At BYU, what was the most difficult 100 level class?

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Nov 21, 2016
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Most difficult class you took in college?

kccougar All-American

11/21/16 10:30am

thermodynamics

PickleButton

11/21/16 10:31am

Yep

MacGyver

11/21/16 11:08am

A macro ManEc class. Teacher was horrible.

cougfanblue

11/21/16 10:32am

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rivercitycoug

11/21/16 10:33am

93 cougar

11/21/16 10:34am

^this^

rggee

11/21/16 10:39am

By far hardest BYU class I took.

JohnnyComeLately

11/21/16 12:22pm

This, and it's not close

KingDave

11/21/16 1:24pm

I liked O-chem. Biochem was another matter

Dread Pirate Westley

11/21/16 1:35pm

Would have been nice to have a schedule where O-Chem was the hardest class.

jensen46

11/21/16 2:10pm

U smart

CFMcK

11/21/16 3:23pm

Zoology 260 my first semester as a Freshman. My best friend died in a car

crack

11/21/16 10:33am

I had that same experience with my engineering classes my frosh year

Big Daddy D

11/21/16 10:43am

I was able to salvage most of my other grades, but ended up with a D+ in that

crack

11/21/16 10:49am

Bowling. That or Statics.

Niiineteeen84

11/21/16 10:33am

I took beginning bowling. They said if you bowled a 200 game you

Indy Coug

11/21/16 10:34am

Got my name up on the board for high game when I took beginning bowling.

93 cougar

11/21/16 10:38am

Dr. C's class just about ruined me. I was so glad to escape there with a C+.

Flippy

11/21/16 10:35am

I enjoyed some of the scenery in bowling.

Dread Pirate Westley

11/21/16 10:56am

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BYUMizzou

11/21/16 11:33am

vs golf when they taught it for credit and you had to shoot PAR to get an A

Nat Gas Man

11/21/16 11:39am

Econometrics

jakesnake

11/21/16 10:35am

Econ 388. Tough class.

BostonCougar

11/21/16 11:27am

Yep. That was mine too

mcnasty

11/21/16 9:14pm

Meh. Probably depended on the teacher.

conetah

11/21/16 9:48pm

Math 344

Indy Coug

11/21/16 10:35am

Math 346 for me. Lebesgue integration, calculus on manifolds, spectral calc, etc

OlanchoCoug

11/21/16 9:40pm

Brutal stuff. I wasn't a math major so I escaped stuff like that

Indy Coug

11/22/16 11:13am

Econometrics and Genetics

Big Daddy D

11/21/16 10:37am

Stats

Sea Chicken

11/21/16 10:37am

Classical Japanese

NC CougarBear

11/21/16 10:38am

Really? How long ago did you take it?

Schultz is back

11/21/16 1:09pm

1888

Nat Gas Man

11/21/16 1:10pm

22 years ago. Prof. Perkins I think was his name. Absolutely brutal

NC CougarBear

11/21/16 3:12pm

Game Theory

El Careeb

11/21/16 10:39am

Did you learn how to win at Risk when someone else owns Australia?

Kilgore Trout

11/21/16 11:52am

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Kilgore Trout

11/21/16 11:52am

That class was insane.

conetah

11/21/16 9:51pm

Linguistics trillion-hundred

Avery

11/21/16 10:39am

That freshman physics class with Dr. Allred.

silk

11/21/16 10:39am

Physics 220 -- electricity and magnetism.

silk

11/21/16 10:43am

This one!

jxncoog

11/21/16 11:30am

Ballroom dancing class with my new wife. It almost ruined our marriage.

ol' Blue Eyes

11/21/16 10:40am

As an undergraduate: Abstract Algebra or Analysis

WanderingCougar

11/21/16 10:40am

New Testament. And I was a Mechanical Engineering major.

Ragnar Danneskjold

11/21/16 10:41am

I had a BoM class that maybe wasn't the hardest class, but definitely the hardes

flavordave

11/21/16 11:13am

With Griggs by any chance? Really tough class.

Revolution

11/21/16 12:02pm

No idea. With those classes I purged them all out of my memory. The horror, not the content.

Ragnar Danneskjold

11/22/16 6:28am

I started a New Testament class with Griggs. I heard he was an awesome teacher

LaserCoug

11/24/16 1:15pm

By far my favorite religion class. I learned a lot.

Revolution

11/29/16 9:56am

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murrolems

11/21/16 1:06pm

chem 105, Dr. Cannon

curmudgeon

11/21/16 10:41am

And to anyone that thinks a 100 series class could not be the hardest

curmudgeon

11/21/16 11:00am

Chem 105 never felt like a weeder class. Not as muhc as cell bio or ochem to a

unctoothman

11/21/16 11:02am

It was in 2001 when I was there. Cannon warned us beforehand.

curmudgeon

11/21/16 11:08am

I had Cannon in 2000 for 105 & 106, same semesters I also had Flemming for ochem

unctoothman

11/21/16 11:21am

Well your brain is clearly wired for chem better than mine.

curmudgeon

11/21/16 3:30pm

Maybe he was tougher on you guys. I don't remember him ever leaving stuff out.

unctoothman

11/21/16 4:12pm

At BYU, what was the most difficult 100 level class?

Hank Rearden

11/21/16 10:41am

Physics 122 has to be up there

Indy Coug

11/21/16 10:42am

That's the one.... I looked it up, and I believe it changed to phy 220.

silk

11/21/16 10:45am

I took it during the summer and had 3+ hours of homework everyday

mudpupper

11/21/16 10:47am

I remember the first day of class well. The professor said to expect 4 hours

flavordave

11/21/16 11:35am

Physics sucked.

Niiineteeen84

11/21/16 11:01am

absolutely this one

franklyvulgar

11/21/16 11:04am

Yep. This one killed me.

flavordave

11/21/16 11:34am

Physics 122 was challenging at the time I took it as a Freshman but by the time

Northwest Cougar

11/21/16 12:00pm

Yeah, EE360 and EE460 (electromagnetics) did cover harder material than Phy122

dilbert

11/21/16 12:34pm

Chem 105/106

rggee

11/21/16 10:44am

I loved the lab, it was my most favorite.

CougarAndMerlin

11/21/16 10:51am

Same, but IIRC there was a Chemistry exam

Busiturtle

11/21/16 10:54am

Biol 130, if I remember right. Like 500 students in the Joseph Smith building. Went through slides so fast you could

CougarAndMerlin

11/21/16 10:53am

Econ 110 wasn't hard but it demanded the most time

conetah

11/21/16 9:53pm

Compiler Design

Tim

11/21/16 10:45am

Ahhhh.... the good old days of learning Assembly on an Apple II

Indy Coug

11/21/16 10:47am

French pronunciation: 1 of few classes I felt I just couldn't learn the stuff

byujdmba

11/21/16 10:47am

Racquetball 101

yorksama

11/21/16 10:47am

Probably my favorite class I took at BYU

supertux

11/21/16 12:21pm

Linear System Theory

Busiturtle

11/21/16 10:49am

O-Chem

BigTD

11/21/16 10:49am

Calculus 113 or whatever the 2nd one is

stoils

11/21/16 10:49am

They do make 113 harder than they need to. Too much homework.

jensen46

11/21/16 2:33pm

Honors Intensive Writing. Never take this class!

YSeattle

11/21/16 10:49am

Should have taken the superficial writing class like I did!

Busiturtle

11/21/16 10:56am

I have it on good authority Busiturtle ACED this class.

Hank Rearden

11/21/16 10:58am

Managerial Accounting

LaVellIfIKnow

11/21/16 10:52am

I haven't had a 'tough class' since sophomore year of high school. but since you said most difficult, I'd have to go

SuperTank

11/21/16 11:00am

A course on how to teach Fine Arts.

Jeffacka

11/21/16 11:02am

Quantum Mechanics - Physics 551 and 552. Nothing else can touch that

LaserCoug

11/21/16 11:03am

Do you use the stuff you learned in your job now?

SandYFan

11/21/16 11:06am

I do use some of it. Somedays I wish I could still do more of the math

LaserCoug

11/21/16 11:42am

Astronomy. Only class I ever dropped.

Cougarclaw

11/21/16 11:04am

This thread is giving me PTSD.

SandYFan

11/21/16 11:05am

Good thing Cougarboard is a safe space.

El Careeb

11/21/16 11:16am

Econ 210 with Kearl.

Cougar Insider

11/21/16 11:09am

110?

rggee

11/21/16 11:16am

That's the one. I'm old. It was 20 years ago, but I got 2 of 3 #s right.

Cougar Insider

11/21/16 11:20am

If it's based on grades, Econ 381 was my toughest class at BYU

BYUMizzou

11/21/16 11:17am

can't decide between Advanced Kinetics and Partial Differential Equations

nwcat

11/21/16 11:11am

Medical physics.

slowhiteguy

11/21/16 11:14am

EE 360 - Lines and Fields

workindev

11/21/16 11:15am

Corporate tax. It's like real law, only written by Dr. Seuss.

BlooGeek

11/21/16 11:16am

Loved that class.

CDV

11/21/16 1:21pm

Social Dance 180 with ex-girlfriend (well, ex- two weeks into class).

Sandstone Cougar

11/21/16 11:16am

That'd be rough.

crack

11/21/16 11:21am

Isn't 2 weeks before the drop deadline?

LaserCoug

11/21/16 12:03pm

Maybe it was a little later than that. I would have had to

Sandstone Cougar

11/21/16 12:16pm

Computational Theory - CS 252

HuskerCoug

11/21/16 11:30am

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BYUMizzou

11/21/16 11:31am

I dropped CS after that class too. It and the Assembly class

Indy Coug

11/21/16 11:33am

The second CS class I took (can't remember which one) also caused me too many

Coach's Dad

11/21/16 12:25pm

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BYUMizzou

11/21/16 12:35pm

Functional anatomy. Shouldn't have been hard but the teacher made it impossible

boorad

11/21/16 11:30am

Advanced partial differential equations.

Kilgore Trout

11/21/16 11:48am

My toughest class for me was Calc 2 - but that was mostly because the teacher

PharmD

11/21/16 11:57am

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BYUMizzou

11/21/16 12:20pm

Accounting 200. I was lost all class. Ended with a C- which curved up to a B+.

vegasnative

11/21/16 11:57am

Poli Sci 200

Cougarealist

11/21/16 12:02pm

at least you didn't take it when it was Poli Sci 300!

Nat Gas Man

11/21/16 12:13pm

Poli Sci 370- Theory of International Relations, Law school- Civil Procedure

byujag

11/21/16 12:20pm

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Sandstone Cougar

11/21/16 12:55pm

My worst 1L grade was Property. Now I'm a real estate lawyer. Law school is

mncougar

11/21/16 1:20pm

And I bet you have yet to use the Rule in Shelley's Case.

Sandstone Cougar

11/21/16 1:38pm

Or the Rule Against Perpetuities. And so much of real estate law is statute-

mncougar

11/21/16 3:13pm

For me, biz tax and corp securities were the hardest law school courses

Solomon Levi

11/22/16 9:50am

Continuum Mechanics and Finite Element Analysis

WDaddy

11/21/16 12:26pm

Partial Diff. Eq. was my hardest undergrad class.

Radioactive Coug

11/21/16 1:33pm

If we're including grad school, Contracts. I had a terrible teacher.

ebv

11/21/16 1:45pm

Physical Chemistry for sure.

jensen46

11/21/16 2:09pm

I'll give you P-Chem, but Process Control?

rggee

11/21/16 3:15pm

Yeah for some reason it didn't really click. I still got an A- but

jensen46

11/22/16 11:59am

I took a graduate class in machine learning. It was pretty dang hard, although

cheezedawg

11/21/16 2:18pm

Stats - considering being on meds following back surgery and blood clots in my lungs

Cougarpride

11/21/16 9:27pm

English 101

HighHorse

11/22/16 6:34am

Physics 318, the weedout class for physics majors.

Veracruz

11/22/16 8:00am

Calculus

Romex

11/22/16 9:53am

Astronomy 101. At UVSC before I transferred to BYU.

RalphWiggam

11/22/16 11:45am

Of course he was full of crap. Parsec is a unit of distance

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