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Started thinking about this in the shower this morning, for some god-unknown reason. What was your most worthless class you took in high school or college? The one you've never done anything with at any point in life, professionally or socially? The one you haven't even gotten a good story out of?
 
Sex Ed- already knew everything I needed to know...the class was repetitive but the visuals were real nice ;D
 
Geology, followed by Old English Lit... nothing is more of a waste of time than Sir Flippin Gawain and the Green Knight
 
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slappy4428 said:
Geology, followed by Old English Lit... nothing is more of a waste of time than Sir Flippin Gawain and the Green Knight

Bite thy tongue!


My most worthless class had to be Intro to Criminal Justice.
 
Anything involving math or science... For me those classes involved, reading, memorizing, taking the tests and forgetting...
 
I took the easiest math classes they allowed in college and probably struggled more than any other course I took. Science I could do, I just hated it.

Granted, I had friends who could ace a Calculus class without thinking about it, but they couldn't string a sentence together to save their lives... Most of them are making a lot more money than we are... ;D
 
Mizzougrad96 said:
I took the easiest math classes they allowed in college and probably struggled more than any other course I took. Science I could do, I just hated it.

Granted, I had friends who could ace a Calculus class without thinking about it, but they couldn't string a sentence together to save their lives... Most of them are making a lot more money than we are... ;D

Who isn't?
 
Thankfully, LSU's journalism program only required you to take two math classes -- and philosophy counted as one of them. After a semester of college algebra, I was heading toward philosophy and ended up in a probabilities class. Had I paid more attention, I could've been a helluva poker player. The teacher always used poker and card combinations as examples.

The Good Doctor said:
Astronomy. All math, no fun. I dropped it.

I lucked out on that one. Had a professor who must have been close to retirement, because all he did was write notes on the board and base his tests off that. I finished the final in 15 minutes -- and that was because I checked my work twice. One of the questions was, I **** you not, "what is the largest planet?"
 
Flash said:
Computer programming.

A computer course I took my freshman year. The only thing it did was get me up at 7:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday for 15 weeks.
 
1) Accounting for Hotels
2) Effective Listening

In retrospect, I should have take more intellectually challenging courses my senior year of college.
 
Personal and Family Finance. I was shopping for easy electives my senior year when my advisor wouldn't let me take any more Political Science. It was a class mainly for home-ec majors and taught such things as balancing a checkbook and filling out the 1040 short form.
 
Art History.

The teacher had a database with about 400 questions for each test, and she'd been using it for about 15 years. There were 100 questions on each test, so you didn't have to collect very many old tests to have virtually every single question that could possible come up.

We figured this out, memorized the answers to every question, never went to class except test days, and I got an A. It was awesome -- everyone on campus knew about it. The first 50 questions would "require" a picture on a projector, so theoretically you couldn't be done before she was done showing you those pictures. People would be completely finished, handed in and gone by No. 25, though. Just awesome, and totally useless.


Golf

Also useless, especially since I didn't follow up learning how to play with actually playing often enough to have retained any of the lessons I learned.


I took a Personal Finance class, too. It could have been really useful — how to get insurance, what different kinds were and protected, how to invest, basics about investing ... just a lot of general life advice. The damn class was at 8 a.m. though, so I only went about once every two weeks.


I also took a Shakespeare class that was at 8 a.m. We got credit for going, so you had to go, but you could show up any time during the hour and get credit. Sure it was humbling, but I honestly showed up with five minutes to go on several occasions. Once I walked in as everyone else was leaving. Got a B.

I don't like mornings, by the way.
 

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