ITT: Classes that are absolutely pointless.

[Marylinn]

Post a class that you may be taking, or have taken in the past, that you find completely idiotic.

I'll start.


Trigonometry. Why do I need to know this **** to be a psychologist?

[Shrevident]

windows... im computer support and work in my schools computer lab as software support. why do i need to learn how to take screenshots and use the start menu??? COME ON

[bartmasta]

history

[MattFTW]

INGLISCH

[Fozzle]

Most English classes past maybe 8th or 9th grade seem to repeat the same old useless garbage.

[magnakaser]

Molecular Biology

[Narfle]

german

but it was either that or french, so yeah.

also the math course when i was reading HA(Jur). They spent 4 hours teaching people to calculate an average. Yah.

[Kros]

The classes I'm taking now (JPN101, Data Structures, Calc) are all fine but, looking down the line there are some very ew classes coming up.

I did *not* like Trig, I gotta say.

[Marylinn]

german

but it was either that or french, so yeah.

also the math course when i was reading HA(Jur). They spent 4 hours teaching people to calculate an average. Yah.
I like that most school systems require a secondary language to graduate high school. It's a sign that the country (And most other nations, not including America.) are growing together for the greater good.

Just don't make the mistake I did in high school. Take a useful language. I took Japanese, and so far have used it on two total occasions. Once about a year ago, before I left for college, I did subtitles for the news station I was working for at the time. Another was my senior trip to Japan for the summer. :(

[Thysios]

Most English classes past maybe 8th or 9th grade seem to repeat the same old useless garbage.

Pretty much.

In High School we had to, de construct poetry at least once each each.

WHO THE **** USES THAT IN THEIR LIFE.

[Narfle]

I like that most school systems require a secondary language to graduate high school. It's a sign that the country (And most other nations, not including America.) are growing together for the greater good.

Well if anyone that recieved that education actually learned to sorta speak the language, it might not be as bad as it is, but nobody i know has recieved anything beneficial from it. At all.

I only use my german nowadays to cuss out germans on the internet and translate Rammstein songs. And i spent about 8 hours each week for about 4 years listening to a worthless teacher telling me various dumb ****.

He was REALLY fond of germany. Our classes begun by him having us all sing the german national anthem for example. Also a really nasty guy, everytime i see League of Gentlemen im reminded of him (someone will know what i mean), although I think he was bi instead of gay.

And yeah, we are growing togheter, but seeing as 80% of the ones growing togheter speak english, why not use that as our unified language?

Anyway, that was a detour, just felt a reply would be in order.

[Isin]

Trigonometry. Why do I need to know this **** to be a psychologist?

Because it will make it easier to switch majors when you realize that nobody likes psych students. :p

Personally, I'm not taking anything that is completely useless, maybe some irrelevant to me, but you never know what might help. I'd just rather learn it all in a month or two rather than a whole semester.

[Fiesta]

I'm failing spanish II, not leanring a word of it.

So, I'd have to say that.

[Perras]

Design and creativity... DUDE MY CREATIVITY GLAND IS NOT STIMULATED!!

[Isin]

I'm failing spanish II, not leanring a word of it.

So, I'd have to say that.

...how can you fail spanish 2... you can skip class every other day and still get at least a B easily.

[Fiesta]

...how can you fail spanish 2... you can skip class every other day and still get at least a B easily.

Daily Quizzes, an hour of homework a night, a pregnant teacher that goes through more mood-swings than something that has a lot of mood-swings and insanely hard tests is how.

See, the main problem is the first year, I got a teacher that didn't teach us a word of spanish, and handed out grades like candy. I did well, so they put me in a 'More Challenging' course. Little did I know, Spanish builds on itself, and I've been keeping up remotely well, but not well enough to read / write the language.

To me, it's like learning the difference between was and were, without knowing the right gender 'The' to use.

:[

[Lyken]

Gotta be languages.

Everyone speaks English these days, and if they don't, sux to be them!

[Isin]

Gotta be languages.

Everyone speaks English these days, and if they don't, sux to be them!

I'd rage at you, but it's true. Unless you're going into PR, you can get by easily without knowing any other languages. That maybe wouldn't work for a smaller language, but it does for English.

[Sinestro]

Who takes classes they aren't planning on using?

Highschoolers?

Cause I had 6 solid years of pretty much nothing but Music and Teaching classes, with the first two having the general history/composition/math bullshit that every general arts degree requires.

[Lyken]

I'd rage at you, but it's true. Unless you're going into PR, you can get by easily without knowing any other languages. That maybe wouldn't work for a smaller language, but it does for English.


Yeah, it wasn't a troll post or anything. I speak enough of the well known languages to get me by, but for the most part its not needed :D

jij bent een ronde koelkast dikzak!

[magnakaser]

I like that most school systems require a secondary language to graduate high school. It's a sign that the country (And most other nations, not including America.) are growing together for the greater good.

Just don't make the mistake I did in high school. Take a useful language. I took Japanese, and so far have used it on two total occasions. Once about a year ago, before I left for college, I did subtitles for the news station I was working for at the time. Another was my senior trip to Japan for the summer. :(

I was actually surprised when I found out that British Universities don't require a foreign language like American ones do... and Americans are supposed to be the ones that are ignorant when it comes to language....

But yeah, Japanese, while "cool" isn't terribly useful unless you really dedicate yourself to it. (My university roommate did, and now is a 22 year old dude fluent in Japanese with a decent job, so it can happen.)

If you want to take a "useful" language, the following are best:

Arabic. Mandarin. Russian. German. Farsi. Latin/Ancient Greek. (These are surprisingly helpful, though I'd put them below all others and maybe take them as a 3rd language.)

Everything but German should be pretty self explanatory. For some reason many governments (US included) look for a lot of German linguists.

Spanish, while you COULD use it a lot in the US, isn't terrible useful due to there already being a huge bilingual population in the US already. So, while you could have a lot of conversations in Spanish should you take it, it probably won't help a great deal in the job hunt.

[Ularg]

Spanish, and maybe English, I think it's important to be able to communicate effectively without sounding like a complete ass-hat (and we all still have terrible grammar). Not only that but you (if you don't just farm for a living) will be writing out reports like it is no tomorrow, and while it's ok if you suck at spelling (Spell checker), a grammar and structure checker can only do so much.

Edit: To the above, I got sidetracked and forgot to put it in, but I was going to say that some of the requires testing is a little over the top, any class that just overoads with work is a wasted class.

But besides that maybe a ton of little bits in science that jsut seem less broad and way too specific and indepth to matter.

[Sinestro]

Save yourself the hassle that will be 10 years from now and learn whatever Chinese people speak.

[Lamer883]

art.

[Isin]

art.

art can't be taught

[Sinestro]

Uhhh yes it can.

[Lyken]

Think of it this way

Someone who cooks from cook books is a cook.

Someone who cooks his own recipes is a chef.

Apply it to art.

[Sinestro]

"Art" covers a huge range though.

Plenty of people are art experts yet they can't draw or paint or whatever, but you gonna tell me they don't know art?

[Lyken]

But a cook says he knows food.

[Sinestro]

And I'd argue that a cook does know food, he's just scared to get off the books.

[Isin]

"Art" covers a huge range though.

Plenty of people are art experts yet they can't draw or paint or whatever, but you gonna tell me they don't know art?

Someone who can't draw or paint or whatever but "knows art" is called a critic.

[Sinestro]

What about Art professors?

I've taken a few classes on various art styles and in two of them the teachers couldn't produce anything 'good'.

[Ularg]

What about Art professors?

I've taken a few classes on various art styles and in two of them the teachers couldn't produce anything 'good'.

It's like Music Theory, you can talk about it all day and it can only help you so much, sometimes the best results are received by just doing it. While they try to teach you a practical way about going.

[Sinestro]

It's like Music Theory, you can talk about it all day and it can only help you so much, sometimes the best results are received by just doing it. While they try to teach you a practical way about going.

All the music theory classes I've taken (and its 15+, as I'm a post degree music theory major) have had phenomenal teachers who all helped me learn instruments I never dreamed of being able to play, and understanding concepts I never knew existed.

But I can see what you're saying.

[Isin]

I hate making such an obvious reference, but Jimi Hendrix didn't go to music school. There's a lot more, too. You can't become a virtuoso just by working hard.

A lot of critics, actually, prefer unrefined art. Some people say that once you understand the mechanics you throw away some of your originality and style, and art becomes a process rather than an expression. Not to say that's always a bad thing, but it separates art into two very different categories.

[h4x2]

I'm sure math classes between 1st-5th grades could be condensed and still understood from taking 5 years to 2-3 years.

But if we want to look at higher level things, then I'd say without a doubt in my mind any Ruby programming class.

[Sinestro]

I hate making such an obvious reference, but Jimi Hendrix didn't go to music school. There's a lot more, too. You can't become a virtuoso just by working hard.

Just because there's examples of those that didn't, doesn't mean there isn't examples of those that did.

[Fiesta]

I'm sure math classes between 1st-5th grades could be condensed and still understood from taking 5 years to 2-3 years.

But if we want to look at higher level things, then I'd say without a doubt in my mind any Ruby programming class.

Blasphemy.


Ruby on rails is the new Java. Get with the times, noob.

[MostlyCasual]

Who takes classes they aren't planning on using?

Highschoolers?

Cause I had 6 solid years of pretty much nothing but Music and Teaching classes, with the first two having the general history/composition/math bullshit that every general arts degree requires.
Lolumad.

[Apostate]

In high school they made all of us take a computer science class; in California they made it mandatory to take one. Most redundant stupidity ever. Really, it would be so much more effective if we could test out of any subject, or out of school entirely.

Last semester I took a really, really bad Political Science class. The subject wasn't useless, but the teacher was so awful that I didn't learn a thing.

[BangBangPow]

Thankfully I managed to get out of having to take a foreign language by testing out of Spanish. It used to annoy me that my mother didn't know how to speak English, but now I'm glad that it saved me a grand and a half.

[MileyCyrus]

well, I'm in Biostatistics right now...which I'd normally be fine with, but back in highschool I took statistics and exempted it in college.

Only problem is that technically Biostatistics is different than statistics so ECU didn't give me credit.

ITS THE SAME MATH BUT WITH MEDICAL EXAMPLES COME ONNNN I KNOW THIS STUFF. Oh well...I'll just surf the forums during class.

[Jayschwa]

Library "science"

[Marylinn]

Who takes classes they aren't planning on using?

Highschoolers?

Cause I had 6 solid years of pretty much nothing but Music and Teaching classes, with the first two having the general history/composition/math bullshit that every general arts degree requires.
There are two different aspects to psychology. The math is very useful if you are interested in studying the brain more scientifically. However, if you are interested in becoming a therapist, most of that information is largely useless.

So to answer your question, people who study broad fields sometimes end up taking classes they don't plan on using.

[Ularg]

There are two different aspects to psychology. The math is very useful if you are interested in studying the brain more scientifically. However, if you are interested in becoming a therapist, most of that information is largely useless.

So to answer your question, people who study broad fields sometimes end up taking classes they don't plan on using.

And a lot of fields of work have on site training or just take easily learned knowledge from work experience, but yet have ridiculous requirements in the way of certs and degrees.

[ldelusionl]

Yeah man! **** the dissemination of knowledge! It sucks Bro! Screw school!

[Ularg]

Yeah man! **** the dissemination of knowledge! It sucks Bro! Screw school!

So you like how many state tests you take? And you like spending that whole year of school studying for the test, which happens to have SOME information that is actually teaching you something.

[rss]

The classes I'm taking now (JPN101, Data Structures, Calc) are all fine but, looking down the line there are some very ew classes coming up.

I did *not* like Trig, I gotta say.

How could you not like Trig?

FREE CREDITS AND GRADES.

It's the easiest maths out there. I still sometimes forget 8x7.. but that's me.
XD

[ldelusionl]

So you like how many state tests you take? And you like spending that whole year of school studying for the test, which happens to have SOME information that is actually teaching you something.

I stopped reading when you said "Studying" for state tests...

You sure you live in the United States? Can't be...

[Ularg]

I stopped reading when you said "Studying" for state tests...

You sure you live in the United States? Can't be...

Studying (IE: Classes, not actually studying).

[Marylinn]

How could you not like Trig?

FREE CREDITS AND GRADES.

It's the easiest maths out there. I still sometimes forget 8x7.. but that's me.
XD
Was never any good at math, personally. I'm actually abysmally bad at it. I'm honestly lucky I manage to balance my own checkbook sometimes. :(

[Lamer883]

i hate school.

[Megumijk]

Religious Education.

Why kids in England get this rather than say... logic and philosophy, I'll never know.

[Marylinn]

Religious Education.

Why kids in England get this rather than say... logic and philosophy, I'll never know.Doesn't religious education really fall under the same umbrella as "history?" :confused:

[Lamer883]

history can be about past events like ww 1 and 2.

[Marylinn]

history can be about past events like ww 1 and 2.
Well yes, but I pretty clearly remember covering lots of religious content in world history. Perhaps it's just not as in depth?

[Lamer883]

yea. it is just about studying the textbooks and writing any factor that corressponds.

at least it is like this here

[Megumijk]

Doesn't religious education really fall under the same umbrella as "history?" :confused:

Absolutely not.

It's a study of the practices and beliefs of various religions.

Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, Hindu and Sikhism respectively.

The only time religion is mentioned in the English history books is Henry VIII founding the Church of England and the religious persecutions caused by the monarchs that followed....and the Crusades, obviously but that's more World History than English History.

[Marylinn]

That IS really stupid. Wow.

[magnakaser]

That IS really stupid. Wow.

My major was religious studies :(

[Marylinn]

My major was religious studies :(
Geez, if you were going to get a useless degree, should have gone for something easier like psychology. :(

[Sinestro]

There are two different aspects to psychology. The math is very useful if you are interested in studying the brain more scientifically. However, if you are interested in becoming a therapist, most of that information is largely useless.

So to answer your question, people who study broad fields sometimes end up taking classes they don't plan on using.

Right. It's called your general ed requirements. Everyone has to go through them, but I've never seen a college where part of the psychology degree was Trigonometry. That just doesn't click.

Unless it was like "take 3 general math courses in scaling order" to where if you started at a high level you'd have to take only higher level math classes, but that just seems backwards.

[magnakaser]

Geez, if you were going to get a useless degree, should have gone for something easier like psychology. :(

Decent burn aside, (though to be honest, any non-science degree can fit into that mold.) it's actually a very good major for going to law school, which was the original plan. But maybe more importantly, it's what I actually enjoyed studying. Instead I ended up going to grad school (oh noez) for one of my minors.

Now start flamin' that life decision, it's even easier!

[SyKot]

wtf is wrong with learning more.

[Megumijk]

wtf is wrong with learning more.

Classes where you learn nothing are deemed worthless.

Having to attend classes for worthless subject matter is a huge waste of time. It's not something I'm looking forward to with college.

[SyKot]

Classes where you learn nothing are deemed worthless.

Having to attend classes for worthless subject matter is a huge waste of time. It's not something I'm looking forward to with college.

Ye I said that but I skip boring classes :P

[Warchamp7]

English. It's just retarded these days. Or rather the kids are.

Half the people in my Grade 12 English course didn't know when to use which forms of there/their/they're, too/to/two etc.

English should focus on spelling and grammar. Reading stuff like Shakespeare and analyzing it should be it's own course in High School.

[Marylinn]

Right. It's called your general ed requirements. Everyone has to go through them, but I've never seen a college where part of the psychology degree was Trigonometry. That just doesn't click.

Unless it was like "take 3 general math courses in scaling order" to where if you started at a high level you'd have to take only higher level math classes, but that just seems backwards.
I didn't say trigonometry in particular was part of my degree, I said there are classes involved in my degree that are worthless to me.

I already have 2 credits in calculus from AP in high school, so trigonometry was the next gen ed level math available. I don't know how you confused the two things.

[Narfle]

How far are you in your psychology education btw marylinn?

And if you need any test subjects, i wouldnt mind lending a hand, im diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and I dont really use my time that constructively anyway.

[Qwernakus]

I think i would prefer Latin over German. Though, its not pointless (I live in Denmark, we learn German or french as a third language.

[Narfle]

I agree with you so much fellow viking, i would have loved to have latin instead of german.

You can has cheezburger now.

[LolMaliken]

SyKot, the fact that i dont wanna take useless classes isnt because i dont wanna broaden my horizon, its because classes are 1500 bucks a pop + books and that **** adds up quick. im an audio major and although id say "study of the music industry" sounds like a useful class, we watched movies based around studios for 11 weeks -_-' then i had intro to audio which we went over the difference of a SM58 and a SM57 (2 mics, literally the difference is a grill on the top) and im 3 classes ahead of where i should be as pre-reqs are going and they want me to go back, even though im comin out with A's.... im in studio acoustics and they want me to go back and take intro to sound... wtfffffff!!!!! and even though i gotta take a trig class (understandable to know the math's and stuff's) but i gotta take geometry as well.... why do i need to know how to graph? anything i would do that takes graphing is programmed INTO THE SOUND BOARD.... stupid college.

[Marylinn]

How far are you in your psychology education btw marylinn?

And if you need any test subjects, i wouldnt mind lending a hand, im diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and I dont really use my time that constructively anyway.
Even though this is technically still my sophomore year, I'm done with my major once I finish my general ed. (Trig, biology, and one more science credit which I haven't picked yet. Probably astronomy.) I was fortunate enough to get a LOT of my general ed out of the way in high school via the AP program, so my freshman year was a prime time to get as many credit hours as possible towards my actual degree.

I don't want to graduate early, so I'm spending senior year on my minor, which is journalism.

[LolMaliken]

my high school i was either ditching, drunk or didnt give a ****/sleeping. i rly wish now that i payed attention and took AP classes when they were free >.<

[Kros]

Even though this is technically still my sophomore year, I'm done with my major once I finish my general ed. (Trig, biology, and one more science credit which I haven't picked yet. Probably astronomy.) I was fortunate enough to get a LOT of my general ed out of the way in high school via the AP program, so my freshman year was a prime time to get as many credit hours as possible towards my actual degree.

I don't want to graduate early, so I'm spending senior year on my minor, which is journalism.
I'm jealous. I wish my high school would've provided those kinds of options.

[Targuil]

Literature, Swedish (mandatory in Finland -.-), psychology, arts, music.

[Marylinn]

I'm jealous. I wish my high school would've provided those kinds of options.
You live in the US. It's a federal program. You just have to seek it out.

[Kros]

You live in the US. It's a federal program. You just have to seek it out.
What? I was under the impression that the school had to offer the AP classes to the students.

We had AP Bio, AP Calc (which was just calc 1), and AP English.

[Zulukas]

Honestly, I'd have to say calculus is pretty useless unless its directly related to your chosen profession. I'm training to become an electric engineer and although I'm only like 1.5 years into my college, I can only see calc being useful if your going to be a scientist and researching all the time. I had to use multivariable\vector calc in my last physics class (electricity & magnetism) and 90% of the practical stuff we learned in the class were basic formulas that didn't have any differential equations or integration. and 90% of the forumulas that we personally derived (to prove the easier formulas we already knew) was the only time we used the calculus we learned.

although... I gotta admit that I really do enjoy calculus, if I could major in it and get a respectable well paying job with it (not re-teaching it) I'd go math major, but there just isn't much demand for a math major.

[Kros]

Honestly, I'd have to say calculus is pretty useless unless its directly related to your chosen profession. I'm training to become an electric engineer and although I'm only like 1.5 years into my college, I can only see calc being useful if your going to be a scientist and researching all the time. I had to use multivariable\vector calc in my last physics class (electricity & magnetism) and 90% of the practical stuff we learned in the class were basic formulas that didn't have any differential equations or integration. and 90% of the forumulas that we personally derived (to prove the easier formulas we already knew) was the only time we used the calculus we learned.

although... I gotta admit that I really do enjoy calculus, if I could major in it and get a respectable well paying job with it (not re-teaching it) I'd go math major, but there just isn't much demand for a math major.
I can't say for sure, since I'm doing CS and not EE. But, from what I do know about EE...I'm purty sure you'll be using plenty of calc in the future.

Again, I don't know for sure.

Double major in EE and Math =P.

[RetardDrool]

Careers.

[TomKat]

As a teacher I have to answer this question a lot - "why do I need to know this?! waaah".

Sure, it's unlikely that most of my 15 year old chavs will ever need to know how to use a database or create a computer animation.

The point is, in most jobs there will be aspects you don't enjoy. Employers need you to be willing to work hard to do a good job. The only quantifiable means they have of this is your qualifications (and references, but we'll leave that). If you work hard at ALL subjects in school and perform well then it shows that you are willing to do the work you don't enjoy as much, as well as the stuff you excel in.

That's what I tell students when they ask what the point is of subjects they don't particularly enjoy.

[Jayschwa]

I'd go math major, but there just isn't much demand for a math major.
Dude, math majors are gods. With a math degree, most science and engineering careers will be open to you.

[LolMaliken]

im in geometryclass right now. quick, someone laugh at me!

[magnakaser]

In all honesty though, I think a useless class could be more defined by the professor teaching it than the actual subject matter sometimes. Even if it's some wacky elective that has no bearing on your major, if the professor makes it interesting enough for you it'll be worthwhile anyway since you'll take something out of it.

I took a sociology survey course my first year of university, and while sociology may be a bit "ehhhhh...." in and of itself, the professor was so batshit insane the class became awesome. He was like 90 years old and tenured beyond anyone's imagination so he could go off saying insane things for the entire hour and a half and no one could do ****.

Things he did:

Every class he'd stare at the board and write a bunch of random numbers on it after a few good minutes of thinking. Then he'd slap some wild thing on it that made no since like, "Distribution of wealth" and go on some anti-Bush/anti-American rant.

He threw a kid out for saying he didn't like the idea of national healthcare, after asking him, "Do you like the idea of a national healthcare system?"

One of our exam questions was, "Which event allowed Bush and his minions to start their plan to spread their influence around the world?" The answers were, "Sep. 11, The Janet Jackson nipple slip (relatively topical back when I was a college freshman...), The War of 1812, or Breakfast.

So basically, the class was beyond useless. HOWEVER, because the teacher was so ****ing nutty and was the EASIEST grader on this side of the Illuminati (another of his favorite topics.), I don't regret taking it. I got an A and laughed my ass off twice a week, I also thought this was what all sociology was (not far off) and successfully steered away from it for the remainder of my undergraduate career. Overall, I liked it.

[Marylinn]

What? I was under the impression that the school had to offer the AP classes to the students.

We had AP Bio, AP Calc (which was just calc 1), and AP English.
Some courses are based on demand, so if there is low demand in your school system, they will often defer you to a community college during normal school hours to take AP classes there. That's what I had to do, anyway. I only went to the high school 3 out of 5 days of the week, the other 2 I spent at the community college taking my AP coursework.


It does vary, but being a federal program means that the same opportunities are available to everyone. As I said, you really just have to seek them out. I personally wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to join the AP program myself, but I have always been from a somewhat underprivileged household, so if I didn't get into a good college and get grants and scholarships to go to it, I more than likely wouldn't have ever had the opportunity. :legi:

[Kros]

Some courses are based on demand, so if there is low demand in your school system, they will often defer you to a community college during normal school hours to take AP classes there. That's what I had to do, anyway. I only went to the high school 3 out of 5 days of the week, the other 2 I spent at the community college taking my AP coursework.


It does vary, but being a federal program means that the same opportunities are available to everyone. As I said, you really just have to seek them out. I personally wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to join the AP program myself, but I have always been from a somewhat underprivileged household, so if I didn't get into a good college and get grants and scholarships to go to it, I more than likely wouldn't have ever had the opportunity. :legi:
Oh well. Too late now. I'm a couple years out of high school now.

[LolMaliken]

no one laughs at me? thats actually awesome! hey marylinn pm ur FB if u have one k? i can chat via there in class

[Marylinn]

no one laughs at me? thats actually awesome! hey marylinn pm ur FB if u have one k? i can chat via there in class
I don't really have enough friends to socially network. :/

[LolMaliken]

i see how it is :/

[Reonhato]

ive forgotten 99% of what i learnt at school

english imo is the most useless. after about grade 7 you stop being taught things and just have to write longer and longer essays

[Megumijk]

As a teacher I have to answer this question a lot - "why do I need to know this?! waaah".

Sure, it's unlikely that most of my 15 year old chavs will ever need to know how to use a database or create a computer animation.

The point is, in most jobs there will be aspects you don't enjoy. Employers need you to be willing to work hard to do a good job. The only quantifiable means they have of this is your qualifications (and references, but we'll leave that). If you work hard at ALL subjects in school and perform well then it shows that you are willing to do the work you don't enjoy as much, as well as the stuff you excel in.

That's what I tell students when they ask what the point is of subjects they don't particularly enjoy.

You have my everlasting sympathy.

Anyone interested in IT will be learning/know what you have to teach already and anyone not interested in IT will be indifferent towards learning it at all...Making IT one of the most frustrating subject to teach as a result of that.

[Sinestro]

english imo is the most useless. after about grade 7 you stop being taught things and just have to write longer and longer essays

Yeah, cause you never have to write papers or anything in the real world. And anytime you do have to write about something in length it can always be completed in a paragraph.
:rolleyes:

[BobLoblaw]

pharmacy marketing and management...it's code for they assign us groups and 2 projects and my team is too retarded to successfully complete the projects so I do them all myself.

[Marylinn]

ive forgotten 99% of what i learnt at school

english imo is the most useless. after about grade 7 you stop being taught things and just have to write longer and longer essays
This guy has got to be trolling us.

The irony is just too strong.

[Sauron`]

Russian Literature.

[noodle0117]

Career planning and personal development classes.
Good for the first half year, but then they repeat everything over and over again.

Whats so bad about TRIGONOMETRY?
http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/images/content/samples/maths/trigonometry1.jpg
It's pretty easy once u grab the basic concept.

[AgainstAll]

geometry,geography(i pretty much hate those two), ukrainian(i hope the teacher magically dissapears, she is so annoying), biology(i don't really dislike it, it is just that i don't plan anything related with it in my life after school, so it is really like a placeholder)

IT - our teacher is batshit bad, he doesn't know you spell setup with p, he doesn't know what to do with a simple minigame that floods your screen, he doesn't know of the align your icons in the form of penis script - etc...
he even turns off the internet if you finally get to the pcs after writing 3-4 pages of text about what to do with ms word

sure getting grades there is easy - every test has a text file with answers to it in the pc but it is rather useless

[OTRobin]

java GUI

literally did every assignment by searching google when i didn't know how to use a class, first page was always the online java tutorial

[Fozzle]

I can't say for sure, since I'm doing CS and not EE. But, from what I do know about EE...I'm purty sure you'll be using plenty of calc in the future.

Again, I don't know for sure.

Double major in EE and Math =P.

That would be the most terrible 4+ years of your life.

[Juular]

World Religions. I hate religion, why do I have to learn about it?

EDIT: i took this class 5 semesters ago. It was the worst class ever.

[OTRobin]

math is fine, proofs are a ***** but they beat writing papers by a mile

[OTBatman]

i have a d in geometry should i be concerned that i sleep in that class

main reason is because the teach is trying something *new* so instead of collecting homework daily for points, giving me a reason to do the homework every day, she assigns us 20-30 assignments or so over a course of time, then gives us a test that has 5 answers, spreaded among the assignments, and we should be able to find them easy, you know, if you did them all knowing that 90 percent of it would be useless

[Zulukas]

I can't say for sure, since I'm doing CS and not EE. But, from what I do know about EE...I'm purty sure you'll be using plenty of calc in the future.

Again, I don't know for sure.

Double major in EE and Math =P.

Yeah, that's probably true, 60% of the people that I have engineering-oriented courses with are going civil (this is a rough guesstimate), and a buddy of mine said his brother in law is a CE and said he never uses calc. From what I understand is that if they need to know something, they look it up in a manual or online, and very rarely actually derive something. And I'm not totally decided on EE'ing either, as I said, I'm only 1.5 years into my college, and a lot may change before then :)

and no thanks to double majoring haha, unless it would significantly improve my chances of getting a higher paying job.

[OTRobin]

geometry was p boring in high school at the end of the year i actually sat at a table in the back with a friend facing away from the rest of class

[Happy_Robot]

i learned more useful skills in prison then in school

[Tairashi]

i learned more useful skills in prison then in school

were you put in prison for making nymphora a sex object?