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What class in college did you get the most out of?
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Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#32My AP Eng. teacher had a one-one talk with me on day 2 of class about her expectations--and how much I had slacked on the first homework assignment. For once a teacher that didn't rubberstamp everything you turned in. I went from hating English to loving that class.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#33Not a specific class, but I've really enjoyed taking the various speaker series. These are one credit classes where we just get a different speaker each week. This semester I'm actually taking Women & Entrepreneurship. It's basically 60 women and me. They like having me around though so it works out.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#34Theory of Computation - this was really a grab bag of discrete math. We covered a little of automata theory, complexity, graph theory, and even abstract algebra. The problem sets were really hard, it felt like weight-lifting for my brain.
Molecular Biology - the material itself was a bit dry, but taken as a whole it completely changed my understanding of life as a dynamic process.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#35oil painting. taught me to look at the world in a whole different way. and inspired me to change my major.
(i'm not saying this to win points with PG. i actually find hacking pretty different from painting.)
more generally, stretch out into different disciplines. these days, most of the interesting stuff happens at the intersections. plus, you'll meet a lot of interesting folks whose paths would never cross with yours otherwise.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#361) Technical Writing
2) Project Management
A tie for most useful... Both courses have been far more practical than my actual technical capabilities. The first one taught me how to effectively tailor my ideas to my audience, and the second taught me how to take an idea from start to finish.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#37Not a specific class, but I've really enjoyed taking the various speaker series. These are one credit classes where we just get a different speaker each week. This semester I'm actually taking Women & Entrepreneurship. It's basically 60 women and me. They like having me around though so it works out.
I'm sure you like having them around more :)
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#38Human Intelligence Enterprise: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#39My Compilers introductory course. But that's probably because I work on a compiler in my actual job right now.
I also really enjoyed my computational geometry class.
But the first poster is right: good teachers are at least if not way more important than interesting classes.
Re: What class in college did you get the most out of?
#40History of Science.
Granted, it's not a math or CS course, but nothing has better informed the way I think about problems, technical and political. It might as well be called 'History of Problems'.