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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I loved statics and dynamics. Those were my favorite courses. I even took advanced dynamics as an elective and really enjoyed it. We had another course in materials that I liked a lot, too, where you looked at how materials bend and collapse.
I really wasn't into the chemistry-type courses, though, like thermodynamics and the basic chemistry courses. We had to take a circuitry course that was all I needed there, too.
I think I liked the courses where I could physically envision what was happening and wasn't into the courses where I couldn't.
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I was pretty good at chemistry, despite me completely hating the entire subject. When I initially took college chemistry, they had a pre-test the first week, and anybody who passed the pre-test had the option to take honors chemistry, which was one semester of chem that counted at credits for chem1 and chem2 both. It was intense, but I got through it with plenty of work/study. But Thermodynamics though, that one was my Achilles...
My favorite courses were the programming/logic related ones. I was in a group robotics course where a team of 5 of us would write code that made a little robot act as a drink-serving butler in a crowd of people, using IR to scan the room and identify a person, then approach and offer a drink while maintaining safe distance, and retain which people in the crowd it had served/etc. Loved the programming and coding courses like that. At my time, I started with Basic, then Pascal, then C++. Nobody knows how to code these days though. Really tough to hire a computer tech with coding experience these days.