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The worst class you've ever taken

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Elife
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Post your worst so we can all avoid.


I'm trying to do an assignment for Eng 320 right now (The History of the English Language) and I think I'd rather cut off my writing hand than finish 10 questions like this (the blanks are special archaic characters that NS does not support):

1. (3 points) For each set, identify all the grammatical forms and then discuss the
morphological changes from Old English to Middle English. Be sure to note the dialect
distribution of the forms, where relevant.
 
a. OE hī wrītað
 ME thai wrītes, thai wrīte(n), hī wrīteth
 
b. OE hēo wrīteð
 ME schō wrītes, schē wrīteth/writes, he wrīteth
 
c. OE bōc/bēc, nama/naman, land/land, cealf/cealfru
 ME book/bookes, name/names, namen, land/landes, calf/calvren, calvres
 
d.   OE se hǣþena mann, sēo hǣþene hlæfdige, þæt hǣþene bearn
 ME the hethen man, the hethen lady, the hethen bairn
Feb 10 2009 2:32PM
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Alexander_Keith
Posts: 3204 - Karma: 25
I find languages fascinating. I find what you're doing fascinating.. Its so fucking anglo-saxon its awesome. Script like this is what the original Beowulf would have been written in. Its awesome to think that this is english in its purest form, before the introduction of Norman and the influence it had.
Feb 10 2009 2:36PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
Physics this year. The teacher has no idea what the fuck he is doing and does problems that are in the examples for the books. I currently have a 47...WOO!
Feb 10 2009 2:39PM
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TechnoPotamus
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Derivates and Financial securities. i currently have a 65. sick.
Feb 10 2009 2:42PM
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Elife
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 44
for sure man... when I started this class (4 months ago) I was stunned by how much our language had changed and was stoked when I realized i could speak bits and pieces of old english but when you start conjugating verbs in old english and analyzing phonetic changes (involving translations into the phonetic alphabet) based one historical circumstance you kinda want to die
Feb 10 2009 2:44PM
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SteezethePirate
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Amen, Science is supposed to be remotely interesting, at least in the eyes of some, now this is just a fucking math class...no thanks.
Feb 10 2009 2:44PM
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Elife
Posts: 2829 - Karma: 44
purest form? it is so close to Old High German and Proto-Indo European that it is tricky to say what Old English is precisely. Then you have the Danes around the 900s and later the Normans as you identified, so our language is such an amalgamation it is oxymoronic to call it pure.
Feb 10 2009 2:47PM
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JockinJLoads
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agreed...fuck physics

ill do organic chemistry all day, but physics can suck one
Feb 10 2009 2:48PM
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steezeaholic.
Posts: 894 - Karma: 39
latin! omg it is terrible. i will never understand the sentence structure.
Feb 10 2009 4:06PM
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uh_lis_uh
Posts: 609 - Karma: 16
avoid:
1. Physics
2. Chem
3. Art History

take:
1. Ethics
2. Sociology (if at uvm, Deviance and Identity with Eleanor Miller)
3. Creative Writing
Feb 10 2009 4:11PM
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seniortiss
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high school religion is fucking retarded
Feb 10 2009 4:13PM
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andrew.
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amen.  i also have an economics class thats taught by my fucking athletic director.  its such a fucking joke and he doesnt know the first thing about ANYTHING.  pisses me off so much
Feb 10 2009 4:15PM
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cannabisshane
Posts: 178 - Karma: 20
 Ceramics I hated it, I like art but not that kind with clay.
Feb 10 2009 4:22PM
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General_Ripper
Posts: 3327 - Karma: 189
I have a differential equations, and mechanics of solids exam on monday......I would trade with any of you
Feb 10 2009 4:22PM
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Sno.
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Classes that don't invoke thought. English 101, for example.
Feb 10 2009 4:29PM
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Alexander_Keith
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Yeah thats certainly a good point. English is so unique in that its truly such a melting pot of ancient and medievial dialects with a few hundred years evolution and standardization. Most others are so traceable to German, Latin, Slavic or Roma/ Muslim languages that a speaker of one language within a family usually has little problem picking up another in the same vein.
Not so much for good old Engrish.
Although i can also see where aspects of memorization and conjugation in Old English could make you wanna swallow your tongue.

Feb 10 2009 4:31PM
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SARTRON
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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION


so boring...
Feb 10 2009 4:31PM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
OBHR 2P91. Straight up worst class, but it wasn't because of the content as much as the prof. Profs make or break the class.
Feb 10 2009 4:33PM
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Blurst
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civics and careers... they make us take it and its just stupid
Feb 10 2009 4:37PM
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Sno.
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organizational behavior?

What kind of assignments did you have?

Feb 10 2009 4:42PM
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Hannah.
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principals of applied microeconomics but that was mostly because my prof was the worst ever
Feb 10 2009 4:46PM
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Cataclyzm
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Women studies! awful! I had a choice between that or macro economics so it seemed like an obvious choice.
It was like being at a slumber party and they would start hating on their boyfriends and ask my opinion (19 girls and me)...the topper was when the prof demonstrated how to put a condom on....using her cell phone and then licked it to see if it really tasted like oranges.
Feb 10 2009 4:55PM
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Sno.
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wow, I wish I'd have taken THAT women studies--

the class i took was just full of book reading with titles like "the red tent" and yes, that is a reference to menstrual cycles.

Feb 10 2009 4:58PM
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no_steeze
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chem
every day i want to kill myself in that class
Feb 10 2009 4:58PM
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Cataclyzm
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snobunny, if i saw that book in the syllabus the first day of class, i would have dropped it IMMEDIATELY haha
Feb 10 2009 5:11PM
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KingTaco
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spanish.
Feb 10 2009 5:41PM
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0123456789
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art history.


so shitty/boring.
Feb 10 2009 5:43PM
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49566738265
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Electrical Engineering classes are like receiving buttsex from an elephant.
Feb 10 2009 5:52PM
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JacheOReally
Posts: 3597 - Karma: 253

SPANISH IS SO BORING!

Feb 10 2009 5:53PM
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skier_boy26
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i took a sociology of sexuality class. I thought it would be all easy and lame and shit. Well, the reading was the MOST BORING DRIBBLE SHIT and the tests were so hard for the level of class that I just got super pissed and hated it.
I enjoyed calculus more.
Either than that, the classes I have taken in high school and college have been pretty good to just fan-fuckin-tastic. Except one weird personality class for high school requirement that was... odd. Not nearly as bad as sociology of bullshit.
Feb 10 2009 5:56PM
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toominator
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Politics of the Middle East

The lecturer was a class a d-bag
Feb 10 2009 5:57PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Here's the classes I took in college that sucked ballz:

History of Black Theology (I'm white and had to go to a bunch of black churches. Talk about awkward.)

Tai Chi

Information Literacy - basically a how to use the library class that was required for every student to graduate. What a waste of time.

Spanish 101

Managerial Economics 675 - teacher was suuuuuper smart...probably one of the smartest people I've ever met so he expected a lot from everyone.

Health Studies - another required class that was a waste of time.

I think that should cover all of the BS classes.
Feb 10 2009 6:03PM
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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Spanish 3 I've gotten straight Cs in that class. It makes my brain explode!! 
Feb 10 2009 6:42PM
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phila
Posts: 285 - Karma: 10

careers is the biggest waste of time:(

i just sit there and play games on my ipod  or sleep. my teacher is a 4 foot tall liver spotted lesbain,

Feb 10 2009 8:18PM
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Drew.C
Posts: 1757 - Karma: 39

frshman health. everything is so self explanitory. like everything comes back to exercising, drug free, and eating healthy. its a waste of time and i dont see why i have to take it

Feb 10 2009 8:22PM
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Scott~
Posts: 2551 - Karma: 49
Avoid:
1. Ethics
2. Sociology
3. Creative Writing
Take:
1.Chem
2. MOAR Chem
3. ^

Feb 10 2009 8:23PM
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Scott~
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Noted, although the chances of me taking any kind of sociology to being with were pretty fucking low heh~
Feb 10 2009 8:24PM
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Nick1867
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Spanish Fucking blows if only those damn border hoppers would stay on their own side i wouldnt have to worry and this Spanish Shit.  Make everyone learn English
Feb 10 2009 8:58PM
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atsmith
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Organic chemistry Bio chem and microbilology.  Worst classes of all time.  I thought that my brain was melting while I was in class.  It was awful.
Feb 10 2009 8:58PM
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PBRasap
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AMEN.
Feb 10 2009 9:02PM
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Scott~
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If you didnt like whichever class came first then why the fuck did you take the others lol?~ Med school I take it? Have fun rofl~
Feb 10 2009 9:10PM
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michelle
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I took a three hour class that combined math and english

What a horrible combination to be stuck in for three hours at 9am
Feb 10 2009 9:16PM
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Detroit_Steeze
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uhh spanish, i couldnt pay attention it was rotting my brain out,just dropped out last semester to switch to wood tech!Ya bitches!
Feb 10 2009 9:21PM
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Malcolm
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a class isnt boring, its the teacher. i find that teachers who are willing to admit their mistakes, have a sence of humour and speak good can make the most boring class fun
Feb 10 2009 9:23PM
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Pee_and_Ski
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precalc if i miss one problem on the home work i get half credit, the worst part is that my teacher skis but she sucks it boggels my mind
Feb 10 2009 9:37PM
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Funnel
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Spanish.  My teacher is a dumbshit.  From Mexico and I can't understand her high pitched voice.  Fucking hate it so much.
Feb 10 2009 9:41PM
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[MEGAMO]
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logic and critical thinking, biggest most trivial waste of time ever
Feb 10 2009 9:41PM
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alaskakid
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best or second best class i've taken so far...so your wrong.

its your teacher then
Feb 10 2009 9:41PM
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FUUUCK
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Career studies and civics by far
Feb 10 2009 9:57PM
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Elijah.
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It always depends on your teacher, not essentially the subject!
One bad teacher can ruin a persons educational experience in a great subject.
Avoid!
P-chem


Feb 10 2009 9:59PM
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Nicholas.
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english composition, worst teacher i have EVER had, and it was in my first year of college.

she had no fucking idea what she was doing, she made us write the most assanine shit. one week i had to write a 5 page paper on the dangers of peanut butter or buying an island, then the next week a 5 pager on on some tarot card bullshit. dumbest shit i have ever seen.

i stopped going.
Feb 10 2009 9:59PM
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