# What were your favorite classes in college? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151 "2012-08-11T02:48:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/41 "2012-08-15T17:42:51Z")
I loved my run of digital electronics courses, most computer science courses related to programming or computer internals, and my design projects. I also had a humanities credit for The History of the Reformation, and that class was fun. I hated analog electronics, Discrete Mathematics, and the rest of my humanities. Somewhere in between the two extremes is the run of calculus and differential equations. I love the topics, but some classes sucked in execution while others did not. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/42 "2012-08-15T18:04:18Z")
Cosmology: Our class was simultaneous with the COBE satellite mission, and our professor showed us in class the real-time data confirming the anisotropic results as it was coming in from the COBE team, before the media and general public. It felt like being involved in history. Complex systems: Electrical engineering class on complex math. Would normally be dry, but we had a crazy professor who dedicated a 4-hour lecture to a fundamental development of _i_ that blew my fragile little mind. I felt like I’d suddenly seen the dribbly green text of The Matrix revealed. German: A hot professor that left me in a constant saturated puppy love swoon for 3 months. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/43 "2012-08-15T18:24:56Z")
It wasn’t so much the classes as the teachers and students. There were a few teachers that I had in wildly divergent classes, and those classes were always good (or bad). But some favorite classes included: Atonal Solfege – The teacher was OK, but the material was fun and challenging. Arranging – All 4 or 6 levels (whatever is was) were fun, but the bigger the band, the more fun it was. History of John Lennon – The teacher was OK, but the material was a hit. I graduated at the end of the fall semester, and that was my last class on my last day. I ended my college career with Happy Christmas in my head. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/44 "2012-08-15T19:31:53Z")
At Columbia, we were required to take two semesters of Contemporary Civilization- a course dedicated to many of the great philosophical and political texts of the Western world, from Plato through Augustine, Maimonides, Montaigne, Locke, Hume and assorted other great thinkers. I enjoyed those two classes more than any other I’ve taken. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/45 "2012-08-15T19:37:47Z")
Socrates,Jesus and Buddha-Exactly what it says on the tin. Very interesting class comparing their philosphies. We’d meditate for 5 minutes tgo start each class. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151/46 "2012-08-15T19:45:58Z")
I went into Art because I loved it, was fairly good at it, and it meant that I didn’t have to buy many books. Any of the practical classes were fun, even the hard ones. Specifically: Animation - this was hand-drawn animation (the class is all Flash now). Such a pain in the ass, but so much fun. I don’t remember what the class was called, but it was basically a computer drawing class. It was a small class, about 10 of us. Loved the teacher, loved the assignments. I don’t think I learned very much, but it was good practice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-classes-in-college/631151.md?page=2)