Really Boring Classes

[Greenday]

Come on, everyone's had a couple. If you went to any school, college, high school, middle school, you've had one. I've had my fair share of them. And I'm only a freshman in college.

I'm sitting here, in Effective Writing, going nuts. The past two classes, we came into the computer lab to do writing workshops. Stuff like: turning seven sentences into one sentence (isn't that called a run-on?). How does that in anyway make a paper better. Today, we are back in the computer lab. For the first 45 minutes, we are supposed to be looking up material for our latest set of essays, people who have contributed a lot to our communities (mine happens to be Science). Not sure who I'm going to choose, but I think one of them is going to be my friend from all my classes. Without her, my grades would not be as high as they are. Sure, when we studied, I didn't pay too much attention, but I always remembered certain random things that saved me some points on quizzes and tests. I'm going to go for a wierd set of people. No one obvious like Einstein. Maybe someone like Notradames, or Tesla. It's a writing teacher, how much will she really know about major science contributors that aren't so well known?

Well, it's almost time to switch to our writing workshop for the day. Only 30 minutes till class is over. Yay! CS is so great, helping me through my classes so I don't go insane.

[Ryu]

art history
ugh... if thats not enough to turn you away from art if you didnt have an interest before i dont know what is

other parts of classes have been horribly boring but usually not thr whole class

[KuzcoLlama]

I'd agree with that, Ryu. I happen to love art, and still love it even after three art history classes. That's probably the trick.

As for classes that bored me to tears.....all the math ones (save my last statistics class...that guy was a hoot!) and something that was called "ancient classical comedy literature." I managed to pass the class, despite the fact I fell asleep every time.

[Greenday]

Ah, yes, Art History. What a waste of a class. Thank God I got mono and missed the last two months of that semester. I was sleeping in Calc this year as I knew what she was teaching already. Took calc in high school. Then I started failing stuff because there was stuff on the quizzes I didn't know. Started paying attention. She taught stuff I knew. She put stuff on the quizzes that required tons of work, and with no calculator, were damn near impossible. And she'd take off major credit for not liking your work even if you get the right answer.

[Worker-Intellectual]

Thermal Science I

Imagine a class where most of what you do is look at tables in the back of the textbook. All you have are very simple equations and interpolating from tables. Everything is open book, and you wrote the simple formulae in the back of your book. Add a prof who speaks in a monotone voice all the time. Then take a few sleeping pills and you will get an idea of what it is like.

Statics I

sigma F = 0
sigma M = 0

Here's your A

[zeoquean]

Prehistoric Cultures. OMG that class was horrible. The guy was deaf in one ear, and spoke in monotone. He put almost everyone to sleep the first day. One girl in the front row was sleeping and snoring and he didn't even notice. I never learned anything in that class (and it was one of the lib ed things...it was that or one other class that sounded boring to me...this one seemed less horrible...I was wrong, of course).

[sportsmom]

Music Appreciation. That was a horrible class with an awful professor. As part of the class we watched "Amadeus." That was the best part of the class.

Human Sexuality was pretty hit or miss. Some times it was really interesting, mainly when we had guest speakers, and others it was horribly boring.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Ugh. The worst was my 8 am Intro Economics. Thank God the chairs were uncomfortable, and there was a Tim's on the way to school.

The worst class I'd ever had was Boilogy 207-Genetics. It was taught by a new prof-it was the first class he'd ever taught, and he wasn't really sure how to present the info, and which info to present. Compunding that was the fact that his tests were impossible (48% average on the midterm-and that was after he raised everyones marks!) and my lab partner didn't know his English very well and was not very good at biology. That was a misery...

[protege]

Let's see now...

I think the business computer class (basically Lotus 1-2-3) was the most boring college class ever. I had most of the material in high school. The first few classes were about how to get into Lotus, what spreadsheets were, etc. Total yawnfest, in other words. But, rather than fall asleep, I'd play Quake, Doom, or surf the web. After awhile though, the professor said I could skip class, and just show up for tests. I didn't do that, since some of us liked to play Quake :p

Another boring class was the study skills one most freshmen got stuck taking. Right up there is the "college experience" class. They both sucked.

[AFpheonix]

Most of my crappy classes I got out of the way in freshman year. We had to take an intensive writing thing right off the bat, so I took one called Arts:Windows to the World, Mirror to the Soul.

We spent most class time talking about how we don't talk much in class. Seriously. Egads, that sucked.
Geography was boring as hell, too, but we had to have a certain amount of sociology credits, too....Yay for a liberal arts education....

[Ryu]

ah yes.. economics... i hate that class as well

[Caveat Emptor]

I had Intro to Music during freshman year. I like classical music, but trying to dissect it, to recognize specifically how Beethoven radically changed it...I just couldn't understand what that meant. My worst prof would be a toss up between my Edu Tech, who had a habit of insulting people if they didn't understand or fell behind, and the Amer Colonial History, who was, pardon me for saying, a fossil who could very well have lived what he was teaching (j/k) and had a collection of ceramic cups made by his grandkids and former students. One held about a thimbleful of coffee, and he would start class when he had that one by going back to the lounge since he ran out!!! :rolleyes:

[stormtreader]

Software standards.

All the stereotypical 'insanely boring stuff' like ISO standards and testing, delivered by a man in the tradional "mostly quiet mumbling, with occasionally suddenly loud punchlines to boring jokes you didnt hear anyway" method.

The lectures were all reading through the huge wodge of notes you were given, and anything slightly useful or exam-worthy was mumbled at sub-mumble volume.

Maybe it was to help us look forward to escaping into a job in the future?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I took AP US History in senior year. It was my second class of the day and inevitably turned into naptime for me.

I think that was because the teacher handed out a sheet with all the notes on it every class, and then for lecture basically repeated everything on the sheet verbatim.

I also think it was because I am a history buff to begin with. I slept through just about every period and still got A's every quarter.

[kerrisan]

Music Appreciation was such a waste of time. I took Choir for 3 years, and the first day our prof walked up to the board, drew a big fat dot on it, and said "This is a note." O_o

And last year I took a Phonemic Awareness class. Ugh. I don't ever remember half of the class, but for those who don't know, phonemic awareness is the awareness that letters have sounds associated with them. It's a required class for Elementary Education majors.

[thegiraffe]

Ohhh...I have SO many. This is what I can think of off the top of my head.

:::HIGH SCHOOL:::

- AP statistics.
The dude was boring. Brilliant, but boring. He KNEW the material, just did a craptastic job of presenting it. We all slept, did homework, had parties....lol. It was a small class - like 15 people. It was a total joke to everyone.

- AP American Government.
Imagine Gepetto from Pinocchio with crossed eyes. That was my AP Govt teacher. He had a stutter, and would READ the f-ing book to us. :runaway: I got sick of it, and explained to him one day (in front of the class, of course :angel:) that we weren't learning ANYTHING, and it'd do everyone more good if he quit reading to us and told us something helpful that wasn't in the book. This dude shouldn't have been allowed within 50 miles of AP.

:::College:::

-American Political Traditions.
I actually had to take this class twice (only time ever doing that) because it was SOO horrible. Gah! This dude would ramble ramble ramble, and then all of a sudden, TIRADE! Holy crap - it was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was also a pompous ass who had SEVERAL active complaints against him both times I had him. I'm so glad I had my laptop for the 2nd time around. It made me go to class haha.

-Perception. [Psychology major class]
AGH! Holy freaking crap. This dude has the personality of a doorknob. Not even like a lever doorknob - he's barely as interesting as a round plain one. He also tends to ramble, and speaks in a frequency that I can't even hear (and I can hear things most people can't - high and low pitches). He takes a strong biological approach, and USF isn't a highly biological school. He did his post-doc at HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL in the Psychiatry department. Gah. I feel for those poor poor med students up there if they're all like him. He's.....odd and dull.


I really have had many many fun and interesting classes, these are just the ones that I DON'T like that I can think of. Considering I graduated with 26 credits (about 30 teachers all said and done) in high school, and I'll have 125 or so from college (roughly 45 classes)...that's quite a small ratio haha.

[BrassCowboy]

Bio Lab - as if Bio wasn't bad enough, I also had to take the lab with another teacher. She would literally yell at you for asking questions. I dropped that class like a bad habit.

[Ringtail Z28]

Any lectures in any automotive classes. Even the instructors say they hate doing them, but they're required to have a certain amount of time giving lectures and book work by the state. I guess it's the nature of auto techs to hate lectures and book work.

[Melxb]

I'm gonna join the I-hate-Economics chorus. I took Macro Economics my Freshman year in college. I was an undecided major at the time and I really didn't know what to study. I was tossing around Economics as a major because I was getting a lot of pressure from my dad to major in that (he majored in Economics and Latin American Studies [double degree/major] at Clairemont McKenna College, a major Econ studies school in the late 60's and 70's). He really wanted me to follow in his footsteps.

I HATED Econ. It wasn't so much that it was boring, but I literally couldn't stand the subject matter. I had to have a serious sit down with my dad and tell him that, no, his little girl wasn't going to study Economics, wasn't going to transfer to CMC, and wasn't going to get an MBA. Nope. Not for me.

[irateguy]

I was a Business major the one year I went to Uc. They made us take a humanities class So I took Intro to classical civilization . It was boring as hell to me + the teacher was a snootball. It was greek and roman civilizaton how in the hell is that gonna help me in business WHO FRIGGIN CARES.
I had a physics teacher in hs who was a total mess he wouldnt teach us at all hed just say read the chapter do the questions and hed spend the whole period talking about Hawaii and sucking down Vicks Nyquil like it was water.
I didnt have a clue in that class but he ended up giving me an 85 anyway after the 1st quarter I didnt even try in that class:)

[Mr. Rager!]

I pay a lot of money to sleep in an uncomfortable chair.

I get bored in a lot of my classes. The plus side is, I typically do very well in school so it's not a big deal.

[ArenaBoy]

I hated economics also and add that up with a teacher who refused to answer your questions and you get a nightmare.

[AFpheonix]

Ooh! I forgot Intro to Mass Communication! That class was a waste of time...but once again....liberal arts credits....

We had to do a group project, and I (like usual) got a total slacker. So, I decided to have fun with it (we picked media and how it relates to body image), and used John Waters' flick Hair Spray. The other students just sat there and blinked at me....Some of these people never watch good movies :lol:

[Zombi]

I had two this very semester:

-European Mythologies:
What do we all think of when we hear the word "mythology"? Ancient Greece? Beowulf? Valhalla? Well, think again. This class was all about how the major ideologies of 19th century England are reflected in the works of its pre-eminent writers. I could understand us covering Dickens, Scott and Gaskell, but Von Ranke and Zola? :wtf: I knew the class wasn't going to be that intersting, because I had a friend who dropped out of it last year, but it was still funny hearing half the class complaining about how they wanted to do Greek and Roman myths. Fortunately, the lecturer (who is also the tutor) is retiring at the end of this year, and he's made it very clear to us that he wants a nice, quiet semester - ergo, no fail grades. :D

-Disease in History:
This would have been a really good unit had the lecturer had the slightest clue what she was talking about. I sat up the back with my friend muttering "Umm...no, that's not right..." for most of the semester. My friend just got me to correct the handouts for her, rather than listen to this silly cow. The tutorials weren't much better - we were supposed to "discuss the readings", and we all know how quickly that descends into "So, how was your weekend?". We ended up talking about cheese in the week we were studying syphilis, and that's just not right. O_o"