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What was your favorite class in high school or college?

I thoroughly enjoyed many of my college classes, but Shakespeare was my favorite. It was just a wonderful experience that has stuck with me over the years. I also adored Classical and Victorian literature and Ancient Philosophy.

Feel free to share any stories or anecdotes related to your favorite classes or professors.

Weirdly, both my favourite classes had teachers who I felt desperately sorry for because they didn't have the ability to control the class.

In history we had a teacher who I really liked because she was obviously so passionate about the subject but the kids would just take the piss out of her constantly. I loved watching her get excited about history and I always felt sad that the class didn't respond to it.

In Information Technology we had a teacher who didn't pronounce her g's when saying -ing words. We also had these swivel chairs that squeaked. Kids would just sit there squeaking their chairs until she lost her rag and shouted "Stop squeakin!" which of course everyone found hilarious. I can remember her leaving the class in tears on several occasions.

Teenagers are terrible people.

My middle school/high school teacher was extremely unqualified to teach. However, she put forth some effort in between bouts of obsessive video game playing, movie watching, and novel reading. I’ll say that much. Still, I didn’t realize that I was good at math until college. Science was a problem too.

Anything hands on, anything that can be demonstrative and not too word heavy unless it's modified into some sort of visualization or a pattern to abstract the concept onto.

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Top favorite was chemistry and the ever-patient teacher, probably the best one I ever had and likely why I was first one year and second the next in the exams. Me, from a piddling middle-of-the road B-stream.

Then physics, another high-scoring subject. I seemed to be the only one in the class who understood the teacher, even though he tended to drone on and over-explain - probably a side effect of having a class full of people who would rather be elsewhere. I'll never forget his Wimshurst machine demonstration though.

Then biology - same teacher as chemistry. This triggered an interest in microscopy, one which gets intermittently resurrected.

Then history. I don't remember focussing on a specific area - I just liked knowing about historical stuff.

I quite enjoyed English too, when we were allocated a decent teacher. There was one we called "Bubbles" and he was, well, a bit queenly. The nickname suited him perfectly.

Bioanthropology 388/389 bone lab.

It was a class about how to identify types of hominids based on location/history and bone morphology and it was gnarly enough that it was a 2 quarter sequence. It might have been the hardest class I took in undergrad, and definitely the coolest.

I wasn't deep into chemistry but I loved it to the point that one time I took a community college class for fun in an effort to break a bout of depression.

In Highschool I was loving history but last minute decided to be a Biomed major specialising in microbiology in college. My favourite unit was Cell Culture. I enjoyed the experience of growing living cells (human, animal, plant and microbes) in artificial growth medium.

Biology, particulary microscopy
History, Geography, Dutch, English, and drawing-art<shame we didn't learn anything there
(chemistry& physics, only the theory part not making silly calculations wtf)
-empty hours going to the cafe where quite often zappa-albums were played

Although I did well in school, it made me so anxious that I didn't enjoy any of it. I especially hated college, where it was a futile scramble to keep up, and then all that mattered as far as the grade was writing a good paper, which I could do and did, but it was just stress, even when the subject interested me.

Before transferring to a liberal arts college I went to art school, and those classes I loved. They were very very serious about art and we talked about all kinds of ideas and issues related to visual art that were absolutely fascinating, plus making the art itself was wonderful. Still a bit of stress I suppose. Just getting the assignments done.

High School -
English, French, and Senior Philosophy.
My Phil teacher had two doctorates so we called him Doctor Doctor _________.


Undergrad -
1) Acting
I did a minor in Dramatic Literature with the Drama department so an Acting class was mandatory
It was a small class in a beautiful gothic rotunda where we could sit on pillows and wear sweats
It was my only class on that day of the week - I think it was Fridays
We read everything from Milton to Wilde

*I didn't love my actual Shakespeare class with the English Department
It was OK but very rushed because we were on semesters and read 16 plays

2) Philosophy of Mathematics (Philosophy)
3) Deductive Logic (Philosophy)

4) Victorian Literature - (English) Lots of brilliant course content
5) German Romanticism - Funny prof



Graduate -
Hermeneutics
Phenomenology
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Hated - Anthropology, Calculus, Psychology



Here's what Phil of Maths is about if anyone's interested:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phil ... thematics/

Yeah I never figured out calculus
Is there a calculus club on WP? Would not mind a refresher

I understood Calculus. That wasn't the problem.
I just didn't like the class or the textbook.

Social Sciences were hell for me, likely because I wasn't NT.
Nothing ever rang true with my perception of normal.

I get stuck on what the purpose was of deriving X and Y to solve some hypothetical equation. then why do we need the sine, cosine and tangent of a circle. I had crummy math teachers who I was too scared to ask as they would lose their patience with me.

we never had philosophy,
but we had greek lessons
when reading greek mythology the teacher would skip the saucy bits
but the teacher was a bit of a type (aspie) too with the wrinkled clothes and bra over the blouse but under the jumper, married to the frumpy math teacher, luckily not our math teacher for long - was not good for and at teaching at all,
they had one son, that was best friend with my brother but sadly after hs he got a mental breakdown, idk what became of that situation

I never studied Greek Mythology.
I don't know anything about it except Icarus and Daedalus.

With Music History being my special interest, it should come as no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed it in college. Especially Music History I and II. My enthusiasm was enough to make even the professor go "huh". lol

There were a couple of other classes of other subjects that I also really enjoyed in college:

Medieval England: I love history in general, but this one really hit the spot! A narrow focused course, perhaps one that a history major is more expected to take, it was so neat! I enjoyed all of it! I'd go take more of similar courses just for fun if I could.

Plants & People: I took this for a Biology credit IIRC. It was unexpectedly an amazing class. As one can easily infer from the title it was a class where Botany was tied in with society. I learned so much in that class! Just how much we use plants in our everyday life is incredible. I also got to do a paper and presentation on the woods used in woodwind instruments, which of course, I went all out for!