Favorite or most useful class ever?

[vash]

if i could do it over, i would take another speech class. i never would have never believed i would be in front of groups talking smack over and over. in my career, i am the go-to person if there is a group coming in that needs a talkin to. the first time, i was petrified. i almost turned to drugs. now i am waaaaaay better.

now for filler, fun classes? i took yoga. talk about a bunch of hot patcholie smellin girls. i was horrible, and totally not flexible, but damn....they were plenty flexible enough for everybody.

[Erakad]

Agree with all, the most useful class in high school was typing...never thought how much I'd use the skill since (and this dates me) computers were in their infancy.

In college...forget what all the rest said....most useful class I took was woodworking. I was in a similar position. I had pretty much taken all the core/elective courses I needed to graduate, needed some relief from the grind, so I took "fun" classes. Tennis, Wilderness and the Human Experience (some real good stories in that one), of course woodworking, and also electronics. Anyway, no kidding, I never took shop in high school...or ever...the stuff I learned, albeit very basic, I have used continually in my DYI projects ever since. Yes, statistics was useful in my job, so were the science...but those I had to have for my profession, useful, but must haves...not so much "personally" useful. Ditto for the classes I took for my masters...I've used them, but not the same as that basic woodworking class. Second most useful was electronics, same reasoning.

[s_morrison57]

Biology was my fave, but I was banging the proff so that might jade my choice for a best class pick

[berettafan]

EVERYBODY should have to take macro-economics.

[stevepaa]

undergrad : toss up between fluids and non-euclidean geometry

grad : stat thermo

both make you think out of the box.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by berettafan

EVERYBODY should have to take macro-economics.

+1. I also took micro-econ and my prof liked the bottle a bit. About halfway through the semester, he came into class totally hammered, and ended up being physically removed from the lecture hall by campus security. We never saw him again. I wonder what evered happened to him. Perhaps he moved on to work in the derivatives market.

[Steve Viegas]

I would say Personal Finance. My prof was great, he owned almost 100 properties in town, but the knowledge is something that you will use forever.

[pavulon]

reproductive physiology, friction and you

[RichMink76]

Physics, I think everyone should take a Physics class.

[madmmac]

4 years of psychology has truly made me wonder wtf about people.

[Zeke]

I think the most useful classes I took were after college. I took a few trade classes, plastic forming, injection, etc. and welding. I returned to welding school 35 years later. I wish I had taken sheet metal and a couple others. Once you get a degree, it's always nice to know some shop stuff so when you get the big salary, you can go home and relax in the garage and produce something useful.

Cooking would count as well. You have to eat; might as well eat good.

[asphaltgambler]

Anger management in college. It was a turning point for me dealing with people in a more controlled positive manner

[asphaltgambler]

Anger management in college. It was a turning point for me dealing with people in a more controlled positive manner. I learned 'social engineering' for the first time

[911Rob]

Construction Engineer.

Most useful was contract law (heavy emphasis on construction development)
Also construction estimating

Same professor for both, which definately made a difference.
The guy became a business partner of mine a few years later

Most fun; the "K" wing.
College had A, B, C wings and campus', the K wing was the Kingsway Bar nearby.

[cwiert]

Undergrad: Astronomy
Grad school: Bargaining and Negotiations.

In my experience, you're better off picking a teacher you like (even if you don't like the class) than a class you like, with a teacher you don't. Good teachers make even uninteresting subjects interesting.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

No green ink: Acting class and a speech class.

Listen to this man. Someone who can "sell" with grace will succeed.

For me, (don't laugh) - formal logic (taught out of the philosophy department). The whole if P then Q stuff. Actually quite useful for critical analysis.

Best was organic chemistry, taught in a very unique way (starting from the Schrodinger wave equation and building from there). All mechanistic, almost no memorization. Turns out you can predict about 75% of all reactions knowing like 4 or 5 first principles.

[Monza_dh]

I went to school in the mts of NH and took SNOWBOARDING for .5 credit. Best "class" I ever had!!

My next would be Middle Eastern History, no lie.....

[Netspeed]

My favorite class? Hands-down it had to be my Acoustics 101 at the local community college. I really should have stuck with it but life seems to get in the way sometimes....

[rfloz]

Most useful:

1. Typing, hands down.
2. Basic Accounting. Especially if you might ever work for yourself, or invest in stocks.
3. Contract Law (which I took) and probably Econ 101 (which I didn't and regret).
4. Logic (really helps maximize your BS meter).

Most fun:

Too many to count - History of Jazz, Physical Anthro, Cultures of the Mediterranean (everyone had to cook a Mediterranean dish for the class), Linguistics (really), Statistics (no, really, also quite useful), Philosophy (most), Creative Writing, Yoga (yoga is great by itself, but you are also surrounded by all those supple young women), Speech (which I thought I'd hate), Mythology, and any class taught by a great professor.


If only someone would pay me to go to school.

[ChkbookMechanic]

Undergraduate - Embedded Systems

Everything is headed this way.. new cars have upwards of 20+ controllers all connected to one another. Everything in the kitchen is an embedded system as well, it is nice to know how they are programmed and how to make them. It also had a lab associated with it where you programmed networks of embedded systems. A lot of fun, but a very advanced programming class.

Undergraduate - Number Theory

This class was called 'Discrete Mathematics' but in all honesty it was a catch-all class for whatever the math prof wanted to teach. In my case it was basic logic then number theory. I failed every test until the final, knowing that if I aced the final I'd make an A (which is what he said). About an hour before the final, all the logic and hit me and everything made sense. I know I aced the final and then I end up getting a B. I wasn't going to complain cause I didn't want my score lowered, but I don't think he wanted to give someone who failed every test and homework an A in the class cause they aced the final..

Either way, it was a lot of fun because the logic is something you will use in the future, especially if you consider getting any sort of advanced degree.

Graduate - Robotics

You'll find out programming the robot isn't hard, it is the spec'ing of the motors that is the hard part. Like embedded systems, things are going this way and it is nice to know what makes them tick. The math in the class wasn't terribly difficult, mainly transformation matrices and some addition/subtraction.