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Anyone ever taken a really stupid college course that was just a complete waste of your time and benefitted you not at all?

Mine, I'm taking it right now; it's a class dealing with Classical Archaeology. I signed up for it because I thought it would be cool; I guess I must have been brainwashed by the media into the belief that archaeology would be cool, because my teacher made it quite clear on the first day that it was not. I don't read the material, I can't get excited about the class; this would be OK if it were somewhat related to my major (we all know how much Accountants need to have a grasp on classical archaeology!), but it's just one of many possible electives that the department requires us to take, and I guess I just picked the WRONG one this time. All we do is look at fucking pots all day in endless powerpoint presentations and read insanely boring material on archaeological techniques. Oh well, I have a midterm in two days and about as much grasp on the material as I had on the first day of class, so it's likely that I'll have to drop the class at great expense to myself in the future. At least the rest of my semester won't be miserable.

This class just REVELS in the amount of boredom it causes, the teacher brags about how much more boring and uninteresting real archaeology is in comparison to the popular conception of it. At least I have Science & Pseudoscience, one of the coolest electives ever, to balance it out.

How about you guys? Any classes that make you feel like this?

I took a philosophy class at a local junior college. It was horrible, so was an art history class at the same collge. I dropped the art class and ended up taking a similar class at SJSU my last sememster there. That class and the teacher were very interesting so I was pleased.

Introduction to Computers.

Basically, it's a spare period with an exam.

Let's see.. anthropology. Perhaps the stupidest class in the world, what are the sexual symbologies of a yam? Gosh.

So far, so good, but I have to take a history course next semester on something that will totally not interest me, so that's gonna suck donkey balls.

Lets see....most of the stuff I've done at university....

I didnt turn up for most of a year and still passed the final exams.....

a class in which i wasn´t allowed to use CAD and 3D programms but had to do all the shit with fucking INK!!! you know how hard it is to remove ink if you made a misstake? *grumble*

Whether you enjoy the class or not depends more on the professor than anything else. If you're a good teacher, you can make hundreds of clay pots interesting.

Philosophy used to bore me until I took an intro class with a kickass philosophy professor named Phil Dowe at UTAS. Similarly, I used to love art and was fascinated by the way it has changed over history, and then I took an art class at Towson which promptly killed all my desires to learn more about it.

Well, when I didn't know any better, I listened to the councilors when I first started college. That resulted in a number of classes, some of which were remedial, and I find out, I didn't need half of them. That includes an introduction to computers class, which did nothing more than teach me how to click the right mouse button. Hey, at least I knew my friend suffered more, he had a job two years by then programming. LoL.

The worst class I had was sociology. It's a borderline subject anyway but the class I took at junior college was less interesting than the high school class I had taken on the subject 10 years earlier.

I guess it would have been okay but the professor was a push over. About half way through the class I had so many points I could have skipped the rest of the semester and still had enough for a C.

Most of the year was wasted because everyone was supposed to do a (cheesy) sociology study with questionaires etc... and then present it on a specific day. Well, we had lots of people who were gone or not ready on their group's day so for most of the rest of the semester we kept having lame presentations. I don't think we wen't much passed chapter 5 or 6 in class lectures about our text book.

I guess my biggest problem is that I don't miss class unless I am specifically told by the professor that I don't need to be there. Basically I was bored out of my gord for the last half of that class.

Presentations? I hope my History course at Uni that I start in October doesn't require me to make a presentation; I suck balls talking in front of an audience.

ALI_G wrote:Presentations? I hope my History course at Uni that I start in October doesn't require me to make a presentation; I suck balls talking in front of an audience.

These weren't too bad since we weren't at the front of the room for the presentation. I have no trouble speaking during class but like you said I "suck balls" if I have to stand up in front of the class.

Tsyroc wrote:

ALI_G wrote:Presentations? I hope my History course at Uni that I start in October doesn't require me to make a presentation; I suck balls talking in front of an audience.

These weren't too bad since we weren't at the front of the room for the presentation. I have no trouble speaking during class but like you said I "suck balls" if I have to stand up in front of the class.

I can't even read out in class. I can put my hand up and defend a point for ten minutes in front of 30 people, but if I have to read anything more than a few lines long in front of 3+ people, I freeze.

I don't know why, I'm a person with good confidence and when I was at school I would always put my hand up to read out, and loved acting. It's horrible worrying that the teacher will ask you to read out.

salm wrote:a class in which i wasn´t allowed to use CAD and 3D programms but had to do all the shit with fucking INK!!! you know how hard it is to remove ink if you made a misstake? *grumble*

Yeah, I do. I had a VisComm teacher that had to have damn near everything done in ink and damn did it suck ass!

I suppose the worst of the bunch was "Introduction to Statistics" it was 2 lectures a week + a lab on integration between 1 and 0 with BS cosmic significance attatched to whatever values you got.....

Though it was worth a credit.

Thing was it was compulsary and so was an advanced maths class......

Psych 101...you couldn't fail unbless you were a braindead moos(the teach allowed you to get half credit back on every mistake for a test, if you corrected it along with the class)

Gave extra credit....etc, and yet people fasiled(I still couldn't fathom it, mostly because how...HOW?)

Overall the problem was, the class was rather boring and unchallenging.

Most useless class I ever took was Human Geography. It was an easy A though.

Took World Religion to get myself an easy A, unfortunately the prof was a religious whack-a-loon who believed Mother Theresa had an aura and glowed in the dark. She spent more time telling us how religion was all good than actually teaching course material, it was like going to church except that I got a course credit out of it.

Reading, yes reading. I tested out, but a mistake i didnt catch put me in a reading class for stupid people. The teacher couldnt maintain control of the freshman level class(I was a freshman) And we read the most innane drivel imaginable. I was the only person in the class that could read with any kind of skill. Not only that, but the teacher talked down to us.

Zaia wrote:Whether you enjoy the class or not depends more on the professor than anything else. If you're a good teacher, you can make hundreds of clay pots interesting.

i dont think that´s entirely true. i dont have much to do with my professors. they are simpley the old guys with white hair and cool cars who are in 17.01 and talk, show slides and crapy power point presentations.
wether i enjoy the class depends more on the class itself, the problem, the tutors, my team, my state of creativity, the legitimate ways of solving the problem and a whole bunch of other stuff. professors are overrated.

i must say that it was different in highschool though. most of the times i had good teachers i´d get good grades.
but that changed with uni.

MAHOK!

I had a basic computer course. Insulted my intelligence.

Then there was the fucking Play Analysis course I took in my last semester. What a pain in the balls that one was...

Baron Mordo wrote:Introduction to Computers.

Basically, it's a spare period with an exam.

"Advanced" Computers sucked like hell last year. First quarted involved us just typing until we could get a *cough*whopping*cough* 30wpm. Needless to say, that was very dull. I ended up typing faster than the teacher herself. Next quarter? We ended up doing "animations" with ClarisWorks by creating about 200 pages, and moving the image a little each time. Then you string it together by going into slideshow mode. End result was a 60mb file.

Did I mention how when I couldn't open a disk, and was like "Oh, let me try it."? Turns out the disk was corrupted. She kept her holier than thou attitude the whole time.

At least I got back by somehow having one of my files crash her hard drive, erasing everything

Even a effortless A wasn't worth this torture. I opted for Journalism next semester, which was a lot more rewarding.

My history class last year didn't exactly suck, per se, but it was rather bizarre.

-teacher leaps up on desk-

"And then the Romans attacked and burned Carthage to the ground in a horribly bloody battle! They massacred and enslaved the population, salted the earth and torched the very stones of the city!"

-insert one-man reenactment here-

HemlockGrey wrote:My history class last year didn't exactly suck, per se, but it was rather bizarre.

-teacher leaps up on desk-

"And then the Romans attacked and burned Carthage to the ground in a horribly bloody battle! They massacred and enslaved the population, salted the earth and torched the very stones of the city!"

-insert one-man reenactment here-

My History teacher is very eccentric. He makes really bad puns and jokes, which thankfully goes over the head of most people at my school. Then there's the fact that he carries lots of useless information.

He's got two cute kids though. But they play Yu-Gi-Oh... Must turn them to MTG...

Exonerate wrote: He's got two cute kids though. But they play Yu-Gi-Oh... Must turn them to MTG...

L5R!