Hardest course you've ever done

**solypsist** · 03-17-2006, 03:27

this is the hardest course i've ever done: the akina downhill against a trueno 86!

**KukriKhan** · 03-17-2006, 05:28

this is the hardest course i've ever done: the akina downhill against a trueno 86!

LoL. Good one, Soly!

For me: 'Call for Fire'; an Army course to teach infantry guys to call for artillery fire on a position not their own. They gave you a plastic thing called a 'whiz wheel' that I (a highschool dropout at the time) could never make sense of, to supposedly help you decide distance, declination and armament - I think (Redleg could probably straighten me out on that). That whiz-wheel thingee got pretty banged up in the mud and various bodily fluids that happen upon it during combat, and even combat simulations in Army schools.

Then there was the litany of the call itself. You were supposed to follow the prescribed format, and have all your ducks in order (like 10-digit grid coordinates) before you call. Thank gods for the forebearance of actual artillerymen on the other end of a real call; coaching idiots like me, so they understood where I was, and where the bad guys were. And which to throw heat at.

But for training, they had no patience. It took 4 no-go's before I got it.

'Course it doesn't compare to chem or physics (huge holes in my education). I admire your achievements, fellas.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 03-17-2006, 06:08

Ancient greek composition. Gah.

**Big_John** · 03-17-2006, 06:09

TA what are you doing back here?? this is where i hide from you and the others!!

**discovery1** · 03-17-2006, 06:15

I suppose it would be Chem AP, but we had a great teacher. Hmmmm. It would probably be the statics class I am taking now. I barely passed the two tests......

**Byzantine Prince** · 03-17-2006, 06:22

C programming is proving to be very challenging, especially at the rate that we are going. A 900 page text book in a semester?!? GAh!

**doc_bean** · 03-17-2006, 13:11

Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince

A 900 page text book in a semester?!? GAh!

Fluid dynamics here is 800pages in half a semester...

For me it was probably 'elasticity and plasticity' about the behaviour of materials under stress and pressure. This might not sound too hard, and I've done similar courses which were pretty easy, but this one

**Red Peasant** · 03-18-2006, 19:50

Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

Ancient greek composition. Gah.

Difficult yes, but I love Latin and Greek prose composition. It's like puzzle solving, but far more interesting than stupid crosswords, sudokus etc. (Gah!)