heavy accent didn't help - I want to say he was Korean, but I can't remember. I wasn't hard, just boring and seemed like a waste. It was a 9am class and spent most the class drinking my coffee, reading the Technician and working on the crossword and sudokus.

CSC 200 was lame as well. I had it right after ST311. The lecture part of CSC200 was not at all related to what we did in the lab part of the course. It was all very basic stuff in lab...Word, PowerPoint, Excel...only new thing was html, which I had no prior experience with. The lecture stuff was more about the history of computers and how stuff worked. Just seemed like a waste to me.

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 9:05 PM. Reason : to add csc]

1/8/2011 8:57:32 PM

FORTRAN

Also fyi FORTRAN was required for mechanical engineering and I started at NCSU in 2004.. They was talk about changing it to matlab or something at least partially useful last year when I graduated..

1/8/2011 8:59:30 PM

PE101

1/8/2011 9:02:43 PM

Hmmm tie between Solid Mechanics (With Dr. Hamid Davoodi) and Engineering Dynamics (Dr. Fen Wu).

Both classes had absolutely horrible professors with unreasonable expectations. As with most engineering classes, I ended up teaching myself the material.

And they definitely do still teach Fortran at NCSU for a few of the different types of engineers. And for those that think it is worthless, I use Fortran all the time at NASA.

1/8/2011 9:07:00 PM

Quote :

"I took a "plants and civilization class." I showed up to the class for the final only to find out that the professor changed the date of the final. I emailed him, and he told me that they played Jeopardy for the final on the last day of class. So, instead of him making me make it up or take an F straight to the face, he gave me a 100. I'm not really sure why I'm posting that in this thread, that was the most awesome surprise I ever got in a class."

i was actually talking about how awesome this class was today actually. worst case scenario there was a food giveaway at the end of class and best case a guy in a banana costume runs through the back of the classroom while being chased by a guy in a gorilla costume. (yes this really happened) IIRC class was dismissed because the professor was afraid he was having a bad reaction to some medicine he was taking.

1/8/2011 9:15:20 PM

International Law with Figgins (I think that was his name)

1/8/2011 9:16:58 PM

Emag course, because it was hard as shit and I didn't care to learn about emag.

1/8/2011 9:19:39 PM

worthless - some bullshit intro to landscape architecture class. it was a super easy A, but completely useless in terms of offering anything useful or interesting. It was a wasted opportunity to take an interesting elective.

miserable - vibrations (MAE315?) with dr. larry royster. damn, that man was an ass.

1/8/2011 9:19:53 PM

all of the classes i took were pretty interesting. the only class i really didn't like was biology, and i'm sure i could have found it interesting if the professor & ta i had weren't total kooks

1/8/2011 9:20:22 PM

I took a geography class early on in undergrad. I thought, hey, this could have some interesting cultural stuff. Instead, the associate professor who taught it had us go out and draw pictures of the earth on the sidwalks with chalk. She even said she has her 2nd graders do the same thing too in her other job.

It was also the only class to ever literally cause me to vomit (but that's another story).

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM. Reason : .]

1/8/2011 9:22:52 PM

ANS 105

1/8/2011 9:23:15 PM

^^my geography professor also had us do that! i really enjoyed it, but the class was for social studies teachers so it made sense

1/8/2011 9:24:46 PM

FORTRAN would definitely be on the short list of most miserable.

1/8/2011 9:29:46 PM

i took C++ in lieu of FORTRAN. For one class I had to learn FORTRAN on my own, oops.

1/8/2011 9:31:45 PM

That same associate professor also gave a speech at the start of her class about she catches about half of her class on plagiarism every semester and has to turn them in to the administration, and that it was really sad.

Later in the semester she tried to accuse me of plagiarism on a paper, for something like not citing a source when describing what sushi was on some international food paper. I tried to talk her out of it saying that common knowledge stuff didn't need citation, and that I hadn't quoted or even paraphrased anyone else’s definition, instead coming up with my own. It finally made sense why she was catching people every semester on plagiarism.

In the end she caved without trying to get me on an academic integrity violation, not because she realized her mistake, but because she felt I "plagiarized" on accident. I think she caught someone else in the class on plagiarism for not stating how they new a certain city was the capital of a country.

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 9:44 PM. Reason : .]

1/8/2011 9:39:21 PM

sounds like she's not quite sure what plagiarism means.

1/8/2011 9:48:52 PM

^^WOW that is ridiculous

1/8/2011 9:49:51 PM

Quote :

"I use Fortran all the time at NASA."

well it still makes no sense to teach Fortran for the 2-3 people(that I know about) that got hired by NASA out of NCSU over the last few years. I would prefer a class that benefits the thousands of other engineers not working for NASA, maybe MATLAB or some software used by companies.

1/8/2011 9:54:23 PM

^^^^ Does anything ever happen to these people?

Sounds to me like when she comes to the administration people would just smile and say "Thank you for bringing this egregious disregard of academic rules to our attention" before throwing her report in the garbage.

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 10:07 PM. Reason : ]

1/8/2011 10:06:49 PM

No idea. I got the hell away from that class and never took any other geography class, or any class with her ever again. That was in my first year or two at state, before I had much experience dealing with bureaucracy or bad professors.

Later I learned, if a professor sounds crazy on the first day or has unreasonable expectations, drop that class and sign up for a new one during the first week. And I have no problem standing up to a professor when I feel they are in the wrong.

I had a history professor who gave me a D on a paper. He put all his comments on the front page and said that I missed many important points. After getting a chance to read his comments, I read through my paper again (it was like 5 pages long) and found almost everything he was looking for on the later pages. So I went back to him and asked him to regrade it, at first he was reluctant, but then he did after I pushed him to.

Apparently he never read past the first page before giving it a grade(which he eventually admitted to). But I had no problem saying I'd talk to the history department administration if he wouldn't take another look at it. He was a really old guy, and I think he retired after that semester, so I think something may have been amiss with his mind, or he had just checked out so much at the end of his career that he didn't care to read the papers he assigned. Ended up with an A on the paper and the class I think.

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 10:24 PM. Reason : .]

1/8/2011 10:19:24 PM

My ENG101 with Lynne was pretty bad. I droppped it after 3 weeks, and took summer English class at wake tech to make up for it.

1/8/2011 10:40:19 PM

Fortran did suck but using maple is a close second.

1/8/2011 10:44:39 PM

Introduction to Fiction

1/8/2011 10:46:28 PM

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1/8/2011 10:47:12 PM