A friend is struggling through a tough class. What was your least favorite class? Why?

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Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

When I was in school, a language was required for 3 years. I took German and was lost, even after 2 years. My teacher knew that I wasn't going to progress, so he told me to behave and read comic books, library books, etc during class. As long as I didn't disrupt class, he'd pass me with a C. I didn't have to participate in class, take any tests or finals.

PJ Stein Profile
PJ Stein answered

Biology. I don't know why but I always seemed to get D's in that class, I was an A/B student without even trying and that class killed me the two times I had to take it. (Once in junior high, and once in high school.) I am blaming having it first period both times. Who wants to disect critters at 7:30 in the morning?

John Doe Profile
John Doe answered

My least favorite class was English...I was apparently good at it...writing essays, papers and the like....but I really disliked that class.

otis campbell Profile
otis campbell answered

Me and another guy got kicked out of chemistry in college we were just mixing all sorts of stuff together and fumigated the entire building. We had to see the dean for that stunt

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EBBe lau
EBBe lau commented
Nice. Sounds like the time my brother almost caught the house on fire with hot oil, water, and a newspaper. My dad was mad because the top story got burnt off the page.
Nicole Ashley Profile
Nicole Ashley answered

Math and Biology. Hard to grasp the concepts of it and solve things. I literally studied eight hours for each quiz and still barely passed

EBBe lau Profile
EBBe lau answered

SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!! I know literally nothing about History and Geography (I failed my two latest tests and ended up with a C- in that class. Better rip up that report card.) My teacher is very nice, but the tests he gives us are...well, crap! And the study guides have NOTHING to do with the quiz. Last quarter started yesterday, hope he'll go easy on us.

Levi F. Profile
Levi F. answered

Physics was probably my worst. Second would be calculus. I've never been a math/science person. I relished finally getting to college and getting to take classes in subjects I was interested in and good at.

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Levi F.
Levi F. commented
I excelled in other subjects. I didn't need to have an A-plus in physics if I was applying to studying English and Linguistics. The admissions board knew that--and it is not as if I failed these math and science classes, I simply did not do as well in them as I did in English, history, and Latin--the subjects that I knew I would be studying in college. I had know way of knowing that I'd be good in Advanced Syntactic Theory in college back in high school, since that's nothing I studied in high school, and yet I am good at it.
Levi F.
Levi F. commented
College is also different in that you are permitted to drop a class within the first week or so of taking it if you discover it's not to your liking. For example, I did enroll in a philosophy of language class, only to realize that it wasn't quite right for me, therefore I was able to drop it without it appearing as a stain on my transcript. High school affords no such luxury. High school simply has a base set of subjects that everyone must study--high school is the time to discover what it is that you are good at and what it is you want to study in-depth in college.
Megan goodgirl Profile
Megan goodgirl answered

Math I hate it and English was hard and History or some call it Social Studies. All subjects I did not like. I liked spelling . It was my favorite.

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Epic poetry.

For example:

"Classical poetic forms took many shapes, but the one most commonly associated with epic poetry is dactylic hexameter. Infamous works such as the Aeneid, when reverted to their dead language counterparts, fit around this form.  Take the first line of Virgil’s seminal work, for instance:

Arma virumque cano, troiae qui primus ab oris*

[*translation: ‘I sing of arms and the man, who first from Troy…’]

While not strict Dactylic Hexameter, it fulfills the loose requirements of the poetic form: Two dactyls, two spondees, a dactyl, and a spondee."

https://newmediamayhem.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/arma-virumque-cano-how-unconscious-recognition-of-a-poetic-form-turned-benedict-cumberbatch-into-an-internet-meme/

I don' know if this link will cause any problems.

The "why" is obvious.

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Levi F.
Levi F. commented
As much as enjoy studying Classics and languages in general, I simply cannot get excited about metrics in poetry. People start talking about dactyls and spondees and caesurae and my mind begins to fall asleep.

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