What is/was your least favorite subject in nursing school? I despised statistics. I took it over a summer, only course I took, 3 hours a day, five days a week, for three weeks. I studied another 45 (really, sometimes as many as eight hours a day) hours a week, had a peer tutor, and went in to the see the prof during office hours all three weeks. Squeaked through with a C-, which, truth be told, I probably didn't deserve. Maybe he just didn't want to see me during the fall, lol! A similar experience with Latin (why I chose to take that language is a long story, but let's just say I was misguided), but at least failing that course wouldn't have had such dire consequences.
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The one course I positively HATED was called Science and Culture in the Western Tradition, which turned out to be eight weeks of watching films narrated by an English fellow who blamed the Catholic Church for virtually everything that's gone wrong in the past 2000 years. :angryfire Even though I wasn't, and still am not, a practicing Catholic, I was offended by the negativity, and even more so by the fact that the instructor saw nothing wrong with it. After the class was over, I wrote a letter to the dean asking him to review the course content; I never heard back from him, but I did notice that that particular instructor never taught the class again. :)
This is a little off topic, since it wasn't a class I especially disliked, but I took a religion class thinking it'd be an easy A or B. We were assigned different religions to research and I was assigned the Jehovah Witnesses. So when a couple JV women came by our apartment one day, instead of saying I wasn't interested, I invitied them in. I let them come back for a few weeks before finally fessing up that I wasn't interested in their converting to their religion. I was only 19 at that time, but looking back I am appalled that it never occurred to me that I was wasting their time, and worse, leading them on when they really believed that my soul would be saved if I converted. Even then on some level I must have known it was wrong, because in my paper I just cited them as a source and didn't actually give the circumstances under which I had obtained all the information from them.
Peds and OB...hate it, hate it, hate it!!!! In Peds, I was constantly nervous and I felt like the kids parents were breathing down my neck all the time, and OB freaked me out because I haven't had kids yet, and watching other women give birth sure didn't make me want to in the future. The worst part is, I'm currently in an LPN-to-RN program...so in the spring I have to take them again!!
We had an ethics class called "Seminar." Then we "broke up into small groups-been there done that?" and that course was called Seminar on Seminar. Ohhhhh it still galls me all these years later.
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This is a little off topic, since it wasn't a class I especially disliked, but I took a religion class thinking it'd be an easy A or B. We were assigned different religions to research and I was assigned the Jehovah Witnesses. So when a couple JV women came by our apartment one day, instead of saying I wasn't interested, I invitied them in. I let them come back for a few weeks before finally fessing up that I wasn't interested in their converting to their religion. I was only 19 at that time, but looking back I am appalled that it never occurred to me that I was wasting their time, and worse, leading them on when they really believed that my soul would be saved if I converted. Even then on some level I must have known it was wrong, because in my paper I just cited them as a source and didn't actually give the circumstances under which I had obtained all the information from them.