Biology is HARD

[GrimmJeeper]

I know we have quite a few students on here, whats your least favorite class? Or when you were in school what was it?

Currently I'm going to school for Graphic Design, and I love all my classes but one. Biology is really kicking my butt. I have to write a 2000 word essay on why the E. coli bacteria is a model organism and the characteristics that make it particularly useful in genetic experiments.

Say what? :shocked:

[karstic]

Why are you taking Bio? Are you getting an AA or AS?

[GrimmJeeper]

im going for a Bachelors degree, im taking bio as one of my sciences classes.

[wheelinscott]

english class last semester kicked my butt. the teacher would basically grade how she wanted. for instance she would say that she wouldn't grade our grammer in a paper and then i would get the paper back and she would mark it way down for my grammer ( i suck at english) thank goodness my degree doesnt require a ton of english (engineering major)

[aparke4]

tip of the iceberg! I just got out of orgo chem, genetics and cell bio last semester... welcome to the parade! I bet it is tough because bio these days leads up to pre med and they like to weed out peeps... dig into the material and enjoy it - makes it much more manageable - become a hermit sometimes and you will be pleased with you semester grade I promise!

[kastein]

Worst class: continuous time signals & analysis. I sucked hard at differential equations.

Best class: advanced microprocessor system design (and microprocessor system design, and microprocessor architecture, and all the prerequisites...) Enjoyed it, kicked it's butt hard. Yeah, I'm a computer engineer now... Stick with what you enjoy most otherwise you'll never enjoy work, and not enjoying work is a horrible way to spend your life.

[theNAST1EST]

I learned my lesson in Bio. There should be many other course offerings that will satisfy science requirements. Try something in the Geology or Earth Science departments. I found courses like Geology, Ecology, The Planets, and Space: Galaxies and Cosmos to be awesome alternatives.

[karstic]

english class last semester kicked my butt. the teacher would basically grade how she wanted. for instance she would say that she wouldn't grade our grammer in a paper and then i would get the paper back and she would mark it way down for my grammer ( i suck at english) thank goodness my degree doesnt require a ton of english (engineering major)

But your job will, learn to write well.

Resumes, reports, proposals, field memos, RFPs, manuals, the list goes on.

[wheelinscott]

But your job will, learn to write well.

Resumes, reports, proposals, field memos, RFPs, manuals, the list goes on.

i work where im going to work in the future (if all pans out right) and we have a lady that her job is to fill out the reports, i just fill out data (for now) :D

yes i agree i am going to need to write and do those sort of things, just not as much as others in other degrees. im not a crappy writer is the mechanics and grammer and those sort of things im bad at. (which is most of writing lol)

[RichP]

I watched my son go from a criminal justice degree which he got, to biology and environmental engineering, he who avoided math and science all through high school. :D :D :D karma strikes again :D :D :D :D :D
Dam if he's not good at it. He was going to graduate this dec but decided to round out a bit more and go for a spring grad, hoping the job market turns round too.... he had a ball [buster] this summer as a back country ranger for the park service, got legs like tree stumps now from those 10-20 mile hikes up and down the white mountains every day...

[Cnickgo]

Modern Physics. Everything was a breeze as a Physics major until that horrid class. I don't think it was the material, but more the professor that made that class so hard. The downside was that I was going to have that professor for at least three more classes and an advisor. That's when allied health started looking like a good idea.

[tbburg]

Been a while, but I'd have to say Philosophy. Might have been a better class if it hadn't been taught by a Philosophy grad student.

Also, don't remember the title, but I think it was CS-202(?) Basic computer programming(beginning, not the BASIC language) The professor had invented his own "computer language" that we had to learn, write all of our programming in, take tests on, etc. Then, because his pet language wouldn't actually run on a computer, we had to(oh god, this is going to date me,...)convert the programming into Pascal to "prove" it would actually work.

[RNMedic]

But your job will, learn to write well.

Resumes, reports, proposals, field memos, RFPs, manuals, the list goes on.

HERE HERE!!!!! makes you look smart and sound smart

[wolfpackjeeper]

I am in Navy/Air Force Joint flight training. College was easy compared to this. You get 2 weeks of the firehose of information, followed by a bunch of simulator events and flights where you get to prove you were paying attention. Every flight is graded, and might as well be considered a final, since if You fail it you get to put on your service uniform and go tell the CO, XO and OpsO why, then sit in study hall for 12 hours a day when you are not flying until your grades get better.

I have not failed anything, or gotten close really, but there have been times upon landing where I could not remember if my service uniform was cleaned and pressed. If I had studied and worked half this hard in college I would have been top of my class.

[tbburg]

...,If I had studied and worked half this hard in college I would have been top of my class.Ya,... Well,...

If your college could have said: "Get less then a B- and you can paint rocks for then next 6 years." You would have worked a lot harder at it. :rof:

[snail]

i'm a biology major going for my BS, ive done calc 1+2, organic chem 1+2, tons of bio/anatomy classes, but the one thats really kicked my @ss so far has been physics. physics 2 is gonna be horrible

[IslanderOffRoad]

I'm currently hating Quantitative Business Analysis.

The material doesn't seem that hard but the professor is an expert at getting it wrong and confusing the class.

[tbburg]

I'm currently hating Quantitative Business Analysis.

The material doesn't seem that hard but the professor is an expert at getting it wrong and confusing the class.Look at the bright side: learn it his way and you can go to work for the DNC!

[RichP]

Ya,... Well,...

If your college could have said: "Get less then a B- and you can paint rocks for then next 6 years." You would have worked a lot harder at it. :rof:

Oh man, ain't that the truth.... flunk this and you spend the next 4 years chipping paint... nothing looks like more fun than hanging over the side of an aircraft carrier in a bosun's chair doing body work....

[wolfpackjeeper]

yea, at least I have the advantage of enjoying this too. College was just a means to an end.

[tbburg]

....flunk this and you spend the next 4 years chipping paint...In '84 a Navy recruiter offered to put me in their nuke program. Everything sounded great until I asked about the wash out rate. At the time it was above 90%.
"So what happens then?"
"Well, you still have your eight year commitment to fulfill,..."
:laugh2:

[GrimmJeeper]

In '84 a Navy recruiter offered to put me in their nuke program. Everything sounded great until I asked about the wash out rate. At the time it was above 90%.
"So what happens then?"
"Well, you still have your eight year commitment to fulfill,..."
:laugh2:

my best friend growing up went in as a nuke. he's doing great going on 10 years but i didnt see him at all the first 4 :roflmao: definately alot of work.

[tbburg]

yea, at least I have the advantage of enjoying this too,...Why civilians can't seem to understand the attraction of the Military:

Look at all these cool toys!
"but the training sucks!
Ya,... but look at ALL THESE COOL TOYS!!:loveu:

[XJ=Fun]

Thankfully i ended up with the coolest professor for biology, his name is wynn cudmore, and he is at chemeketa. it was a three segment class so it lasted the whole year, and i got all of my required science credits out of the way. he takes you on different field trips all over Oregon, we even went to the H.J andrews experimental forest, and canoeing along the little nestucca river over at pacific city! My least favorite class is math. i have to finish my associates degree next term with trig:*( but then im off to western to start my criminal justice major!

[wolfpackjeeper]

I liked trig, in fact I liked math all the way through Calc 3 and Diffeq's. It starts getting kinda sketchy after that, what with all the "fuzzy" math

[RichP]

In '84 a Navy recruiter offered to put me in their nuke program. Everything sounded great until I asked about the wash out rate. At the time it was above 90%.
"So what happens then?"
"Well, you still have your eight year commitment to fulfill,..."
:laugh2:

Thats what I enlisted for, only then it was a 6 year obligation. I ended up in electronics, same 6 year obligation and darn near 24 months of schools before I even left for a real job. The only reason I went for either was because it was November and I had no desire to freeze my nads off at Great Lakes, going nuke or electronics was an immediate ticket to NTC San Diego...

[bigalpha]

I pretty much suck hard at math. I'm pretty amazing in science, though. I made a 34 on my science portion of the ACT.

Our Geology program had a Quantitative Geosciences class. It was basically a stats class. It wasn't really that hard, except it was the Paleo Prof. teaching it, and he's terrible at teaching math .. from Powerpoint.

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

International Law.

[UNCC_99XJ]

Worst class in my Mechanical Engineering Tech. major was Thermodynamics hands down. That one wrecked me last semester...enthalpy's and entropy's and even just thinking about it is making my head spin again. I'm in Thermo Lab this semester...so we'll see how that goes.

[wolfpackjeeper]

I never had to take thermogoddamics, and I am super happy about that.

[UNCC_99XJ]

I never had to take thermogoddamics, and I am super happy about that.

LOL! I've never heard anyone call it that! I'll be sure to reference that one next time somebody asks me about the course.

[tbburg]

Oh quit yer whining. Thermodynamics,... hard,.... Ha!

Rule one: You can't win.
Rule two: You can't break even.

I mean,... how hard is that?

TANSTAAFL! :D

[wolfpackjeeper]

TANSTAAFL! :D

The Moon is A Harsh Mistress reference? Or did you pick that up somewhere else?

[T3hk1w1]

RAH is not the only one to use that expression-it's in the common vocabulary :)

[wolfpackjeeper]

right, but I have not heard it in the common vocabulary in a long time. We are rapidly turning into a society that believes in the fee lunch.

[tbburg]

The Moon is A Harsh Mistress reference?Yep!

And while "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" is a popular saying, I've only seen it printed TANSTAAFL in a Heinlein book or as a reference from one