Science
SmoodCroozn
Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">It rapes me.</div>I need a science class for college.
I've looked at a couple such as astronomy and biology and I took... anatomy. Learning about the body is pretty useful right?
In class, there's people all juiced up for it. "I'm going to be a surgeon!", "I'm going to nurse!", and so on. I'm here thinking let's get it over with.
The class is just... memorization. You've got your cubivoids, columnars, coronus, blah, blah, blah. Wow, I can't stay awake for 4 hours! Even if there is a hot chick.
Class starts at 8am... which does not go well with my NS-oriented biological clock I made in high school.
It's just... boringly lethal.
I guess the only science I can lean on is astronomy and that's because it's somewhat interesting (space = NS). You got stars that explode and you think about millions of years, universe that's infinite... it's wooo. But anatomy just... cells, shapes of cells, ridiculous names, dozens of terms to memorize, yuck.
So right now, I'm on the borderline of dropping the class. Should I continue with this 4 hours, 8am, 5weeks, not to mention traffic as hell, everyday deathmarch... or drop this and get a job for the summer?
I've looked at a couple such as astronomy and biology and I took... anatomy. Learning about the body is pretty useful right?
In class, there's people all juiced up for it. "I'm going to be a surgeon!", "I'm going to nurse!", and so on. I'm here thinking let's get it over with.
The class is just... memorization. You've got your cubivoids, columnars, coronus, blah, blah, blah. Wow, I can't stay awake for 4 hours! Even if there is a hot chick.
Class starts at 8am... which does not go well with my NS-oriented biological clock I made in high school.
It's just... boringly lethal.
I guess the only science I can lean on is astronomy and that's because it's somewhat interesting (space = NS). You got stars that explode and you think about millions of years, universe that's infinite... it's wooo. But anatomy just... cells, shapes of cells, ridiculous names, dozens of terms to memorize, yuck.
So right now, I'm on the borderline of dropping the class. Should I continue with this 4 hours, 8am, 5weeks, not to mention traffic as hell, everyday deathmarch... or drop this and get a job for the summer?
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seriously though why take a class if u dont like it? I took Chemistry in college and it just bored me senseless to the point where i just couldn't learn anything and i failed. If its boring you drop it and pick a class your genna enjoy. You'll get the best grades possible if the course is interesting and enjoyable.
You took something you aren't interrested in?
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I don't know what school is like in your neck of the woods, but it's not uncommon to have to take classes you're not interested in <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
I took entomology for a science requirement once. it was interesting, but even that was harder than I expected...
my advice is take something environmental science related. that stuff seems easier than most sciences. but maybe that's just because I'm actually quasi interested in it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
I don't want to endure this for a class that I don't like, or rather actively hate, when I have a good chance at failing...
The only other class that's open is yoga.
<img src="http://www.currybear.com/nucleus/media/1/20061006-200px-Streetfighter_dhalsim_illust.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />?
Be sure you don't mind lots of complicated mathematics.
Yoga, well a new study suggests that one hour of Yoga works well against depression. Maybe Yoga classes could be useful if you ever got depressed.
<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=71719" target="_blank">Link to news post about study</a>
On a side note: I kinda feel sorry for everyone who takes no courses in hard sciences. Since they will have no clue as how things actually work. I am currently in my last year of studying to become an Aerospace Engineer. Yes, it has been hard; but now I know how things work and have a good understanding of how they work.
With chemistry it went sort of the opposite way, I started out thinking it was so weird compared to math and other subjects, but before the end of my first course I started to love it, taking the next course.
After having a year of soft sciences at university (sociology/psychology) I really want to change to cell biology next semester. I really missed the hard sciences this year. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
But the interesting thing is that there is a shortage of doctors/nurses, at least in California, so you could get a good job in the field.
I don't know what it is...
It's so boring.
The teacher yaks all day and I'm staring at him, amazed by how fast he whirls an endless amount of terms. One minute we are learning about the 206 bones, next, cells.
I enjoyed what you called the soft-sciences. Sociology in particular was great. Speech was awesome. These classes were down-to-earth, as you could see it in everyday life.
But these sciences... I can't possibly imagine enjoying them.
I've been attracted to creativity as long as I've been a gamer. I like having the freedom, to doing your own thing. Even if I try to get this class down, it just lacks... the "fun" to keep me interested. Well, I'm not saying college is about fun, well maybe it is, but... if I can't stay awake, then I probably won't do well.
What science is practical? Physics sound interesting.
Other areas of medicine and biology are more likely to be about relations and processes, anatomy seems to be all about learning names and structures.
That, imo, is what makes physics so interesting and exciting. Not everything is how we (want to) see it.
I dual majored in chem and bio so trust me I know what I'm talking about <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
That, imo, is what makes physics so interesting and exciting. Not everything is how we (want to) see it.
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Tanke's just showing off cause he's a quantum rocket scientist.
As for my suggestions? Check to see if your college alows CS to fill the requirement, Mine did.
I actualy never would have had to take a hard science if I didn't want to. I took one class though and that was Relativity for non majors.
One of the best classes I ever had. The prof tought Relativity and Quantum Mechanics for both majors and non majors. He was able to actualy explain the principles and how everythign worked with out the students havign a lick of knowledge in Physics.
I don't know what kind of school you go to but my school was pretty big(20,000+) so there were tons of oddball courses that were interesting. I filled once of my science courses with a class called "Evolution: from Comos to Humanity" and we basically studied evolution related everything in a progression: the evolution cycle of stars to geology to single celled organisms to botany to invertibrates to mammals to humans. Some of it was boring but most of it was neat.
I filled another science requirement with a class called "Natural Disasters". In practice it was more a social studies course but there was the science behind earthquakes and hurricanes and mudslides and all that involved.
So basically look through your course catalouge, and definately choose interesting classes over easy classes unless you think you're all ready overloaded for the semester.
Edit: reread the OP and stick with the class if you can think you can pass it. But if it's just going to drag down your other classes drop it.