ixcuincle Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. QUaKLCfOJCc I managed to make it through 14 minutes of above before remembered why I hated math lectures so much. Talk about boring, uninteresting crap that isn't applied to the real world. All the professor did was talk about theory. There was zero application of this theory to the world today. Just a bunch of talk about vectors and theorems. I can't stand that. Also hate business and financial matters, although I never had a chance to take any of those courses in HS. When I took them in college I got dominated by simple accounting. Ledgers and debit and credit...there was little math involved but the sequence setting up those transactions...****, that's something I don't want to relive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I really disliked disecting literature. Which is strange, because I've always been a very avid reader. And nowadays I find myself interested in some of those things. Re-reading Paradise Lost is on my list of things to do. Calculus pretty much blew. I struggled with the abstract nature of the whole thing. Of course, didn't help that I never really worked at it and was an extremely lazy student. But with regard to education, it is absolutely amazing to me how incredibly boring curriculums can make the most fascinating of subjects. I took physics and chemistry and biology in High School- incredibly boring. These are, in fact, some of the most fascinating subjects in the history of mankind. Leave it to our educators to make them a complete snoozefest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 ANYTHING Math related...I'm talking algebra, statistics, calculus....I just cant do it, it never clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Yeah...I loathed advanced math classes too. I could breeze through English, foreign languages, biology, and history, but I'd fail any math class above geometry. In college I went to my calculus class for 3 days and then never went back. Does anyone on Earth use calculus aside from calculus teachers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Does anyone on Earth use calculus aside from calculus teachers? I think it can teach a discipline, a patience, and a thought process that is important in almost any field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin'Em84 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 English. I understood why I needed it, but god was dissecting the metaphorical meanings of books the most gut wrenching thing there ever was. Why couldn't Charles Dickens have a fountain in a book because he liked fountains? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 English. I understood why I needed it' date=' but god was dissecting the metaphorical meanings of books the most gut wrenching thing there ever was.Why couldn't Charles Dickens have a fountain in a book because he liked fountains?[/quote'] This used to drive me crazy. Here's a ****ing radical idea... why doesn't the author just say wtf he wants to say?!?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue collar Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Math. You either got it or you didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeysc23 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Add me to the list about English/Literature. I love reading books but I don't think everything has to have a subplot or other meaning. And if I didn't recognize it doesn't mean I didn't understand the book. Also I was horrific (as probably evidenced by my posts from time to time) at grammar. It wasn't my teachers though I just didn't put effort into my early grade school work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fight for ole DC Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Literature....especially all the English Literature "wherefore art thou" junk. Seemed so pointless to me....still does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 English for me too. I used to read books all the time. Now it's only biographies and historical books that really peak my interest. I hated reading books that I had already read, I hated trying to decipher my understanding of the book for everyone else. Hell, it's my opinion of how I interpreted the book. Book reports ? What was the purpose of that garbage ? But math was easy for me. I hated school because it was boring and usually too easy. But english was the most boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I took IB level English in high school and I hated every second of my life I had sit through it. Really dislike chemistry as well. All the bonding crap and the different types of bondings make no ****ing sense to me. Like someone else said, with math you either get it or you don't. I got perfect scores in all my calculus exams the last two semesters and I seriously didn't study for more than two hours for any of them lol. On the other hand, with Chemistry, I seriously spent three full days studying before my final and I got a 58 :doh:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I hated math, on all levels. I was just never really that good at it once I got past 9th grade. I could get A's in everything else, but the best I could ever manage in math was a C, and that was with 100% commitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 When I first started school I hated English and loved math, but as math began to get more abstract and complex I shied away and embraced English. The worst part of English for me wasn't the dissection of books, but the speeches the students had to give. I hate public speaking. As for the dissection, and the why...for some of the more advanced topics such as Camus or Kafka, the why and dissection of the literature can be extremely complicated. For me, Metamorphosis was just some guy who randomly turned into an insect and lived in his house until I forget what happened. The parallels or "meaning" of such literature can be very complicated. That's why I mainly stick to non-fiction when I read books nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endzone_dave Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I hated quantum physics in college. It had nothing to do with my future and it was hard. The literature classes in college weren't much fun either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 "Either you get math or you don't" That's not true, at all. There are very clear-cut studies done showing that competency in math is directly correlated to the amount of work put in. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchogs Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 while i did well in the class, i hated german. i liked english, but hate analyzing poetry. i also disliked organic chemistry and plant physiology in college (major requirements). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander PK Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 MATH - Algebra, Trig, Calculus you name it. I hated math. Now on the flip side, I loved music and history. Botany was fun also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Does anyone on Earth use calculus aside from calculus teachers? It's only useful if you work in fields such as physics, biology, computer science, statistics, engineering, economics and medicine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickyshooZ Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 ANYTHING Math related...I'm talking algebra, statistics, calculus....I just cant do it, it never clicks. This. Absolutely can't do math. I was decent at geometry but I am overall horrible at math. On the flip side, I loved history (and any kind of social studies), English (but often hated the books they made us read), and even biology, even though I'm not hugely into science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 While we're talking about subjects we loved I loved history, especially 20th century history. Now when you start talking about economic policy & 20th century history, that's when things get a little hazy. Around the 19th and 20th century people like Marx came about and introduced a bunch of complex economic systems which I still grapple with today. such as the difference between communism and socialism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 It's only useful if you work in fields such as physics, biology, computer science, statistics, engineering, economics and medicine. Anybody that is examining how something changes over time and hasn't at least tried to apply different aspects of calculus to the subject isn't doing a very good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Math, science and foreign languages were always my stumbling block. I don't do well in subjects that don't require a degree of subjectivity and interpretation. I'm just not that good with numbers and exact figures. I like subjects that give me some creative wiggle room. Apart from that, I usually like school. I've always done well in English and history (my two best subjects). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bay Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Like many others, math in all of its forms. Made chemistry a chore as well. I could really bust my butt at times and figure it out but I hated it so much that I usually didn't try that hard. Usually, my problem was that I'd miss the obvious stuff, too, which frustrated me like crazy. I was never a fan of the over analytical literature stuff either. I told myself if I ever wrote I would just write a story for the sake of a story. I appreciate it a little more now that I'm older, but I still don't really like to go too deep into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 It's only useful if you work in fields such as physics, biology, computer science, statistics, engineering, economics and medicine. I know people who work in almost all of those fields, and I'm in engineering myself. I don't know and have never met a single person who uses actual calculus at their job. You probably have smarter friends than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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