The Hardest Degree?

[TW]Fox;10575567 said:
That depends on what you mean by Maths.
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shifty_uk said:
:p By maths I meant the ability to undertake complex calculations along with a wide understanding and knowledge of mathematics. :)(
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As said above, I'm not great at mathematics(difficult calculations beyond adding/subtracting), but the likes of commercial banking sounds quite appealing to me. Would you recommend your course to someone in my position? As said, I'm just looking at options, and the various courses on offer. :)
 
If you can use a calculator, then you'll be fine. Thats the extent of the maths in MOST finance applications although obviously the ability to do it in your head on the fly will seperate people ;)
 
iraiguana said:
Chemistry by a long way to be honest. Met many a medic who is a muppet, and maths you can either see it or you cant.
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Work load maybe. Each day was 9-5 solid except Wednesdays, and a lot of hard work in the final year.

Dont think you need to be bright to do it though, im living proof of that. Personally I always thought languages hard and the fact you have to spend a substaintial time in a foreign country learning the lingo must be fairly daunting, and I suspect you need to have the right personality to pull it off.
 
Dont know about Degrees but NVQ3 in Networking at west cheshire college is a hell hard, considering you knw more than the teachers when you start.
 
Duff-Man said:
Philospohy :eek:

Do you know anyone who has done a philosophy degree? Of course I can't judge the difficulty of the concepts, but workload wise it seems very light.
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lol i know a guy on a physics and philosophy course :p

He's doing work right now :D
 
[TW]Fox;10575567 said:
That depends on what you mean by Maths. A lot of what I've done so far at Uni has been finance related (Including my placement) and whilst it's almost all about numbers, the actual maths rarely ever extends beyond adding, subtracting, fractions and percentages.
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Whereas an actual Maths degree has very little to do with numbers really!

I always loved the fact that they said calculators weren't allowed in any exams, when they wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference anyway!
 
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shifty_uk said:
:p By maths I meant the ability to undertake complex calculations along with a wide understanding and knowledge of mathematics. :)

I know what I want to study at Uni, although I was looking alternatives, just incase I decide after my gap year that I no longer wish to study the chosen subject. So, a business/commercial banking/finance related degree seemed appealing, but I'm not brilliant with numbers, especially during my school years. :(
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In that case Finance probably has quite a lot of maths. The reason I say that it is not "real" maths is because in a pure maths degree you do no calculations, you just prove things! Funnily, I have less numbers in my degree than pretty much every other degree you can do.

Whether you prefer "real" maths or calculations is just a preference though, and I would not wish the maths I do upon anyone who wasn't interested.. including myself!
 
shifty_uk said:
As said above, I'm not great at mathematics(difficult calculations beyond adding/subtracting), but the likes of commercial banking sounds quite appealing to me. Would you recommend your course to someone in my position? As said, I'm just looking at options, and the various courses on offer. :)
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Oh, and don't worry about maths in banking, having done a summer of it last year, I can vouch for the fact that other than some of the more complex derivatives there is very little maths in banking (and even then, the maths behind a lot of those financial instruments is scarily dubious!).
 
Very interested to see the votes for chemical engineering. I didn't think it was well known but I certainly had more work, and more difficult work than any of my friends and that included physics, chemistry students and 2 medical students.

The effort pays off very well though, especially at the moment
 
I'm convinced it has to be something related to theoretical physics, touching on subjects like cosmology, quantum mechanics and suchlike. The more mind-boggling the better really.
 
Law? Rocket Surgery? :D The thing is, different people are good at different things... I find Audio Tech pretty easy, while others don't get on so well with it...

I find degree maths hard, yet others have a natural talent for it...

I guess you could bust out some statistics and see what degree gets the lowest grades on average?
 
Studying Mandarin Chinese and Classical Chinese (translating original Confucian/Mencian texts etc) is pretty damn tricky. Vastly different character sets and grammar doesn't help when you have exams on consecutive days either.

I wont say it's the hardest out there, but I feel something needs doing to balance the science/maths overload :p
 
Maths is pretty tough especially if you're aiming for 1st. Just attending all the lectures, example classes and doing the assignments isn't enough and will get you at the very most a 2:1, if your lucky.

The actual work isn't too bad, it's the hours of mental masturbation and hopeless hair pulling that is hardest. So unless you completely understood what was said in the lectures, you have to spend an extra few hours going over what you took down from the lecture before you can even begin to apply it.

That said, when you've finally solved a problem or proved something on your own, it can be very rewarding. Even the process of understanding a particular concept can be fufilling and feels sort of refreshing in a weird way, like unblocking a cloggy nose or something, lol.
 
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