What is the hardest class you took in college?

1. Organic chemistry. Only because it was at 8am and the prof didn't post notes online. And because I slept through it every day.
   — BBQcupcakes


2. It was a graduate level course in history that I took my junior year. The required reading averaged 800 pages per week, not counting research for the term paper. Taught myself to read a page a minute while taking notes. At that rate a 5 hour stint in the library could knock off 300 pages of reading. So it was 20 hours of study per week to keep up with the reading and write the paper. At the end of the semester I had hundreds of pages of notes. Studying for the final exam meant taking notes on my notes. Pulled an A- and was proud of it.
   — doublestitch


3. The class average for the Biochem 1 final at my university was nine percent so I'd say that one.
   — xkforce






4. Public Speaking. It was required for all degrees and had to be taken within your first year. I was an extreme introvert. Having to stand up in front of 30+ people, act confident, and make eye contact while speaking clearly and fluently on a subject was the single most draining thing you could ask me to do at the time. Good news is, I learned quite a bit from that class and it gave me a fair bit more confidence in social situations. I'm still on the introverted side, but nothing like 18-year-old me.
   — smokehidesstars


5. Data structures took a lot of work.
   — slxsx


6. Organic Chemistry. Scheduled on a Saturday from 9am-3pm STRAIGHT.
   — ktktkt123456






7. Ring Theory, it was a theoretical math class entirely proof based that my brain didn't really wrap around.
   — nkdeck07


8. Pain, Suffering, and Death. It was MWF at 8AM. The class was easy in terms of difficulty. The only grades were class participation. But it was hard because of the subject matter. The books were all cultural understandings of death and dying. Super interesting but super depressing. But the hardest part was we had to volunteer 100 hours at an organization that dealt with the class namesake. Want to help out at a childcare center exclusively for HIV positive toddlers? Go for it. Nursing home? Take your pick. Suicide hotline? Work on your people skills. It was the most interesting, depressing, and overall worth it class.
   — 901rhodent


9. 'Linear Algebra for Scientists and Engineers' Not a good class for a Psych student with a passing interest in math.
   — 4a4a






10. Differential Equations, where the professor was more concerned with perfecting his comedy routine than teaching the material. He thought he was one of the greatest wits the world had ever known because he thought up a nickname for each student and remembered them for the whole semester. It was the most tragic thing I've ever seen, and that includes my report card at the end.
    — Minmax231


11. Discrete Mathematics. *Fuck* that class. And surprise, surprise - fourteen years later I still haven't used a single goddamned piece of it.
    — GrokEinSpiel


12. I'm a Biochemistry major and the hardest class by far was that goddamn art credit for gen ed they made me fucking take. I did not want to buy all the bullshit materials. I got in trouble for using crayola crayons.
    — kobillabong