Poll of the Day > What was your favorite subject in high school?

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What was your favorite class?

Geometry and Precalculus. Got the same teacher on purpose. Not sure it's ToS to explain the rest. Fuck yeah.

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english
writing was a hobby for me back then so english classes were incredibly easy

Math. As I love math. Also, certain teachers made certain classes better. And friends in certain classes made some better, as well...

I liked science and math. If I had to pick one class I'd probably say chemistry. Biology and physics could've been contenders if they had better teachers

Oh AP psychology was good too despite the teacher being a fundie nutjob

Math. I like everything about English except writing essays which brings it down a lot for me

Physics. I teach it now.

Sciences, especially Chemistry and Biology. Also enjoyed Psychology classes.

Hard to say. I was always a kind of paradoxical kid, because while I loved learning, I kind of hated classes in general. A combination of bad teachers, an iron-clad curriculum, and simultaneously rushing through topics while also having to slow the whole process down so the worst students could keep up usually made classes boring at best and torturous at worst. I learned way better when I just did my own research on loads of topics in my own free time.

Not helped by the fact that, if I thought a teacher was an asshole, I tended to shut down and become obstructionist and anti-authoritarian and just started fucking with them. While generally not doing any homework but still passing tests so they couldn't justify failing me. Those teachers almost certainly hated me.

Teachers I respected tended to love me, though. Which always led me to wonder if any of those teachers ever talked about me in the teachers' lounge and realized they had radically different opinions of me, and if they ever tried to figure out precisely why I treated some teachers like shit and others not (but that would have required introspection from apathetic disillusioned asshats who were terrible at their job but hid behind tenure, so probably not).

I probably had the most fun in my Graphics Arts classes (basically sort of a hybrid computer class mixed with desktop publishing where you could work on art projects or semi-professional jobs), mainly because those were mostly just self-guided fuck-arounds where I spent most of my time playing computer games. Or working on my own projects (which was arguably the beginning of a lot of my later writing and web design activity in college and afterwards). Psychology was another favorite class (and is part of what led me into majoring in it in college), but I almost hesitate to call it a "subject" because I only had one year of it in high school.

Other than that... gym was actually enjoyable when we could do solo work and not group team games (which I hated) - in my later high school years I was able to spend most of my time in the weight room or using the school track (which worked in tandem with the fact that I was running on the track team at the time). Though I did kind of enjoy when we got to play volleyball (because I was very good at it). Ironically, I got better at sports like soccer and hockey while in college - if I'd been better at them sooner, I'd probably have enjoyed gym even more.

History was always interesting, but rarely so the way it was taught in school (and it didn't help that high school classes tended to focus on US history, which I've always found incredibly boring - I find antiquity to be a much more interesting period). Same with Science (though hands on labwork in Chemistry and Physics was kind of fun). English should have been fun in theory (I loved reading and did it for my own enjoyment constantly), but the literature they picked to study always seemed to be stuff I was never really interested in, and grammar lessons were generally presented in ways that made them dry and boring. I absolutely loathed Math, though (mainly because of the fact that the absolute worst shit-tier teachers I ever had always seemed to be the math teachers, and it discouraged me from ever pursuing any career in a STEM field that would require math in any way).

Forced "vocational" classes tended to be meh at best - stuff like Home Ec, Cooking, Sewing never interested me at all, and stuff like Art or Music always felt less engaging because being artistic with other people judging your work sucked the fun out of it. I was terrible at shop classes (I've never been all that mechanically inclined), though my Architectural Design class was fun (and actually encouraged my best friend to later pursue a career in Drafting/CAD).

The only other class/subject I can remember taking was French, which I wasn't super-great at or enthusiastic about (though I was good enough to be in the French Honor Society). I always had a much easier time reading it than speaking it, and I never really mastered the knack of understanding it intuitively (kind of necessary to hold conversations) as opposed to essentially translating it as you go (which is a much slower process). I made it as far as AP French V, but never bothered taking the AP test because I was pretty sure I was going to fail it.

I probably enjoyed Grade 11 and 12 math the most. there was also Grade 12 computers, but I already knew enough that I just plowed through the content in half the time and spent the rest of the semester making a small game. (sounds fun but I didn't really learn anything the whole class, and the other students didn't exactly like my over-performance.)

English / Literature

I dont remember the class name, but it was art

All I did was trace comics, enlarge them, divide into shapes and cut them into the corresponding colors and put them pack together

Easy pass, plus it was the last class of the week and closest room to the school exit, so I'd have my bag packed ready to fly out once the bell rang.. sometimes even sneaking out a few minutes beforehand

What was your favorite subject in high school?

Maybe art? Those were nice for being self-guided.

MrMelodramatic posted...

What was your favorite class?

Lunch.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Hard to say. I was always a kind of paradoxical kid, because while I loved learning, I kind of hated classes in general.

Structure often sucks the fun out of learning, especially since the context of a classroom makes it feel like a chore.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

A combination of bad teachers, an iron-clad curriculum, and simultaneously rushing through topics while also having to slow the whole process down so the worst students could keep up usually made classes boring at best and torturous at worst.

Public education is generally awful. To make it even worse, you have some politicians protest against education tracks, arguing that it makes natural disparities worse -- a stark reminder Vonnegut was on the money, since you have politicians looking toward "Harrison Bergeron" as inspiration.

I don't think they have this subject anymore - but Study Hall.

I got to just chill and read books.

Lunch

english definitely. it was so fucking easy.

In general it was History. Though my favorite class specifically was Physics because the teacher was awesome.

I hated English, but it was really easy and I had some fun subverting the teacher's intentions on writing assignments.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Other than that... gym was actually enjoyable when we could do solo work and not group team games (which I hated) - in my later high school years I was able to spend most of my time in the weight room or using the school track (which worked in tandem with the fact that I was running on the track team at the time). Though I did kind of enjoy when we got to play volleyball (because I was very good at it). Ironically, I got better at sports like soccer and hockey while in college - if I'd been better at them sooner, I'd probably have enjoyed gym even more.

I actually really liked gym, too.
Like you, I'd try to use the weight room instead of whatever group sport they were doing. I also love badminton and would "duel" the gym teachers.
Basically, I only liked it in HS b/c they let you generally go do whatever the fuck you wanted as long as it was exercise. Unlike middle school...

History was always interesting, but rarely so the way it was taught in school (and it didn't help that high school classes tended to focus on US history, which I've always found incredibly boring - I find antiquity to be a much more interesting period).

Yeah. I love history, but we spent way too much time on U.S. history and so little on world history and like... pre-1700's in general. I did a lot of learning on my own. It's still genuinely fucking sad to me that I had to learn of Nicola Tesla from Command & Conquer: Red Alert and our textbooks lied to us and credited Marconi as the inventor of the radio.

It's a tie between music and Japanese for me.

Trigonometry

I think it was math and science.

Geometry.

Gym and outdoor living.

Hard to say for me.

French would be one - I liked the teacher because she made it interesting and fun.

In my senior year, English was a blast because the teacher was a laugh riot. I also enjoyed Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry because the teacher made it look so easy.

Chemistry.

I was an athlete so I didn't need to take gym.

Science

History and English.

Bilingual program. I could communicate with new friends by the time I completed it.

Computer Science (obviously), mostly because the teacher was cool, the class was relatively small (only about 10-15 people on average) and a lot of the classmates in the later classes remain some of my friends today. All of us in the AP class pretty much still work in the Software Engineering field today.

Physics because my teacher kicked ass.

English/Literature

Art and Cultural Anthropology

I always liked the core classes but I had a ptsd breakdown halfway through high school and my enjoyment of school went down the drain with my mental health, lol.

Favorite? Um... probably history. I'd consider literature but I honestly didn't like a lot of the books we had to read and my lack of access to a computer during those years impacted the quality of my work in lit, unfortunately. Science enjoyment depended too much on who your lab partner was, and I only ever had one math teacher I liked in high school.

Buncha nerds

Going home
Hated school with a burning passion and have not come close to missing a minute of it since Ive been out.
Wouldnt even go back in time to recapture my youth if it meant I had to do it again.
Graduated with honors and didnt even try.
Hands down, the worst experience of my life.
13 years of excruciating boredom surrounded by people I wouldnt take to a dog fight!

bshwalker posted...

13 years of excruciating boredom surrounded by people I wouldnt take to a dog fight!

Let's calm down a bit, Mr. Vick.

Shop or French for advanced speakers for the cutest girls.

Psychology 102 was my favorite subject to learn.

AP Bio for the teacher.

Sage_assassin20 posted...

Shop or French for advanced speakers for the cutest girls.

Finally an answer that speaks to me

Art or music. I still like those things now although I've never had the patience to actually learn how to play a instrument.