What subject is the most difficult for you?

@raineyes (554)
United States
December 10, 2010 9:16pm CST
As a college student, I find courses that don't apply to my major to be the hardest. It isn't because they are too hard for me. It's because they bore me or I already know about them/don't have any interest/etc. What are the hardest courses for you?
11 responses
@digidon (165)
• Philippines
11 Dec 10
The hardest courses in my opinion are the subjects that bore/doesn't interest you. I mean how can you be motivated for the topics you don't like?
@raineyes (554)
• United States
11 Dec 10
That's my point exactly about boring classes. Glad we agree.
• Philippines
11 Dec 10
The most difficult subjects for me are anything that has mathematics in it. Examples are algebra, trigonometry and statistics. I have to take these subjects just because of my course. I also have to take Physics! I don't hate science but if it has mathematics in it, I hate it! Like in chemistry and physics.
@raineyes (554)
• United States
11 Dec 10
I am totally with you on this one! I do NOT like math at all, and I like science but math significantly makes it not likable. I like biology though.
• Singapore
12 Dec 10
The most difficult subjects are math, which are not even related to my course but because I'm part of the engineering school, it's a must to take it. Basically, I'm not a person who's good with numbers and plus that fact that I find math boring but will get easier with practice, math doesn't appeal to me much.
@jordq7 (576)
• Philippines
12 Dec 10
Hi there raineyes!!If you will ask me of what is the hardest subject I encountered in my course, that would be programming..By the way Im an IT student and for me so far this is the hardest. You need to be very logical and you need to assume how the system or software you are programming will work..I'm just not born to a great programmer...I can say I don't have the talent for it...and I think programming doesn't like me,...
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
Being a person of the arts and letters, it is easy to assume that I have the most aversion when it comes to numbers and anything that is related to mathematics. I always struggle with the subject and found myself agonizing over long hours trying to make sense of numbers, equations and other things found in math. Although it was a Waterloo, I had to take 2 math courses - general math and statistics. i barely got a passable grade on the former becuase the course is somewhat a review of all high school mathematics subjects. I was unfortunate on the latter since I have no prior intorduction or idea on what the subject is about. when I did have the hang of it, it was too late and I was already on the way of not passing the subject.
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
Being a person of the arts and letters, it is easy to assume that I have the most aversion when it comes to numbers and anything that is related to mathematics. I always struggle with the subject and found myself agonizing over long hours trying to make sense of numbers, equations and other things found in math. Although it was a Waterloo, I had to take 2 math courses - general math and statistics. i barely got a passable grade on the former becuase the course is somewhat a review of all high school mathematics subjects. I was unfortunate on the latter since I have no prior intorduction or idea on what the subject is about. when I did have the hang of it, it was too late and I was already on the way of not passing the subject.
• Philippines
11 Dec 10
hardest course? for me it's engineering and accountancy. i really find it hard to deal with math since i entered school. i'm just not good at it no matter how attentive i listen no matter how i focus and study. since the courses i mentioned both revolves in math, for me it's the hardest.
@pokumon (644)
• United States
11 Dec 10
Physics courses by far. I just can't wrap my head around them. I think sometimes I just genuinely don't understand it like with waves, sometimes I think it's harder than it actually is like with astrophysics, and most of the time I just get intimidated and quit doing the work (like electricity and magnetism). I still have to pass 2 physics courses to graduate and I'm dreading them. They are freshman courses and now I'm a senior. I've failed one of them twice in both the practical track and the analytic track. At my school you have to take 5 physics courses no matter what major you are. I don't know any other school with as rigorous a CORE curriculum as Caltech's.
@yippih (101)
11 Dec 10
My hardest subject for me during my college life were the complementary subject which was totally differ from my main course, hate to attend those classes while all of us having difficult time and homework with the main course. I do not the reason for us to attend those classes, just wasting my time, up to now, i have no more memory regarding those knowledge i had learnt during complementary classes, same goes to all my friend at same class. Happy mylotting.
@prateek2 (28)
• India
11 Dec 10
for me literature was. but since its not my subject now so it doesn't bother me. i am not creative at writing and reading bores me so i dint liked it much.
@ivancdp (73)
• Brazil
12 Dec 10
I tend to get bad grades on subjects involved in the humanity area, like social studies and philosophy. Mostly because you have to read a lot to study for the tests. I'd rather do math than have to read all that lousy stuff