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So I am in Medical Terminology class, which is basically three hours of her reading from the damn book! Of course three hours of basically reading along with her can get boring, and it does. Now she does have medical experience and usually tell us what it's like working in the Medical field, but other than that this class is dull and boring. I mean we're in a computer lab, and several of the students are on the computer surfing the net. Others bring in books to read (I did).

Apparently she caught me tonight reading and after class told me not to do it again. Now I know that I should've been paying attention (even though I can read the book and get the same information.) I don't mean to insult her or act like I don't care about the subject matter. It's just that the class is really really really boring, and it's kind of hard to force yourself to pay attention for three hours when all she does is read a book and throw in personal anecdotes. I admit I'm at fault for not paying attention, but she could make her class more interesting.

Also about not being prepared for the test, all she does is test us on the word bank, correct spelling and definition, that is it. So, I'm not too concern about passing her testes.

So who here has had really boring classes?

Hah. I know someone who's enrolled in 'Medical Terminology' right now. :p It's a 2-unit pass/fail class, but yeah, it looked boring.

Me, I'm not a student any more, but I had a few. Anything math-related comes to mind.

Considering I find accounting to be absolutely enthralling, the bulk of my boring classes are those that have nothing to do with business. Especially the GECs related to topics in which I have no interest. This quarter, however, pretty much all of my classes have been at least tolerable.

I took an archaeology class once where lecture was actually optional, although I shamed myself into going to three of the ten classes. It was entirely right that it was optional: she basically read from the book for two hours.

Most of my undergrad classes were interesting, although I didn't always pay attention. I got a LOT of writing for my creative fiction classes done in Lit lectures. ;) But the classes I had to take for my teaching credential were mostly incredibly dull, and not of the greatest practical use. Plus, they were all at least three hours long. Imagine three hours of a teaching math class where you're the only one who gets the difference between a FRACTION and a RATIO. :headbang:

Until you've taken a class entitled corporate taxation at 8:30 in the fucking morning 3 days a week I don't want to hear about boring, k?

I'm in a class called Introduction to Computer Science. Oh, sounds like it could be cool. No... it's an introduction to using Microsoft Office.

That and Audio for Media. It sounded so great... but it was three hours one night a week on the theory of recording dumbed down so the Music Business majors can take it, too. (It's a requirement for business and production students.) Theory without getting any practical application is pretty much useless because you forget it really easy. And somehow I don't remember going over signal flow AT ALL in that class... wtf. It's the most basic part of audio recording, and I don't think it ever got mentioned.

Anything with the word 'Epidemiology' is guaranteed to scare me away from the lecture theatre

Considering I find accounting to be absolutely enthralling, the bulk of my boring classes are those that have nothing to do with business. Especially the GECs related to topics in which I have no interest. This quarter, however, pretty much all of my classes have been at least tolerable.

Now I found Accounting sleep-inducing, but Urban Planning, Microeconomics and Business Systems were .... boring, too. I was an Admin major, but really preferred literature and history. If you want to be happy, never let your parents talk you into studying something "useful."

Anything with the word 'Epidemiology' is guaranteed to scare me away from the lecture theatre

My daughter would chide you, she has a Master's in epidemiology, and for some reason only she can fathom, finds it fascinating.

Also about not being prepared for the test, all she does is test us on the word bank, correct spelling and definition, that is it. So, I'm not too concern about passing her testes.


Is she a post-operative transsexual, then? I know this is a medical terminology class, but isn't asking the students to pass around her removed sexual organs potentially a little too hands-on?

Still, at least it might liven up the class a bit for you!


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My daughter would chide you, she has a Master's in epidemiology, and for some reason only she can fathom, finds it fascinating.

Surely she was forced to attend through some sort of leverage designed by a being of pure evil

Surely she was forced to attend through some sort of leverage designed by a being of pure evil

Strangely, no. And now she's a lieutenant in the Air Force, working in their Public Health Command. It seems to have worked out for her. Personally, I foresee years of terminal boredom.

Now I found Accounting sleep-inducing, but Urban Planning, Microeconomics and Business Systems were .... boring, too. I was an Admin major, but really preferred literature and history. If you want to be happy, never let your parents talk you into studying something "useful."

Why do you think I'm studying to be a Occupational Therapist? It's a "useful" job in life that my parents talked me into. Personally after I get out, I'm moving down to Florida, and getting a degree in Airport Mangement. We have a 24 hour Regional Airport here with both day shift and night shift. I would not mind being the night manager at this airport. I love airplanes and I'm a night owl anyways, it would be perfect for me.

I'm currently taking a class, I'm not sure the subject, where the prof basically can't talk. You see, he is a nerd. Not a geek (aka nerd with some social skills), a nerd. He lacks the practice needed to talk adequately. He has a horrible nerd accent ( 'th' is pronounced 'z', most vowels sound more like an 'e' than they should, etc ). On top of that, he mumbles allot and slurs the end of one word into the next word, which is usually an 'um' or 'uh'. He can't plan out the wording of the sentence as he says it so he pauses every second or third word.

As an added bonus, he has a 100% success rate for being unable to answer a student's question.

Now that is a boring class. Thank fucking god I have a cell phone and a huge text messaging plan.

My business marketing professor was TERRIBLE.

He would be talking, and then in the middle of it all lose his thought and LITERALLY think for a solid TWO MINUTES before he remembered what he was going to say... :headbang:

pfft try having military recruit level English (aka grunting for beginners) after waking up every 2 hours every bloody night

I fell asleep and got shouted at :(

The most boring class I have ever taken was a sociology class with a certain savannah mayor. He was mono-toned, the subject matter was boring, it was my first college class, it was summer...

Two years ago I did a Marketing course title Marketing: A consumer focus, sure it seemed alright by the lecturer all of his lecture notes was what he put up on the projector and he handed out the lecture notes to everyone and he said this all in a single monotone voice did I mention that what he said was exactly the same as what was in the book. I actually fell asleep a couple of times.

The worse thing is I have him again this semester starting next week if that wasn't enough to put me off the name of the topic Business Research Methods. Yes I know but it is a compulsory topic.


As this seems t have turned into a I have a more boring class than you I will have to say top that!!!

So I am in Medical Terminology class, which is basically three hours of her reading from the damn book! Of course three hours of basically reading along with her can get boring, and it does. Now she does have medical experience and usually tell us what it's like working in the Medical field, but other than that this class is dull and boring. I mean we're in a computer lab, and several of the students are on the computer surfing the net. Others bring in books to read (I did).

Apparently she caught me tonight reading and after class told me not to do it again. Now I know that I should've been paying attention (even though I can read the book and get the same information.) I don't mean to insult her or act like I don't care about the subject matter. It's just that the class is really really really boring, and it's kind of hard to force yourself to pay attention for three hours when all she does is read a book and throw in personal anecdotes. I admit I'm at fault for not paying attention, but she could make her class more interesting.

Also about not being prepared for the test, all she does is test us on the word bank, correct spelling and definition, that is it. So, I'm not too concern about passing her testes. 1. what about her testes ??
2. why don't you tell her that her class is boring and why?

My classes are generally not all that boring, though the macroeconomics professor does talk more about interest rates than he needs to.

my english class this year is a snoozer. and the teacher is so annoying and gets on everyone's nerves and she is really old and overeacts about everything.

I used to quantify the level of boring-ness of a class: the amount of time passed till I first checked my watch how much longer the class was going to take. A good teacher would make it to 30 minutes (our classes at uni were in 45 minute blocks). The worst one was 10 seconds, I think that was digital signal theory or something similar.

Also about not being prepared for the test, all she does is test us on the word bank, correct spelling and definition, that is it. So, I'm not too concern about passing her testes.
Yup. Stealin' and passing around her testes ain't good behavior. It's not a nice way to retaliate. :D

So who here has had really boring classes?
One whole day lecture on renal tubular function, the lecturer, although nice, was a li'l bit boring, and the subject matter was too hard, my brain just crashed and I curled up in my seat.

Museum & Gallery management was horribly boring. I took it in the late afternoon and got out at 18:30. I also disliked taking Modern Art. I'm more of a Antiquity-Medieval-Reinassance-Manierism-Neoclassical kinda gal.

On the MA I'm currently working at, I dislike Nippon Phonetics. Perhaps I dislike the class because Japanese phonetics are so similar to the Spanish one that I feel time dragging.

no classes any more for me, but i can tell you work is fucking boring. actually, its fucking frustrating, so a defense mechanism is to turn off and become apathetic and bored...

no classes any more for me, but i can tell you work is fucking boring. actually, its fucking frustrating, so a defense mechanism is to turn off and become apathetic and bored...

...and then you start reading the NSG forums

If I went they'd probably bore me.

Most of my lectures consist of the lecturer simply reading aloud the notes passed out at the start. Economics 1 last year was a joke. At the start of the second semester the lecturer gave us the entire semester's notes then told us that so long as we kept up with reading we didn't need to come to lectures. Ok then, see you in May!

Why don't you just stay home when all she does is reading from a course you also have. You could study it at home. All you do now is lose time, I see no reason in attending useless classes like that. If you need notes you could ask friends or people in higher years.
I only went to one or two hours this week to see if they were interesting, only one course is somewhat interesting but the professor is a nazi, so I'm still doubting if I will go to his classes. I will have the notes from somebody a year higher.

...and then you start reading the NSG forums

it helps my productivity ;)

plus it keeps the evil pixies at bay <.< >.>

So I am in Medical Terminology class, which is basically three hours of her reading from the damn book! Of course three hours of basically reading along with her can get boring, and it does. Now she does have medical experience and usually tell us what it's like working in the Medical field, but other than that this class is dull and boring. I mean we're in a computer lab, and several of the students are on the computer surfing the net. Others bring in books to read (I did).

Apparently she caught me tonight reading and after class told me not to do it again. Now I know that I should've been paying attention (even though I can read the book and get the same information.) I don't mean to insult her or act like I don't care about the subject matter. It's just that the class is really really really boring, and it's kind of hard to force yourself to pay attention for three hours when all she does is read a book and throw in personal anecdotes. I admit I'm at fault for not paying attention, but she could make her class more interesting.

Also about not being prepared for the test, all she does is test us on the word bank, correct spelling and definition, that is it. So, I'm not too concern about passing her testes.

So who here has had really boring classes?
If you are in college, what is she going to do? Not give you the 5 points for class participation? She can't do shit and if she wasn't so boring, people would pay attention.

I'm in a class called Introduction to Computer Science. Oh, sounds like it could be cool. No... it's an introduction to using Microsoft Office.You were lucky. Shit like that is usually a historic overview of computer science.

Try being trapped in Greece for a week with my Latin teacher. If he ever mentions columns again...

it helps my productivity ;)

plus it keeps the evil pixies at bay <.< >.>

I have to agree with you. And when the day at work drags, NSG entertains quite a lot.:D

well you know what they did in ancient Greece right? was your teacher too rough with you?

Dis ambiguate please.

Nothing like what I think that is is out of bounds here...

Try being trapped in Greece for a week with my Latin teacher. If he ever mentions columns again...

well you know what they did in ancient Greece right? was your teacher too rough with you?

No i mean what did you do in Greece, because Latin can be a tough language to learn, hence the teacher being rough.
I didn't mean to make it ambiguous.

Sorry, my bad. Still, that's mixed schooling for you...

We went round Athens and then did All the stuff round Tolo and Nafplion and also popped into Sparta and Sounion.

Latin is Evil. No wonder the pope speaks it.

Dis ambiguate please.

Nothing like what I think that is is out of bounds here...

No i mean what did you do in Greece, because Latin can be a tough language to learn, hence the teacher being rough.
I didn't mean to make it ambiguous.

I had a Visual BASIC class with an instructor who freaked out when someone actually typed something, as in you couldn't even follow along in the class or he'd kick you out of the room o_O. I didn't learn a single thing from that class except a new name to look out for and change my schedule if it appears there.

Try being trapped in Greece for a week with my Latin teacher. If he ever mentions columns again...
My arts history teacher had a thing for columns.

Hey, if it makes you feel better, my mother teaches Medical Terminology, and she finds it boring as heck, too.

two words. english literature. of all the classes of all the world, nothing is more worthless than english. great, Eathan Frome broke his pickle dish. shut the fuck up about it!

:confused:

:p not literally, but he talked half an hour about how he wanted us to be totally quiet and never come to late and stuff like that.

Hey, if it makes you feel better, my mother teaches Medical Terminology, and she finds it boring as heck, too.

What I don't get is why they just don't make this an online course. You could go online, get the words you need to study, and then study it along with the subject in the book! You don't need three frickin' hours! >.<

You were lucky. Shit like that is usually a historic overview of computer science.

Oh, dry classes like that I can stand. My US History class was dry, but I could live through it. This class is ridiculous and insults my intelligence. I wish I was kidding, but one of the assignments was on copy/paste, and we've had to do such difficult things as making tables, arranging a document in to columns, and use a template to make a memo.

I mean, I expect Legal Problems to not be that exciting (it's on legal issues in the recording industry- contracts and stuff like that), but seeing as how Copyright isn't too bad, I don't think it will be anywhere near as painful as Intro to Computer Science.

And I thought I had it bad with horticulture. I basiclly got forced into it because I took Wildlife Management the same hour as Spanish One, which is a year long class. So once the fun class ended ,I got stuck in the most boring class in school. The only up-side is that the teacher looks like Adriana Lima.

What I don't get is why they just don't make this an online course. You could go online, get the words you need to study, and then study it along with the subject in the book! You don't need three frickin' hours! >.<

Well, given how dumb my mother's students frequently are, I'm guessing that it might be because administrators fear that reading actual books all by themselves would be too difficult for them. ;)

(Knowing that many of my mother's stupidest students go on to become nurses makes me absolutely terrified of hospitals...)

(Knowing that many of my mother's stupidest students go on to become nurses makes me absolutely terrified of hospitals...)

Don't be too terrified. The way it's worked at the hospital at home, most of the stupid nurses are the ones they always manage to find ways to fire quickly.

(Knowing that many of my mother's stupidest students go on to become nurses makes me absolutely terrified of hospitals...)

Well, better not trust doctors either. I know many stupid med students and I have seen several in compromising situations.

Well, better not trust doctors either. I know many stupid med students and I have seen several in compromising situations.

Oh, I know there are stupid med students - my mother also teaches A&P pretty regularly, so she's had some of them as well. But most of them can successfully remember extremely complex facts like "there is a difference between a bacterium and a virus," while most of the nursing students found this terribly confusing. Oy.

Is she a post-operative transsexual, then? I know this is a medical terminology class, but isn't asking the students to pass around her removed sexual organs potentially a little too hands-on?

Still, at least it might liven up the class a bit for you!


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I was gonna do something like that, but I knew somebody had beaten me to it. (And done it better)

I was gonna do something like that, but I knew somebody had beaten me to it. (And done it better)

The medical term for the day is "bilateral orchidectomy"

Oh, I know there are stupid med students - my mother also teaches A&P pretty regularly, so she's had some of them as well. But most of them can successfully remember extremely complex facts like "there is a difference between a bacterium and a virus," while most of the nursing students found this terribly confusing. Oy.

Here we have an exam you must do in order to start studying medicine. That way the level of stupidity is kept relatively low. But there are many who live kind of in an ivory tower and don't know anything about the world outside their courses. Which is pretty sad and stupid.

The medical term for the day is "bilateral orchidectomy"

Sideways removal of an orchid embedded in a person? Fairly simple operation, innit?

Is she a post-operative transsexual, then? I know this is a medical terminology class, but isn't asking the students to pass around her removed sexual organs potentially a little too hands-on?

Still, at least it might liven up the class a bit for you!


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ROFLMAO

Oh, dry classes like that I can stand. My US History class was dry, but I could live through it. This class is ridiculous and insults my intelligence. I wish I was kidding, but one of the assignments was on copy/paste, and we've had to do such difficult things as making tables, arranging a document in to columns, and use a template to make a memo.

I mean, I expect Legal Problems to not be that exciting (it's on legal issues in the recording industry- contracts and stuff like that), but seeing as how Copyright isn't too bad, I don't think it will be anywhere near as painful as Intro to Computer Science.
You gotta understand that you will be expected to know how to use all those features and you cannot really be expected to have any familiarity with the product. Most people don't know how to make tables or arrange things into columns. I've heard that 80% of people only know how to use 6% of MS Word's functionality...

I have several boring classes, and last semester as well

In fact, I figured out that last semester, I missed more class over all than I attended.

You gotta understand that you will be expected to know how to use all those features and you cannot really be expected to have any familiarity with the product. Most people don't know how to make tables or arrange things into columns. I've heard that 80% of people only know how to use 6% of MS Word's functionality...

I know how to use all of the functionality of Word that I need to- we're getting in to the realm of ridiculous by learning essentially how to make a cute newsletter in Word. But I'm going to be doing things like this in PowerPoint, Access, and Excel, too. It's ridiculous, I could type my name at 5, have been using computers a lot since, and fifteen plus change years later someone wants to teach me about how to change font styles?

Plus, if you aren't computer proficient, you're not going to make it in my major. (This course is required as general education credit for my major, but not for all majors.) It's like telling a math major who has already passed Calculus that they still need to take pre-algebra. You've proven you can do it. Why beat a dead horse?

So who here has had really boring classes?

I'm at uni at the moment...

I have a class coming up, which I suspect could be boring.

One of my film subjects is almost a replica of one I did last semester, so that might be a little boring too.

After reading all of this I consider myself lucky (Political Science FTW). the only thing bad about my classes (and that's debatable) is that I keep ending up on the hot seat. Fortunately I know my stuff, so I haven't embarassed myself, yet ;).

I'm in a class on Native American Philosophies this semester, and it basically consists of the professor standing in front of the class and rambling on and on about whatever the Hell enters her head for an hour or so.
The worst part, however, is class participation. No one has any idea what is going on from class to class, so whenever someone speaks up to make a comment it is some cliche ridden gibberish about how "Water is the lifeblood of our planet, and the fiber that binds us together as members of the biotic community of life with Mother Corn. Orenda-ghost-dance-pragmatism!"