Hardest Class at U-M?
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I'll admit that I was a poltical science major, so I never had to deal with these tests where an A is really a 25%. How is that even a legitimate class? If an A-level student is operating at a level of comprehension that is below just marking "C" on everything, is one really learning anything at all?
It seems to me you can't have it both ways. If a class like this is curved, is it really a hard class since the objective is clearly not to actually learn what is being taught?
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lol
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August 26th, 2010 at 1:00 PM ^
I had to chuckle at the few mentions of ME 235 (Thermo). I remember getting something like a 17% on the second exam....and an A in the class. The material was difficult, but at least there wasn't anyone out there who could wreck the curve.
Diff EQ was tough for me as well. I aced Calc 3 somehow, really no trouble at all. Then Diff EQ blindsided me. My professor didn't speak English either.
I think for sheer amount of work, ME 395 takes the cake for me. As someone noted, it was just a bunch or really long lab reports. Lots of sleeping in the Dude that semester. The hilarious part was the class had a technical writing portion that was just about equally weighted with the engineering work. We had these brillant controls professors whose lectures carried the same weight as the tech writing GSIs. The split for amount of effort the two sections required was about 99/1 weighted for the science, but the grading was 50/50.
Fluid Dynamics (don't remember what the course# was) was probably the hardest conceptually. Everybody could tell that not even the professor understood Navier-Stokes. Heavily curved at every turn....
November 30th, 2010 at 10:06 PM ^
MATH 597 (Measure Theory).
November 16th, 2012 at 6:39 AM ^
How ironic. I'vs got a Quantum Mechanics test in my high school AP Chem class in about 20 minutes.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:52 AM ^
"Why Do People Believe In Gods?" with Dr. Malley. I took it to finish up my psychology bachelor's as a senior. For such a "philisophical" style psychology course, the content was pretty dense and not really as open to interpretation as the title might suggest.
He also made sure to publicly ridicule you if you missed out on his lectures. Office hours were pretty non-existent and I swear that if you didn't agree with his opinion/views on particular subjects he held extra disdain for you.
Also, he wrote the textbook for the course and constantly touted it as the "bible on religion" (no pun intended). Definitely not the way I wanted to spend my last semester at UM. I ended up with an A but the workload was definitely not neccessary for such a specialized psych course.
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