I liked everything except math (except geometry, which I really liked).

I've always found it funny that I received a scholarship for geography and biology studies at the end of High School. Never went to study either one (although I've done some neurobiology along the rest of my studies). I think I just never got anything else than full marks from the exams, but I thought they were always really easy. I liked psychology and philosophy the most. I realize now how rudimentary stuff they were teaching back then though.

I didn't really like music classes. I don't think the teachers had much of an idea of what they were talking about and the music itself had very little to do with either popular or classical music. The teachers usually embarrassed themselves when they tried to speak of jazz or anything of the kind (I finally objected in high school when Kenny G. was being introduced as jazz). In the 80s and early-90s those classes in Finland would consist mostly of the teacher playing the piano and the students singing along. Boring as shit.

whistle said:

Favourites: Sociology, Psychology, English, Geology, Ecology

Hated It's: MATH, Chemistry, History ( shame really because I love history now, it was boring in school)

Shanti0608 said:

purpledoveuk said:

Shanti0608 said:

Favourites: Sociology, Psychology, English, Geology, Ecology

Hated It's: MATH, Chemistry, History ( shame really because I love history now, it was boring in school)

I'm with you on history...it was presented so boringly and the majority was so irrelevant - who gives a shit about Tudors etc. I feel so ignorant about WW1 & 2 now....and they're even considering dropping it from syllabuses!!!!!

For me, they taught it at the wrong age and it was sooo boring. My teacher just said, read pages blank - blank and then we will have a test.

It is a shame because it is just as imporant as Math(s), I think.

Shanti0608 said:

I was a good student, receiving top grades throughout school, other than a class or two I gave up on in high school when I became bitter and jaded and stopped caring about certain classes. I was in all honors and advanced placement and some college level courses.

I liked almost all of my academic classes. I loved english and was great at math. I enojyed music classes too, switching from band to choir in 10th grade. By senior year I gave up my nerdy classes like calculus and advanced science stuff to take art and humanities classes.

I do remember not liking economics.

And I hated gym, so much so that I took that and a health class in summer school one year to get out of the way so I wouldn't have to take any more through my last 3 years of high school.

Geez, it's been ions since I've been in school. In high school my best subjects were English, history, biology and art. I absolutely hated math, both algebra and geometry. I just couldn't wrap my brain around that shit!

In college, I had to take humanities in my freshman year. Mary, Jesus and Joseph! The professor was sooooo boring, I couldn't take it. Half the time I didn't go to class and ended up failing it. My favorites were African/American history and education classes.

I was good and bad on and off as a student, so I would say an above average student

I was good at math on and off, it went downhill grade 10 and onwards, though before it I was good at it most of the time

favourite subjects were

Music

English

Social Studies

loved Algebra, hated Geometry! I took a course that combined both and JUST passed!

[Edited 9/3/10 5:56am]

ernestsewell loved English.

johnart said:

Favorite: English/Art/Theatre

Hated: Math

Except for the art part. I was terrible at art.

Genesia said:

I was an average student in HS.

Favorite subjects: English & Social Studies

Least favorite subject: Math in general....GEOMETRY specifically

purpledoveuk said:

My school was weird though - teachers were nuts...we had an art teacher who was sacked for throwing a stuffed squirrel at a student, a history teacher who came into school dressed as a roman, an RE teacher (before the guy above) who had a breakdown because students showed him no respect and used to walk out of his lessons, a teacher who ALLEGEDLY went on the run for dodgy pictures, a biology teacher who told the class that a plants Stamen was like "a pair of hillocks swinging in the breeze" (inappropriate and incorrect...it's like a big cock), a French teacher and English teacher clearly having an affair under the noses of thief partners who also worked there.....and an inexplicably hot 25 year old female French teacher...

It seems like all the weirdest people end up teaching especially in Junior High and High School. Maybe it's just due to spending so much time with teenagers. I remember some of them were almost incapable of normal communication - like the physics teacher of mine that would shout throughout the entire class with his face red all over.

Genesia said:

johnart said:

Favorite: English/Art/Theatre

Hated: Math

Except for the art part. I was terrible at art.

OH, I also hated Phys Ed. WITH A PASSION.

As a fat kid who was artsy and not at all into sports I was terribly self concious. I often got a pass during play season for rehearsal, but still had to do it for the grade.

I wish gym class was not sports-based. So much comes into play (who's gonna pick me for their team? Will I get picked? I suck at sports so now all the jocks are gonna fuckin hate that I got an OUT for the team ....stupid stupid shit.

If it had just been a period of various excercises I would've been much more willing to participate and actually benefitted from it.

At our school, athletes were exempt from having to take gym/p.e. I think maybe you had to take one semester as a freshman, but after that if you were on a sports team during the corresponding semester you were off the hook. I was always playing sports so I never had to take gym!

I forgot about choir; I signed up one year because my friends did but I didn't like it. I'm not a very good singer and they were so that made it worse. I didn't take it after that year.

novabrkr said:

Haha.

You dirty, irreconcilable...

Liked:

Swedish

English

French

German

Math

Physics

Philosophy

History

Neutral:

Biology

Geography

Disliked:

Physical Education

Chemistry

Social Studies

I guess a good & kind professor is essential. I hated History until a real professor showed us how cool history really is...

Liked

-History

-Chemistry

-Physical Education

-Philosophy (it was useless jimbo-jambo, really, but I found it refreshing...)

-Spanish

Hated

-Maths (I got B+ and A- grades, though) Like one of my best friends said "Maths is that ugly witch who wants you dead"

-Technical drawing

-Physics

I'm not sure enjoyment's the word, but I liked the ones I was good at (numbers) and not so keen on the ones I found more taxing (words).

I hope that answers your question. If you require any further information, please feel free to contact me.

My favorite class was creative writing because I could really bullshit my way to an A. My least favorite was definitely math because I suck so hard at it. And I damn near didn't graduate because of all the damn gym classes I skipped. I had to make up classes at a secondary school for awhile. I hated school. Too boring and I felt like I was in a cage. I liked to skip and get smoked up somewhere else or in the parking lot.

History was my favorite subject. I have never failed it from elementary to college. Math was my least favorite, but have gotten better at it as I got older.

I loved english, (won all the spelling bees), social studies, reading, writing, history and anything and everything creative like drama, art, and music. I was a very good student and pretty much "teacher's pet' till I reached tenth grade and started smelling myself, as the old folks used to say. Then I discovered boys, got bored and started skipping class here and there and my grades suffered. In hindsight, I regret my stupidity, but at the time I thought I was grown.

Sewing and cooking...yuck!

I have always hated anything to do with math, business or economics and to this day I still love words and hate numbers. I was in high school the first and only time I got a B in math and that was because of Miss Lottie Cromartie...the only compassionate math teacher in the entire universe. She was a feisty black woman about a thousand years old and although she didn't take no crap from anybody, she was one of the kindest, most understanding souls who ever lived. Even the most disruptive kids in the school loved and respected her and I will never forget her.

I only liked PE when we did gymnastics, modern dance or any kind of dance. I hated competitive sports except for volley ball and badminton, and was always the last kid to get picked because I was soooo girly, as they used to call me. I couldn't throw, catch or kick worth a damn.

I kept growing and eventually got too tall to excel at gymnastics, but I sucked at basketball, (might break a nail) I did like to sprint and I was the second fastest kid in school. I didn't have the endurance for distance running though.

I mostly loved school and learning...luckily I have had some wonderful teachers. Anybody else have a particular teacher or teachers that they really loved?

johnart said:

Favorite: English/Art/Theatre

Hated: Math

THIS

But instead of theatre, I had dance

All the girls wanted to be my partner

Even my teacher.....