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What class was the most rewarding you've ever taken? (1 Viewer)

I had an economics class called poverty and society that was cool. The other was a soc class on sexuality.

Now I hate Wal-Mart, the top 2% and hope disable people can explore their sexuality freely. :thumbup:

 
Quantum mechanics. Some of it is just so mind blowing that this is how reality works. I especially liked how it paired with chemistry. Chemistry provided a lot of "how" things happen... but quantum mechanics showed the "why" of it.

It's the one class I'm tempted to dig out my old books and notes and go over again. Been so long since I did that high of level of math though, not sure I would enjoy it now.

 
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There was a sociology class in high school that had a waiting list. Every senior wanted to take the class. The teacher talked about a lot of things that weren't supposed to be discussed in a Catholic High School. He ended up losing his job for showing The Breakfast Club in class.

Great teacher, one of the few I even remember.

 
I took a History of Los Angeles course taught by a visiting professor. It was awesome. I learned a ton about the city and found it fascinating how a few people made a ton of money buying land where a water pipeline was going to be. The movie 'Chinatown' was based on it.

It was probably my most enjoyable course that I ever took at Caltech, not one of my engineering or science courses.

 
Statics. Professor was the senior faculty member at my university (50 years or so). Taught by heart. All tests were unannounced. People either loved him or hated him - IMO he was awesome. Really respected the guy and still proud of getting a good grade in that class (you earned every point of that grade).

 
D_House said:
ob/gyn clerkship.
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Delivered a handful of babies, assisted on C-sections, performed an endometrial biopsy, evaluated a woman with an ectopic pregnancy in the ED and then scrubbed into her emergent surgery to get rid of it, observed an elective termination of a non-viable fetus, helped take care of a woman after a late term stillbirth, and also scrubbed in on several robotic-assisted gyn/onc surgeries and saw some cool nasty-looking tumors. It was an emotional experience and the best rotation of medical school.

 
Grad seminar on Freud.

The material it added for my comedy alone was worth it. But I actually use it a lot in analyzing literature.

 
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KCitons said:
There was a sociology class in high school that had a waiting list. Every senior wanted to take the class. The teacher talked about a lot of things that weren't supposed to be discussed in a Catholic High School. He ended up losing his job for showing The Breakfast Club in class.

Great teacher, one of the few I even remember.
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Very similar to my experience. I had a sociology/psychology class as a senior in a Catholic high school. The teacher had amazing stories about all of the different people that he had met in his life and used movies as a teaching aid (looking back, I think it was a mix of him showing films to show related materials and him having taught long enough that seniors in the second half of the year weren't going to learn a damn thing).

It was a great class, though. A lot of open dialogue. He treated us like adults genuinely cared about what we had to say.

A sampling of the things we watched:

Cybil

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

The Dream Team

Bill Cosby, Himself

Steven Wright

A documentary on day-to-day prison life, which included this exchange between the interviewer and a prison inmate.

Interviewer: "When a new inmate is brought into the cell block, is there any initiation that occurs?"

Inmate: "Aw yeah man. We make him toss the salad."

Interviewer: "And what is that?"

Inmate: [Goes into a somewhat graphic description]

Interviewer: "So why that? Why not something like oral sex?"

Inmate: [leaning forward in his seat to get serious, then grinning] "Look, man. When you suckin' a ####, you can pretend that's somethin' else. But when you eatin' ###, you know you eatin' ###."

 
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KCitons said:
There was a sociology class in high school that had a waiting list. Every senior wanted to take the class. The teacher talked about a lot of things that weren't supposed to be discussed in a Catholic High School. He ended up losing his job for showing The Breakfast Club in class.

Great teacher, one of the few I even remember.
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Very similar to my experience. I had a sociology/psychology class as a senior in a Catholic high school. The teacher had amazing stories about all of the different people that he had met in his life and used movies as a teaching aid (looking back, I think it was a mix of him showing films to show related materials and him having taught long enough that seniors in the second half of the year weren't going to learn a damn thing).

It was a great class, though. A lot of open dialogue. He treated us like adults genuinely cared about what we had to say.

A sampling of the things we watched:

Cybil

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

The Dream Team

Bill Cosby, Himself

Steven Wright

A documentary on day-to-day prison life, which included this exchange between the interviewer and a prison inmate.

Interviewer: "When a new inmate is brought into the cell block, is there any initiation that occurs?"

Inmate: "Aw yeah man. We make him toss the salad."

Interviewer: "And what is that?"

Inmate: [Goes into a somewhat graphic description]

Interviewer: "So why that? Why not something like oral sex?"

Inmate: [leaning forward in his seat to get serious, then grinning] "Look, man. When you suckin' a ####, you can pretend that's somethin' else. But when you eatin' ###, you know you eatin' ###."
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Amen.

 
On The Rocks said:
Typing
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Without a doubt, typing and driver's ed were the two most useful classes I took in 13 years of government schooling.

There were a couple of English classes I enjoyed, especially the one where I learned to diagram sentences. Is that still taught these days?

 
I took a statistics/business blended course that involved a lot of modeling and problem solving that was the most rewarding at the time, because it was hard as hell but when you got everything to click, it was awesome.

I also took a Negotiations class as one of my business electives that probably helped me more out of college than anything else, at least with material I couldn't learn in a book or from a website like finance/accounting basics. Every week we broke up into groups and were given a couple pages of info related to some kind of negotiation and the goal we were trying to achieve, but each party got different info and some of it was conflicting, so you had to figure out the best way to handle the deal. It was things as simple as buying a car to acquiring large organizations. Each group ran the same case and we compared results across the class at the end. It taught me a lot about thinking outside the box and avoiding zero sum games (Michael Scott's "win-win-win").

 
Four of them, if you'll pardon me.

The political philosophy classes where we read, discussed, and studied (as much as one can) Allan Bloom and Alexis de Tocqueville. Those two authors got me thinking about America and democracy in radically different ways than I had previously.

Also, the professor that taught my Marxian Political Economy class turned me on to Hayek and Friedman in the '90s despite his own political leanings, so that was also hugely rewarding for both my intellectual development and my appreciation of intellectual diversity and tolerance.

And keyboarding. I could type anyway, but that class helped me jump from about 40 WPM to about 80-90.

 
Mine was Advanced Calculus 1 & 2. Was taken in consecutive semesters, same classmates/teacher/block etc, and was a senior level math class. Was by far the hardest math class I had ever taken. When we started there were 32 people in the class, all senior level/grad level math students.

Only 10 of us took the final for Ad Cal 2. Only me and five other undergrads, the other 4 were grad students. We were also the only 6 to graduate with a bachelors in Mathematics for the undergrads.. Seriously the first college course that I had to consistently study for, instead of just review some notes the night before a test. The professor was a hardass, very unforgiving when grading your proofs. The grades consisted of 10 unannounced quizzes worth 10 points each, and a midterm and a final worth 200 points each. Was the first time I was actually proud of the A I earned.

 
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Statics. Professor was the senior faculty member at my university (50 years or so). Taught by heart. All tests were unannounced. People either loved him or hated him - IMO he was awesome. Really respected the guy and still proud of getting a good grade in that class (you earned every point of that grade).
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so, like radio and stuff?

I took 3 graduate level business classes my last semester in college, one (I forget the title, something with finance) was about the stock market. Accounting 501 was also interesting.

 
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