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Classes are Crap.

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Steve19;1567953; said:
Worst: Introductory calculus in the Engineering Faculty at Ohio State. Chinese lecturer who could not be understood, even in one-on-one conversations.

Best: Roger Blackwell Marketing 650 (Introductory course) and Consumer Behavior (I think it was BA750). Still using what he taught 30 years later.
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I, too, took Blackwell's Marketing 650 class. Never cared much for marketing in general but he made it interesting and informative.

Best: Philosophy, Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Linguistics, Accounting, Calculus, Theater, Computer Science

Worst: Physics, Chemistry (can't believe I took 6 quarters of that shit)
 
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Favorite: Sport Law, Sport Physics, English classes,

Hardest: Probably my Kinesiology 360 class right now (but it's also some cool stuff). Geography (GEC) was the most ridiculous class ever. The prof was a BITCH too. Stats 130 was a bitch and so was my business Math

Easiest: Either Table Tennis, Tae Kwon Doe, or Tennis
 
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Hardest classes I've taken:

Math 415. Summama Bitch.

Mechanical Engineering 500

Math 254

Chemistry 125

Ugh. Just Ugh. Thank god I'm almost done with my civil engineering degree. 600 and 700 level courses are alot easier (despite the fact that doesn't make sense).
 
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Steve19;1567953; said:
Worst: Introductory calculus in the Engineering Faculty at Ohio State. Chinese lecturer who could not be understood, even in one-on-one conversations.
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Was his name Wah Chu Sei? :biggrin: <-- appropriate emoticon

I had an Indian (not Native American, but from India) teacher for Calculus II about 10 years ago. Fuck. I thought I walked right into a 7-11 or got into a NYC cab. At least HPU gave him a reserved flying carpet spot...
 
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Favorites: CSE 651 - Network Security, CSE 551 - information security, Biology xxx - Anthropology
- CSE651 is a really cool class if your interested in encryption methods and so forth. Anthro was just interesting and easy as well.

Hardest: CSE 625 - Finite Automata/Formal Languages, Math 153 - Calc, CSE 541 - Numerical Methods
- Math 153 kicked my ass like no other class before it. It demoralized me for that entire year. CSE 541 was basically a calculus class but the problems had to be implemented using c/c++. CSE 625 is just fucked up.

Easiest: Chemistry 100 - Chemistry and Society, Music 252 - History of Rock and Roll
- All GPA boosters. I saw quite a few football players in Music 252.
 
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Merih;1567972; said:
Hardest classes I've taken:

Math 415. Summama Bitch.

Mechanical Engineering 500

Math 254

Chemistry 125

Ugh. Just Ugh. Thank god I'm almost done with my civil engineering degree. 600 and 700 level courses are alot easier (despite the fact that doesn't make sense).
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I remember 415, 254 and 125 fondly. :wink2:

(they were tough in the 80s, too)
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1567974; said:
Was his name Wah Chu Sei? :biggrin: <-- appropriate emoticon
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:lol:

Reminds me of Byung Yung Lao, a calculus TA back in my OSU days. Had him my first quarter there and couldn't understand a fucking thing he said, at first - I grew up in rural Ohio, for crying out loud.

Ended up with him again in Spring quarter and became the unofficial translator, since I was only one in the class who could understand him. He really wasn't a bad TA, but the English thing was a problem.
 
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Jake;1568006; said:
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Reminds me of Byung Yung Lao, a calculus TA back in my OSU days. Had him my first quarter there and couldn't understand a [censored]ing thing he said, at first - I grew up in rural Ohio, for crying out loud.

Ended up with him again in Spring quarter and became the unofficial translator, since I was only one in the class who could understand him. He really wasn't a bad TA, but the English thing was a problem.
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I had trouble understanding every one of my T.A's in math classes. They knew their stuff but didn't know how to convey it very well.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1567974; said:
Was his name Wah Chu Sei? :biggrin: <-- appropriate emoticon

I had an Indian (not Native American, but from India) teacher for Calculus II about 10 years ago. [censored]. I thought I walked right into a 7-11 or got into a NYC cab. At least HPU gave him a reserved flying carpet spot...
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Good one. :biggrin:

Here's one of these football player stories you hear about (and I believe it to be true). Dave Foley was a couple years ahead of me in the College of Engineering (i.e. I was never in the specific IE class with him), however, the story goes as follows...

The Indian (not Native American, but from India) instructor goes..."now we are going to learn about Fault Tree Analysis"; however, it comes out as Poult Tree Analysis. Foley says out loud "Why the &%$*@ are we going to study chickens?" The class breaks up laughing. :slappy:

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David Foley
Academic All-American
1966-1967-1968
 
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He was a nice man but his accent was terrible.

Me: Could you please explain that again. I don't understand.
Him: You no understanding?
Me: Yes.
Him: Oh! Good! Good for you well done! Next question?
Me: Sorry but I don't understand.
Him: You understand, now I go to next question.
Me: But I no understand.
Him: Oh! Why you not say that? Wasting our time! (speaking slowly, trying to hit the syllables) Itin volving our bitrary constat. You see?
Me: Our what?
Him: Not what! Please listen! Our bitrary constat!
Me: What is a bitrary constat?
Him: It can be annthing, annthing atall.
Friend: Don't worry, dude, I can explain it after class. You got some reefer?
Him: You no understanding now?
Me: No, it's okay.
Him: Why you no understanding? Can be annthing? You no understanding annthing? Annthing! Annthing at all!
Me (to friend): Did you smoke with this dude before class? (everyone nearby overhears and laughs)
Him: Not funny. Not funny. He not stupid, can be annthing? OK? OK now?

It was way too much for me. I went over to the Oval and checked out the local talent and moved over to Fisher College of Business.
 
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Favorite Classes:

HIST 385 - History of Russia
HIST 325 - History of Modern China

Both taught by Dr. Alexander Pantsov at Capital University. He was always enthusiastic about teaching, and I especially valued learning about the Soviet Union and communism from somebody who had to live through it.
 
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Steve19;1567953; said:
Worst: Introductory calculus in the Engineering Faculty at Ohio State. Chinese lecturer who could not be understood, even in one-on-one conversations.
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My calculus prof was a straight-up Southern gentleman with a white mustache who actually wore white suits and had a heavy Foghorn Leghorn accent: he was harder to understand than any foreign professor I had--and I took Spanish 104 with a born-in-Russia guy named Zhimnitsky!


As for favorite classes, Philosophy of Law and (PoliSci) Intro to Constitutional Law were fun, and (English) Legacy of Romanticism with Mack Davis was a trip. And I feel like Philosophy 101 should be required for all liberal-arts college degrees: great stuff for a 19-year-old mind.
 
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