This class at University is a joke....

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I just started at college on Monday, and one of my classes is complete rubbish.
The class is supposed to be about Post-war Germany, so it should be a history class right? Watch informative documentaries.....read a history book? Well this one sure isn't.
I guess my idiot professor thinks that it'll be better for us to learn it through a series of "love novels" and "love films." I'm pretty pissed off that this is what I get for signing up for a history class.

So far college just seems like a joke. It's like high school level classes, only with a giant bureaucracy, annoying internet crap you have to do for each class, expensive, and more choices of what crappy classes you want to take.
The people also aren't interesting like I was told they'd be. They appear to look and act like everyone I went to high school with. I haven't really bothered talking to anyone though, and nobody's bothered talking to me. Thankfully social interaction isn't a priority for me.

You should see my classes - half the people had never studied photography before coming to Uni, some of them didn't even know how to operate a camera!

And now, they've cut our teaching hours to a mere 4 hours per week (6 hours every fourth week)! I'd love to know what they spend the remainder of our tuition fees on...

I have many stupid classes, teachers, classmates etc. This year in particular.

Freshman courses are especially bad for this kind of thing. I also had a history class my freshman year that just consisted of reading and watching fiction. It was stupid, but I did the work and got my A. College is much more relevant once you get into sophomore level courses in your major.

...welcome to the college experience.

During your time at college, you're going to take some classes that seem pointless...at best. You will sign up for classes that are described one way, and wind up being so different from that description that you might wonder if you are in the right classroom on the first day.

(I took a class titled "Asian Religions." Guess how much we really studied religion. Practically not at all.)

There will be filler classes that you have to take to meet some elective requirement. When selecting these courses....accept them for what they are, and try to find a good one. I took a course that was taught entirely online to meet an elective requirement. One of our assignments was to play the freeware version of Civilization. That's right, playing a game....and then talking about what strategy you used and how successful it was....for a grade. Another assignment was to make a drawing.

Cooper is right, it will get more interesting as you move through the years. By your senior year, you should be taking classes that are much more relevant to your interests. As for the people, give it some time. Freshmen are, in general, nothing more than high school seniors that were released in the wild, at least for the first few months. As you are taking freshman-level classes, that's mostly what you will be forced to deal with for now.

The majority of my courses have been quite good. Most of the crappy ones were liberal arts requirement classes with ideologically motivated professors using the classroom to promote some structuralist postmodernist garbage about how women can't be sexist and only white people can be racist and how tall buildings are phallic symbols of patriarchist oppression.

I have had one or two classes like that. Most are to fulfull distribution or general education requirements. Most professors realize that no one really wants to be there in these classes except maybe one or two people who are in that major...

It's much better than high school though because usually you don't have as much stupid busy work...

So probably things will get better once you get into your major courses and what you're actually interested in...

First year tends to be more like high school than the higher years do. That's usually because the goof balls and others who don't do so well end up getting weeded out. So by the time you get to the higher years, you'd either be smart or hardworking. It's very rare that you end up there on plain dumb luck alone. I actually met more interesting people in my higher years of university than I did in first year.

I find it very ineffective to learn through classes. Many professors don't care about teaching since they aren't paid for it. Also you really don't have to understand what you are learning well except to just beat the average person in class.

I had a religions of the world class which was a joke, along with my algebra class. In the religions of the world we basically just learned about the different sects of Christianity and pretty much called everything else BS religions. The class description was to better understand religions other then your own, not to put down non-Abrahamic religions.

Then there was the algebra class, I can still hear the teacher screaming we do not subtract in this class, doing so didn't just mean getting the problem wrong but you actually lost points.
In other worlds 10-5-2=3 is completely wrong, it would have to be 10+(-5)+(-2)=3. While thats pretty simple for basic math when you start getting into the more advanced stuff its just a total pain.