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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:10 PM
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What was your favorite course in school.
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 04:12 PM by Oz
Not the one you got the best grades in but the one you enjoyed the most.

For me it was a course in Geology at college. I was getting a BS degree and it was a required course. I had absolutly no interest in the subject matter until the class started. I really got into it so much that I almost changed my major. The Professor was great and the field trips were the best. I still have some plant fossils I found that are millions of years old and learned a lot doing a dig at a 600 year old indian village. Kind of creeped me out brushing around skeletal remains with toothbrushes.
It was a great experience and if I wasn't so lazy at the time maybe I would have changed majors. Maybe another life.

The theory of Plate Tectonics still fascinates me.
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:11 PM
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1. Zoology nt
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:11 PM
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2. Music Class in Elementary School.
Of course, then Proposition 13 passed and shot my dreams to hell. May big dogs urinate frequenly upon the grave of Howard Jarvis.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:11 PM
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3. history
whetever era, it was always my favorite
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testing123 Donating Member (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:12 PM
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4. Study Hall
Art
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:15 PM
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22. We used to get a pass out of Study Hall
And go to the band room and play woodwind ensemble. I used to love doing that.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:14 PM
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5. Jazz Ensemble
Non Artsy: Constitutional Law
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:14 PM
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6. Romantic Poets.
It was one of the toughest, but one of the best English courses I took in college.
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adriennel Donating Member (776 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:15 PM
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7. English, english, english!
literature & poetry mostly, in both high school and college. I finished my English major early in college and actually received a letter from the university stating I would not receive credit for taking more english classes! So I began work on a History major, which I previously had no interest in--it was the work of a fine History professor that got me interested.
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mede8er Donating Member (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:23 PM
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8. Counseling Procedures......
Hands on, no holds barred Master's level.......
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Semi_subversive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:30 PM
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9. American Literature
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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:33 PM
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10. History
or Music.
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:46 PM
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11. Lunch
the only subject I passed. Ha ha ha
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:51 PM
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12. Ooh, that's a toss-up
Between choir, calculus, and german... yeah, I'm weird :P
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:00 PM
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18. I married someone like you!
You are not weird. Everyone else is.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:06 PM
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19. Well thanks :)
Nice to know there are other people like me out there, LOL :D
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:53 PM
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13. Constitutional Law
I would get up at 3:30am to read case law for that day's class. Prep time per class was enormous and, if you weren't prepared on ALL the cases, you stood an excellent chance of being utterly humiliated in front of 15-20 of your peers.

By the way, the professor who taught me Constitutional Law was named John Quincy Adams! Unbelievable!
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ronatchig Donating Member (350 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:56 PM
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14. Latin I&II in HS
It was great. A very wonderful lady taught it, Twilla Dowd, made it a facinating puzzle everyday. We even workrd on speaking Latin just for fun.
I also found Geometry and Trig were very good also.

In college , Poli Sci was good but I think Biology was the best. It was where I was introduced to the language of God -DNA-.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:57 PM
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15. Biology of the fungi...
...with Marine Geology as a close runner up, but only because I had a secret crush on the professor and a good handle on ocean chemistry.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 04:57 PM
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16. Photography/graphic arts
Database programming was my 2nd favorite.

Notice how both jobs are low paying. :-)
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:00 PM
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17.  College: an elective: "History of the New South"
I learned so much in that class.

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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 07:22 PM
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23. As a young, southern guy (1975) with some preconceived ideas
History of the New South was a total eye-opener. V. O. Keys book, The Mind of the South, though nearly 60 years old by now, is still a masterpiece.

If you want to understand the south, you must study the people, the history and the culture. Glad you took the time.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:07 PM
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20. English
Also History and Chemistry.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 05:13 PM
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21. Physics
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 05:14 PM by TrogL
I loved the year-end project. I'd turn in the damndest things and leave the teacher to scratch his head. Usually he'd say "I'm giving you an A because I have no idea what you're talking about."

Best projects:

A binary to decimal converter constructed out of perfboard, razor blades, lever switches, rusty nails, light bulbs, plastic ruler, a model train transformer and an absolute rats-nest of telephone wire. Didn't work properly because the train transformer put out AC (which I didn't discover until 30 years later). 40 page owners manual consisting primarily of symbolic logic diagrams.

Four blurry photographs and 30 pages of mathematics proving that it's pretty much worthless to try an estimate the speed of an object by the blur on its protograph. When the teacher handed it back he looked frightened.
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Penndems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:17 PM
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24. United States History, and State and Local Politics in college
Hey, I was a Poli-Sci major. :)

In high school, it was English and Journalism (I wrote for my school paper). Majored in Broadcast Journalism in college in the early 1970's before dropping out after my freshman year (went back 14 years later; hence the poli-sci major.)

I wanted to be the next Walter Cronkite, or the next Woodward and Bernstein.
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