Ever had a most hated subject when you were in school?
By super_jj
@super_jj (1416)
Philippines
October 20, 2008 7:51pm CST
Everybody has a favorite subject in school. But i'm intrested on the suject you hate most. I know i had one. Heheheheheheehe.
when i was in grade school and highschool, there's only one subject i'd rather sleep through: Filipino (i think that's the Language subject for other countries). Here in the Philippines, it's the subject where we study our national language. It's not really that hard, it's just that i hate dissecting Tagalog sentences. The senetence usually are verrrrrrrry long, and most of the words have repeating syllables (mamamayan, bararila, ginagawa). It really frustrates me when we're asked to read tagalog stories. I do understand and can speak tagalog, but reading it gives me coma. It'll take me more than ah hour just reading a 1-page tagalog story. but if somebody reads it for me (which my mom totally discouraged), it's quite a breeze answering questions about the story. I usually listen in when my classmates read so i wont have to read by myself
I really hated it that much that i almost got kicked out when i was in high school because my grade in Filipino suffered coz i was always either late or absent in my Filipino class. Heehee. I got a grade below cut-off (82.5 to be exact, 0.5 below what we were supposed to mentain), good thing by some miracle i was able to recover and maintain my grade. Heehee!
So, any subject you really hate? What's it like?
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
Oh I love Pilipino subject. I could perfect the tests on that subject my dear! I also love poetry in Pilipino. I could remember those days I would recite poems during school programs! I love it!
My my most-hated subject is Mathematics. This subject is the reason why I never got the First Honor in the class. I was always just a poor second. I was never ever able to grab the first honor even for once because I was not very good in Mathematics. I was not that poor but this was the subject where my grades were not so high. While I could perfect the other subjects...mathematics only give me average scores. Hayyy! Why the hell all those complicated formulas have to be studied. Now that I am working and making good money in my job... I never ever remembered that I used those formulas in my work. Never! So what is the use of studying all those formula and all complicated and head breaking computations! What is the use when we have calculators around. We don't even need to compute manually? Ohhh! I'm angry but just a little! Ha!ha!ha!
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
Ha!ha!ha!ha! What a big laugh I had with what you said! Soooo funny but soooo true! I wish those senators and congressmen will do something to push changes in our educational system. I've learned from a friend in Canada that his kids love the school system there. They don't spend so much time in the school because there are no unnecessary subjects. The subjects are lesser and they only focused on the important ones. they are giving the kids enjoyable time in schooling instead of burdening them with so many unnecessary things to study and memorize. Look how progressive Canada is as compared to the Philippines.
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@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
Come to think of it, ask everyone who ever went to school and they'd complain about one thing: why study complex subjects we cant even apply to our daily lives? I've asked the same question, my clasmates asked the same question, my nephew complained that all the time, my mom asked that also once in her lifetime, my dad groaned with that complaint once in his lifetime,my uncles and aunts too, and my cousins, and i'm pretty sure my grandparents had the same complaint. But every year, school subjects become harder and harder. What's the deal with that? Can impossibly difficult school subjects save the economy? CAn it stop population explosion? Stop terorism? Help the environment? save the endangered species? Save the world? I guess not. It doesnt even save a single life. I've never heard of kidnappers aking for a very elaborate Filipino peom as ransom for their captive. Terorists did not ask their victims to solve 2x+4z(5-x)=y to save thir lives. Or holpuppers ask their victims to balance a chemical equation.
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@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
Hehehehehe. It just go me ranting. Yeah, the school system in CAnada, the States, Europ, adn Australia is way different from our school system here. Our students here are soooooo burdened with unnecessary subjects. Even in college. I've got friends who were Engineering students but were required to take Speech courses What, an engineer has to have a speechb choir when proposing his building projects? And nursing students who were required to take Fine Arts classes So nurses have to understand the ar tistic qualities of Mona Lisa while inserting IVs to their patients. Obviously, our schools here are doing great business.
@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
12 Nov 08
I hated Geography when I was back in school, a subject which I don't even have a slightest interest in, and was forced to take. What made it worse was that we have a totally boring teacher who believed in just reading from the textbook and talking down to us like we are 6 year old kids. That by itself kills off whatever little interest I have in that subject.
The thing is that I was taking History when I was 15 and was supposed to continue with it till I take my GCE 'O' levels examination. But, fate intervenes and I was forced to drop off History and take up Geography instead as I was transferred out of my class and my new class did not have History as a subject! This was very bad news for me as at that point of time, I flunked my Geography and had scored very good grades (A1) in my History. But, I was forced to drop off a subject that I was good in, and take up one that I was failing miserably in.
Nevertheless, the love between me and Geography was never there and had never grown in that 4 years that I took the subject. In fact, it just makes me hate the subject more and more and I will fall asleep each time the Geography teacher starts to talk in her monotonous voice.
Till now, I am wondering however did I pass my Geography and get a decent grade during my 'O' levels. That grade had left me scratching my head for ages and till today 5 years later, i still do not have an answer for that.
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@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
13 Nov 08
Never did see the link between the both of them. Lol, geography is the study of the earth and its landscape.. but history is about the past. Furthermore, history is more of facts but geography is ever changing. It's unfortunate but I have got over it. It's been more than 8 years already.
@Munchkin547 (2778)
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21 Oct 08
The subject i really hated at school was geography, i found it soooo boring! i don't really know why, i think i expected it to be about different countries and stuff but it was all about tectonic plates and the water cycle, not my cup of tea at all!!! I begged my teacher to put me in the lower set as i was adamant i hated it and was rubbish at it, but he wouldn't let me, and thank goodness he did because i ended up getting an A! am still really glad i never have to do geography again though! xxx
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@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
I like geography. World geography. I can memorize and am quite familiar with a lot of different countries and their cities and locations, but i couldnt quite pipoint some cities in my own country. Heheheheh. But i do like geography. Must be because i love to travel.
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@Munchkin547 (2778)
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22 Oct 08
I like the sort of geography that is all about places around the world, because like you i love to travel, but the geography i did at school was nothing like that!! xxx
@don_naces (464)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
I do not have any hated subjects. My parents always remind that I should love all my subjects as much as possible. I tried to treat all my subjects fairly. I have the most hated teacher. That was our adviser in Filipino subject. My grades in that subjects are very low and unbelievable. It was the easiest. The reason why I got low grade in that subject is that I am not the teacher's favorite.
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@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
21 Oct 08
math. very very boring. hello what's this? oh its a calculator. Oh yeah that's right this magic numbers box allows me to figure out these problems before its too late. Oh and to the kids in school watching the videos about how math will be useful in life. Lies. I am now 30. Sure I use some basic math, but other than that. No. You're not going to use most of that crap ever. My suggestion to you. Take the time to get some much needed sleep.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
21 Oct 08
For me that would definitely have to be Physics, I hated physics with a passion it used to bore me so much that I would actually fall asleep, the teacher made it ten times worse because he didn't inject any life into the subject and I couldn't wait to drop it, I couldn't bet bothered to do any work and I remembered always being told off for not handing in homework which I had no interest in doing.
@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
Yeah, my physics teacher in highschool was very boring, too. I used to sit at the back of the class and just talk with my friends and it seems that she really didnt care if we were listening to her or not, she'd just ramble on and on and on, and then writes endless formulas and equations on the board. My friends and i used to wish she'd do cartwheels or break dance in the middle of the class so she'd be less boring. But i loved physics in college. Our teacher was so animated! He'd suddenly push his chair to the floor to explain gravity! He'd throw stuff around the room, do crazy stuff, anything just so he can show us how the theories work.
@flagella08 (5065)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
i hate filipino nad chemistry way back in high school and college. now i haulted hating things and stuff because they usually became part of me. now im into the filipino and chemistry world. i was tasked to teach filipino and chemistry as well. hay life!
@bdugas (3578)
• United States
21 Oct 08
English, I hated it, was not interested in it, I could of cared less what part of a sentence was what past a verb and a noun. I know you need English in your whole life. I was more interested in Science and Math. So now I don't know proper English, but I do ok, I guess. I think I made F's in it and I didn't care.
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@sdmoonchild (731)
• United States
21 Oct 08
My most hated subject in school was science, it didn't matter what kind, general or chemistry, I hated science-still do. It was never something that I was interested in -failed it miserably in school.
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@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
physics is one of the science subjects i hated wayback in high school..i just don't get it.. i also hate filipino since our teacher requires us to photocopy every story we read in our book and asks us to color the pictures using crayons... she's such a weirdo.. we were like grade school students doing the art attack thingy ;p
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@stryker5 (52)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Math was my most hated subject. After grade school, I could not seem to grasp it. I went to tutoring and everything and struggled with it all through the rest of school.
When I went to college, I started taking the most basic math course offered thinking this would help. Wrong!!! Still couldn't grasp algebra and all that.
The funny thing, I am 33 now and have to help my kids with their math homework and now, I finally get it!! I still have my math books from my college years and often refer to them to help with my kids homework. Why didn't I understand all this years ago? Guess it just wasn't my time or I was so frustrated with it that I in all honesty, I gave up on ever understandng it.
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
I really don't like math. It's so hard to understand. I do well enough but I don't enjoy it. Plus, I have to slave through homework and do so many practice sets before I get the point. I don't like Filipino too I think it's a waste of time. I also hate it when the teacher makes you learn grammar-related stuff because no one really uses it nowadays. i think the kind of Filipino being in taught in schools will be obsolete 10 years from now. :P
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@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
the subject i hated most wayback in gradeschool was Math.. because my teacher was a terror.. i remember her throwing eraser and pieces of chalk to students who aren't paying attention.. she likes to shout at students and even make crazy gestures to scare us.. a monster teacher indeed..;p
@Mistgun (9)
• Czech Republic
21 Oct 08
I think it all depends on the professor. Because of our professor I really hate biology now. We are learning about human body so i know it can be useful, but omg, why so many latin words and scientific phrases :/
Besides I think I am after all humanistic type xP
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@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
I do hate and I mean hate one subject before. It doesn't bore me but it somehow challenge me the way I don't want to be challenge. The instructor is one hell of a woman and you don't want to messed up with her. And the subject is freaking everybody out every time we come in to our room.
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@momforwork (161)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
Hi there super_jj...
Its not something I'd want the world to know but I may be guilty of having more hated subjects than not when I was in school. It wasn't probably just because the subject was hard to begin with...but the teacher leaves much to be desired with too. I mean, lets take Chemistry...with all the symbols, weights, elements, lab experiments, formulae and a whole lot of other stuff...does it have to take a heard of wild horses to kick up some "***" so this 2:00 class would be less boring...*@#!%^&...really!!! ;) Then there is Filipino...ooopppsss, I can stand as patriotic as I can beside any Filipino...but when it comes to reading and writing in the vernacular...I think I can leave that to those well-endowed. Conjugating a tagalog verb leaves me in the dog house...hehehehe...and Ginang xxx or Maestrang xxx were surely no one to mess around with.
Well, those were SOME days...and as life sets out those "favorite" subjects of mine would hunt me in my tutoring days with my kids...ahh that reminds me...where's my husband?!?! my son needs tutoring in Filipino...thank God for good husbands...:).
Happy mylotting...
@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
Hahahahaha! I love Chemistry. Must be because our teacher was great, she made it so easy dealing with chemicals. I'd say it's how the teacher hanldes the subjects that lead us to love or hate the subject. I can agree with you about Filipino, though. I'm not a native tagalog speaker (i'm Bisaya), but i can definitely understand tagalog on tv. And i can speak tagalog, too, although my tongue's quite hard at it. Hehehe. But i really dont see why we have to dissect the sentences. Sheesh.
@modstar (9605)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
I really, really hate trigonometry. I hated my teacher and i hated the subject when i was in college. I still hate it up to this day. I just don't understand a thing about trigonometry. Besides, the calculator is too complicated to me. The sines, the cosines. I can't even spell it right!
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@PrincessThinker (234)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
hi.
When I was in grade four my sister used to teach me Mathematics. But my teacher was always absent or is not consistent with what she teaches. Today it is the answer and I got it wrong, the next day the answer that I chose yesterday to be wrong is now the correct one. I really hated that. It is not the subject that I hated but the teacher till such time I hated Math until now. It is my fault. I should have continued with my passion with Mathematics and should not have allowed to be affected by some confused teacher.
I also have a bad experience with that Filipino subject. The teacher gave me 85 in my classcard but when I took my Official Transcript of Records, she gave 75. When told it to the Registrar, she said she will honor the master grade list submitted by the teacher, not the classcard which also bore that teacher's signature.
It is unfair for me and at the same time absurd.
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