Memory lane: the most worthless course you took in college
This thread is to be used to describe the lamest class you took in college, and the reasons it was lame.
Such classes are sometimes taken because you merely needed 3 credits to become a junior, and the class was offered at a convenient time.
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Hate to admit it but the worse course was the entire curriculum at Hamline Law School. I got the degree but it's worthless. Contrary to what you may hear or read, there is a huge glut of people with law degrees out there. Many of those people are terribly under employed. And I am one of them, sad to say.
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Took Fortran and Cobol programming. Two separate courses. Did teach me how to type punchcards though. That was back in 1972 and 1973.
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Hmmm. I majored in architecture. Given my life now, about 16 years later, I'd say the most pointless thing I did at school was... anything related to architecture.
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I've got two, a Stats in Politics class when I was an undergrad, which was required for my liberal arts concentration. I went the first day, the review class before the midterm and the review class before the final and got a B (along with a note from the teacher saying I missed out on an A because I had no class participation). The other was an ethics class which was taught by a 90 yr old professor whose advice was "If you must embezzle, remember that you must steal enough so that after you pay for a great defense, pay restitution, and do jail time you still have enough to live on comfortably." I think about that every time I hear of the Michael Milkens and Bernie Madoffs of the world.
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While I took my share of computer classes in languages (BASIC, Fortran, etc) that became obsolete before I had the chance to use them, I believe the class on "Politics in Brazil" was the worst.
As hinted above, I took it largely because it was offered at a convenient time and I needed three (3) additional credits in order to qualify for Junior level housing in the fall, because I had Withdrawn from a class that that was too hard.
So, while working full time during the day, I took said class in the evenings one summer. Upon completing the class, I still knew nothing about Politics in Brazil, but I did know all about my professors life in Brazil and how she broke up with husband and recently moved to the states, and now had to work as a underpaid Adjunct in order make ends meet. Yada, yada, yada.
The class did successfully make me a Junior though. I'm pretty sure that everyone who took the class got a B.
I'm also quite sure that whatever subject my paper was on, it was composed while using Wordperfect 5.1
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Ah, those old college days - sprinting thru Washington Square Park and pushing past the unwashed denizens mumbling incoherently, the free lance pharmaceutical sales reps and the waft of pot in the air. Sometimes in the 70s it was hard to distinguish classroom from the Park. But now every time I stroll by Zucotti Park I have a flashback.
The most USELESS courses: Astronomy (given at 11AM), Econometrics (as if any computer model would predict today's economy) and Business Ethics.
Funny, most of the professors I had the pleasure to observe were not looking to vent but to score.
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My courses in Baudelaire, Mallarme and other French poets, and in Medieval European Literature, were torture then and useless now.
My freshman calculus course, taught at 8 am by teaching assistants from China whose English was incomprehensible because of their very heavy accents, were the very best sleep aid I've ever taken. Otherwise, however, they were a complete waste of time.
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In my university there was a particular Teachers Assistant/Graduate Assistant who would extend an offer of good grades in exchange for sex. Most of my female friends would manage to get good grades from him by acting as if they would put out, without ever actually doing so.Similarly, a horndog friend of mine sought out a TA position with a professor known to fail students under the belief he could give attractive females good grades. Unfortunately for him, the prof merely had him do research, not grading.
I, meanwhile, had to study.
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2 words: Interpretative Dance
("Now lay down on the floor and imagine you're a stream...")
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I had Interpretative Dance in high school. There was a lot of time Being a Tree, and traveling across the room leading with various body parts. Sometimes it was a nice break from weight training when I needed a PE credit though.
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Two.
Human Sexuality -- turns out it isn't an anthropology class but a bio class that just makes you memorize every gland in the reproductive system. Worthless for me. I failed.
Female Crime Lit -- I needed another 3 credits in English and took it. It was reading trashy crime lit featuring women detectives. It was like riding a subway train for a semester - they were so trashy and ridiculous.
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I had to take a class called Letters 101 as part of my undergrad requirements. To this day I have no idea what the class was about. Every week we talked about something different and were graded on 1 paper we wrote about anything we wanted. There was no textbook and topics ranged from the history of Mathematics to the construction of the London underground. I think it was just a class offered so a tenured professor can say he's still teaching. The 3K would have been better spend flushing it down the toilet one bill at a time.
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You have got me thinking - I would love to hear about people's BEST Brooklyn story (good, bad, weird, etc.). Just got back from hobnobbing with the other wizards (as a lowly member of the Lollipop Guild I was allowed to attend) and one of them is relocating to Brooklyn. I have a few of my fave stories but would love to hear others. Got any????
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xlizellx said:
Two.Human Sexuality -- turns out it isn't an anthropology class but a bio class that just makes you memorize every gland in the reproductive system. Worthless for me. I failed.
Female Crime Lit -- I needed another 3 credits in English and took it. It was reading trashy crime lit featuring women detectives. It was like riding a subway train for a semester - they were so trashy and ridiculous.
Several years ago, I had a air headed co-worker who stated that she barely passed a class in college because she had registered for a class on Astronomy, thinking she had registered for a class on Astrology.
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