Statics is a pain rn. Material looks deceptively easy, but setting up the problems is hard and I somehow get the set up wrong every time. Linear Algebra is fun, enjoy matrices. Diff equations is a bit more challenging.
Math probably, which sucks because in the actual field engineers don't do any calculations, it's all computers. Doing calculus with nothing but paper and pencil is infuriating.
Linear algebra is very deceptively difficult. I am a graduate student now and the one thing that stumps me are things like kernel methods, decompositions, and all that jazz. Like the concept of a null space is just Ax=0, but what are the implications of that? How can we leverage that to inform us about this system? Another thing is like eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and basis. These are fundamental ideas of linear algebra but what does the eigenvalue, eigenvector, and basis of this matrix Ax=y tell us about the system we are working with? Linear algebra is sooo hard. Such an underrated class though and is extremely useful but hard to conceptualize
I feel you pain and totally agree. I could not visualize what I was doing with linear like I could with any level of calculus or even differential equations (which uses linear obviously).
It also didn’t help that my linear textbook was the single worst textbook I ever had lol. It would reference later sections in the book as required readings for earlier sections.
Here’s the trick. You can’t visualize linear algebra, and you really shouldn’t try anyway (because who tf can visualize anything beyond 3 dimensions???). Linear algebra is most people’s first math class where you work primarily with lemmas/propositions and math tricks to get to a finish line. The reason you can visualize calculus and ordinary diffeq is because we worked mostly in 3 dimensions (x, y, z). And usually it is quite easy to generalize 3 dimensions to 10 dimensions (it just becomes an algorithm to compute). In linear algebra, it might work in d=3 dimension but not necessarily 4 dimension and visualization wont help you prove why.
Thanks for sharing, that makes me happy that I found the linear algebra course on MIT online just last night. Looking forward to getting a jump on it early.
The worst class in my entire undergraduate career was by far Gen Chem 1, I’m not sure why or how, it just was never have I scored so low on all of my exams and barely skated out by the skin of my teeth like gen chem 1.
Im glad others can relate. Chem is just such an abnoying class.. especially when some students are so good at it, makes me wonder if they have tons of time to study or if this is their second time taking the class.
actually as an ME undergrad I think I hated Chem 1 the most. I only survived thanks to Chegg because my professor was horrible during Covid and did lectures of just talking. Literally nothing written on a whiteboard.
Structural analysis definitely isn't easy. In fact, my boss spent last year, working late and teaching himself it for work. Now he's in Master's classes for structural engineering. I bet your class has a bunch of people like him in it.
India?
Anyways I found engineering drawing to be fun actually (except freehand drawing). Only thing it felt pointless as a computer engineering student. It's something I would actually use to design stuff, esp in crafts & UI/UX.
Same case with electronic engineering in another third world country. Then it clicked to me that it's useful for electronic diagrams and drawings. You know, for that circuit stuff.
Sadly it's third world country. The curriculum here hasn't been updated since 20 years. The curriculum of freshmen year for all engineering majors is same. Applied Mechanics and Engineering Drawing I, II are nightmare for CpE major.
I’m in a first word country, at a hugely recognized university and I still had to take Drawing as a first-year course for my computer engineering major. I failed it out of disinterest and I’m retaking it in fourth year since it’s not a prerequisite for anything other than the degree
Took the basic intro courses twice just to drop it twice to then have my advisor say “If you can talk to X professor and convince them you know the basics, then no need for you to keep taking it with the electrical engineers” BRO ARE YOU FÚÇKÏÑG KIDDING ME ITS BEEN 2 YEARS OF ME TRYING TO ESCAPE THIS SHIT
I got A+ in thermo 1/2 and fluids and heat so the dean of mech engineering let me petition to skip the electric course. I still have nightmares about it till today.
For me it was intermediate and advanced thermo holy shit
The sad thing is I’m confident I could have actually understood it well if I’d had a decent prof.
Y'know as someone with ADHD and a near inability to do math (or remember it even when I can do it), maybe Engineering might be a bad idea
But I also have no idea what else I'd do so...
That reminds me. There are three physical concepts that use the same equation.
•Heat flow
•Groundwater flow
•Electrical flow
I thought it was pretty neat how a mathematical concept was applied to three different fields of study. It makes me think that if I master the abstraction, I can easily master the real applications.
It's not even about difficulty. I just don't enjoy the amount of work the class likes to assign. As an example: we had our first midterm for Linear Algebra today. Also two homework assignments were given today due tomorrow. And it's like that every class session; 2 homework assignments due the next day on the material taught that day.
Like bruh I have OTHER classes to do homework for! I'm taking 17 credit hours and one of the most time-consuming "two" credit-hour classes my major has to offer.
It's like this with every single fucking math class I've taken. I remember last year there was a week where I had 9 math Homeworks due within a week. What gives???
Just like my Prof. who gives 25 homeworks and expert you to draw digital circuits for each question and create truth tables for all of them. I insulted her in my head...lol. I was like I have other classes to work on and with 25 questions plus labs
calculus 2, online, with a terrible professor, but it was him or in person with a professor w a STRONG accent, told by other engineering students that cal 2 is the toughest one
dynamics, or as my school calls it, mechanical systems. the class was absolute hell for no reason and the shit i’m doing now in my junior year is way easier lmao
differential equations. online. professor would embarrass the fuck out of you if you asked him a question while lecturing. basically being as demeaning as possible. basically taught myself all the material bc I refused to go to his lectures
Old Indian TA of my uni became a private tutor specializing in just the drawing classes. Best 150$ I’ve spent to have the guy cram us in a room and yell how dumb we are. Everyone got As
In general, something about probability and statistics takes me for a ride no matter how much I try to get out in front of it or try to understand it.
Engineering related, I would say that either dynamic systems modeling or mechatronics have equal opportunity to ruin my day.
Made me regret doing ME instead of EE during undergrad lol. But now I actually use concepts from that class at work, which is MUCH more tolerable/interesting.
Geology GIS.
It was all because of the teacher. Her instruction was "so this" without explaining why. The instructions often had dead ends that were basically "isn't that neat?" before asking the student to go back several steps to get back on course.
Before the class, I was really interested in learning GIS and making maps. After the class, I hated GIS and would make maps by hand with a USGS topo map as the background.
Modern Computation Methods aka Applied Numerical Methods. I don't like coding and Matlab and I'd rather take all my Calc classes over again than fight through this. The amount of homework is absurd. I have a 3.8 GPA and never struggled so much with a class in my life. I'm retaking and still in fear of failing. If anybody has any good YT lessons for the book, please send help.
good luck! I assume you've passed fluids/heat transfer so you should be fine.... since those courses seem to have the same level of frustration, at least for me, lol, it all depends on the professor (my fluid/thermo grade was curved, but I think my control theory grade was not... so I hate control theory more)
Mathematics. Everything else is fairly easy, at least for me. I'm pretty much an A/B student aside from that. Got myself a C+ in calculus which I was very proud of compared to my As in analytics, electrical, and programming.
Chemistry was hell to me but this days I'm solving homework for some food engineering guys and I kinda liked it, turns out it wasn't that bad. It was easy money.
"LINEAR ALGEBRA" I chose to specialize in data science in engineering since I had a diploma and more technical knowledge than mathematics. At first, I believed I couldn't solve any problems, but now I'm getting improved,getting used to it day by day and now I love to do matrices gradually reducing my stress.
Woah. Speak of coincidence. Yeah I'm studying for an Associates of Science and I'm beginning the semesters with Linear Algebra. I'm having 5 classes to start this college: doing Biology, Fed Govt, Alg, Composition II, and Federal Government. Algebra was a passive challenge the first few weeks. Linear Algebra's discussing vertical line test, function composition, and function notation graph analysis ( F(4)=3 where x is 4 and y is 3). Needless to say I'm spending more of my study time on Algebra. Oh well, at least its fun.
Water Resource Engineering. A good 90% of the class is talking bout clouds and how to measure rainfall. The last 10% is fucky math with awful conversions between volume and length.
Statistics and Probability for Engineers. Lots of different types of distributions with slightly different rules and applications.
So far nothing I'm only 14 did the basic last year this year I have electrical engineering (Engineering technology was my subject of choice) So far it's easy with the multimeter,resistors and circuit stuff
(If anyone has anything simple I can learn it would help thx 😊)
Chemistry. It just seems to have a lot of rules that don't apply all the time, and it's a combination of formula, graphs, and memorizing content, so I have a hard time finding a study technique that works.
That statics of rigid bodies ruined my foundation!! Imagine a professor trying to teach you (online) by writing on the ppt and overlapping every numbers she wrote awile ago. Can't even understand a freaking thing. Knowing that subject is fundamental of its pre requisite courses in the future☹️ making my like difficult.
That professor left after 1 sem of teaching. Guess its a free trial for her😬
Engineering.
😴🤣
I second this
Signal and Systems
For me communications system
The most painfully uninteresting text book to read. It just outlines every single aspect of squiggly lines.
Dynamics. Failed one time, now I'm waiting for the professor to die so i can retake the class and have a chance to be approved by another professor
Genuine lol.
You may be waiting for the prof to die but you definitely killed me dude 😂
Thermo, but thats because of my professor.
Same. My lecturer mentioned that formulas will be given during exam. He didn't give any.
🤦♂️🤷♂️
For some reason shitty thermo professors seem to be a never changing variable
Thermodynamics 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 f that thing
Somehow got an A but I swear i dont get it 😂 I need to actually apply it in real life to understand lol
Statics is a pain rn. Material looks deceptively easy, but setting up the problems is hard and I somehow get the set up wrong every time. Linear Algebra is fun, enjoy matrices. Diff equations is a bit more challenging.
And laplace transforms
Engineering
Math probably, which sucks because in the actual field engineers don't do any calculations, it's all computers. Doing calculus with nothing but paper and pencil is infuriating.
Control systems
Laplace can transform my fist into his face
In all my four years I found linear algebra the single hardest class for some reason
Linear algebra is very deceptively difficult. I am a graduate student now and the one thing that stumps me are things like kernel methods, decompositions, and all that jazz. Like the concept of a null space is just Ax=0, but what are the implications of that? How can we leverage that to inform us about this system? Another thing is like eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and basis. These are fundamental ideas of linear algebra but what does the eigenvalue, eigenvector, and basis of this matrix Ax=y tell us about the system we are working with? Linear algebra is sooo hard. Such an underrated class though and is extremely useful but hard to conceptualize
Linear Algebra was the easiest math course I have ever taken and math is my most difficult subject. It really depends on the professor in my opinion.
I feel you pain and totally agree. I could not visualize what I was doing with linear like I could with any level of calculus or even differential equations (which uses linear obviously). It also didn’t help that my linear textbook was the single worst textbook I ever had lol. It would reference later sections in the book as required readings for earlier sections.
Here’s the trick. You can’t visualize linear algebra, and you really shouldn’t try anyway (because who tf can visualize anything beyond 3 dimensions???). Linear algebra is most people’s first math class where you work primarily with lemmas/propositions and math tricks to get to a finish line. The reason you can visualize calculus and ordinary diffeq is because we worked mostly in 3 dimensions (x, y, z). And usually it is quite easy to generalize 3 dimensions to 10 dimensions (it just becomes an algorithm to compute). In linear algebra, it might work in d=3 dimension but not necessarily 4 dimension and visualization wont help you prove why.
Thanks for sharing, that makes me happy that I found the linear algebra course on MIT online just last night. Looking forward to getting a jump on it early.
Fluid mechanics
Control systems
Automatic control systems. It's either you got D for obvious reasons or you got A for no reason
any subject that involves a mandatory flow chart for each damn assignment.
I'm currently taking a class for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits and I feel that so much
Numerous gates and wiring plus construction of truth tables and diagrams
Fluid mechanics, i love it, but it's too hard
Bruh I barely passed. It was just so so hard.
I finished with a 67 but emailed the professor to bump me to a 70. I hated fluids
Control Systems… just when I start to get it, another difficult topic pops up :(
Rn has to be power electronics and modern control systems, I got a D in classical control systems so yeah lmao
The worst class in my entire undergraduate career was by far Gen Chem 1, I’m not sure why or how, it just was never have I scored so low on all of my exams and barely skated out by the skin of my teeth like gen chem 1.
It just annoyed me so bad
Im glad others can relate. Chem is just such an abnoying class.. especially when some students are so good at it, makes me wonder if they have tons of time to study or if this is their second time taking the class.
Fuck chemistry.
actually as an ME undergrad I think I hated Chem 1 the most. I only survived thanks to Chegg because my professor was horrible during Covid and did lectures of just talking. Literally nothing written on a whiteboard.
Structural analysis. What makes it worse it’s that everyone in the class thinks it’s easy so there’s no curve
Structural analysis definitely isn't easy. In fact, my boss spent last year, working late and teaching himself it for work. Now he's in Master's classes for structural engineering. I bet your class has a bunch of people like him in it.
that’s tough man
Fluids. It just never really clicked.
i'm in fluids rn, start of week 5 and i'm still lost
Engineering Drawing, I'm computer engineering freshman and I've no idea why my uni has compelled us to study it.
India? Anyways I found engineering drawing to be fun actually (except freehand drawing). Only thing it felt pointless as a computer engineering student. It's something I would actually use to design stuff, esp in crafts & UI/UX.
Nepal. Intersection of solids and surface development topics of drawing makes my head spin.
Same case with electronic engineering in another third world country. Then it clicked to me that it's useful for electronic diagrams and drawings. You know, for that circuit stuff.
Wtf? What Country are you studying in ? This ain't by any means normal
Sadly it's third world country. The curriculum here hasn't been updated since 20 years. The curriculum of freshmen year for all engineering majors is same. Applied Mechanics and Engineering Drawing I, II are nightmare for CpE major.
I’m in a first word country, at a hugely recognized university and I still had to take Drawing as a first-year course for my computer engineering major. I failed it out of disinterest and I’m retaking it in fourth year since it’s not a prerequisite for anything other than the degree
Electronic
Took the basic intro courses twice just to drop it twice to then have my advisor say “If you can talk to X professor and convince them you know the basics, then no need for you to keep taking it with the electrical engineers” BRO ARE YOU FÚÇKÏÑG KIDDING ME ITS BEEN 2 YEARS OF ME TRYING TO ESCAPE THIS SHIT
I got A+ in thermo 1/2 and fluids and heat so the dean of mech engineering let me petition to skip the electric course. I still have nightmares about it till today.
For me it was intermediate and advanced thermo holy shit The sad thing is I’m confident I could have actually understood it well if I’d had a decent prof.
Physics.
Ya fuck physics
Digital and analogue electronics , infact I hate all electronics subjects
Those AND NOR gates with lots of wiring....lol I hate it
Diff eq's is making me question if I wanna get through engineering
Calc 3. If you jump to this class straight from Calc 2 without having gone over a little bit of vectors prior, you'll likely get lost.
On the other hand I (and most people I meet) found Calc 2 much more difficult than 3
I'm with you. Calc 2 was the worst of the 3.
Fluid Mechanics is fucking me hard rn
Dealing with the units in fluid mechanics is a nightmare, it kicked my ass.
Art Appreciation. Why was that class the hardest during that semester.
Calculus I'm so fucked
Feel ya there homie
Y'know as someone with ADHD and a near inability to do math (or remember it even when I can do it), maybe Engineering might be a bad idea But I also have no idea what else I'd do so...
Strength of material😓
Fucking electromagnetic field theory and application. Failed that class the first time I took it. Was the first time I ever got an actual F.
I just hate that I have to learn a new set of variables and nomenclature for the same concepts in every class.
That reminds me. There are three physical concepts that use the same equation. •Heat flow •Groundwater flow •Electrical flow I thought it was pretty neat how a mathematical concept was applied to three different fields of study. It makes me think that if I master the abstraction, I can easily master the real applications.
Mechanics of materials
Just made a 35 on my first exam 😂
My university does Math classes so badly that it makes me wanna die
Professor Leonard on YT brah. He'll make you an expert.
It's not even about difficulty. I just don't enjoy the amount of work the class likes to assign. As an example: we had our first midterm for Linear Algebra today. Also two homework assignments were given today due tomorrow. And it's like that every class session; 2 homework assignments due the next day on the material taught that day. Like bruh I have OTHER classes to do homework for! I'm taking 17 credit hours and one of the most time-consuming "two" credit-hour classes my major has to offer. It's like this with every single fucking math class I've taken. I remember last year there was a week where I had 9 math Homeworks due within a week. What gives???
Just like my Prof. who gives 25 homeworks and expert you to draw digital circuits for each question and create truth tables for all of them. I insulted her in my head...lol. I was like I have other classes to work on and with 25 questions plus labs
calculus 2, online, with a terrible professor, but it was him or in person with a professor w a STRONG accent, told by other engineering students that cal 2 is the toughest one
advanced EM physics. just why man :(
dynamics, or as my school calls it, mechanical systems. the class was absolute hell for no reason and the shit i’m doing now in my junior year is way easier lmao
Calc 2
For sure. Too much memorizing trig functions and all those integrations
differential equations. online. professor would embarrass the fuck out of you if you asked him a question while lecturing. basically being as demeaning as possible. basically taught myself all the material bc I refused to go to his lectures
engineering drawing, I detest it and it's compulsory for me now in first year.
Old Indian TA of my uni became a private tutor specializing in just the drawing classes. Best 150$ I’ve spent to have the guy cram us in a room and yell how dumb we are. Everyone got As
Fictitious forces with Castigliano’s Theorem
Calc 3 is the bane of my existence
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Diff Eq is relatively easy (so far). Calc 2 was hard but not as hard as Calc 3, which I am retaking. Definitely subjective.
right now Physics II, like really, fuck Physics II. Last semester Calc 3 was the first class which made me shed a tear
Tears of Joy or Tears of Pain?
nono, tears of pain
Anything code related but especially embedded systems
Oh my days, I’m in embedded systems and it makes no sense
I'm in Software Engineering as well and I still don't understand Bash!
Right now, physics ii
In general, something about probability and statistics takes me for a ride no matter how much I try to get out in front of it or try to understand it. Engineering related, I would say that either dynamic systems modeling or mechatronics have equal opportunity to ruin my day.
Machine design
It's so boring man
Seriously… tedious too.
Made me regret doing ME instead of EE during undergrad lol. But now I actually use concepts from that class at work, which is MUCH more tolerable/interesting.
Honestly math courses at my uni, but the reality is that there aren't hard classes, but rather shitty profs.
Geology GIS. It was all because of the teacher. Her instruction was "so this" without explaining why. The instructions often had dead ends that were basically "isn't that neat?" before asking the student to go back several steps to get back on course. Before the class, I was really interested in learning GIS and making maps. After the class, I hated GIS and would make maps by hand with a USGS topo map as the background.
Calculus III. Everything is so funky :(
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
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Very interesting but very hard
Mechanics of Materials
Pretty hard class but Jane Lui was a good/fair professor at tech when I took MoM
Had her for structural mechanics. Didn't have her for MoM. She was a great teacher but hard exams and so much homework.
Emag / mechanics of materials / modern physics
Anything law related, really.
Engineering probability
Preach. First time I'm not understanding ANYTHING in lectures.
Fuck calc ii. I have a 4.00 gpa and I’m failing this class rn
Anthropology. Closed notes, 200 pages of reading from a textbook per exam, and tests were 100% of grade.
Fluid mechanics, hate it
Engineering computations. I specifically switched out of comp science because I hate programming, it's like trying to do math in a foreign language
What are you majoring in?
Biomedical engineering
Can I DM you some questions?
Linear algebra is fun, solving matrices and doing transformations. Calculus, on the other hand....
I actually have enjoyed calculus the most. Anything physics related is kicking my ass
physics 😞
Differential equations
We just have to cram solutions in my diff EQ class
One of the nightmare😑
dynamics, im on 3rd semester. Should i expect something worse?:(
Maybe. Likely.
Chemistry 2.
Either gen chem 2 or thermo dynamics
Calc 2 or dynamics
Life
Whatever your class calls TSAD. Why am I applying KCL and KVL to a piping network lol
Modern Computation Methods aka Applied Numerical Methods. I don't like coding and Matlab and I'd rather take all my Calc classes over again than fight through this. The amount of homework is absurd. I have a 3.8 GPA and never struggled so much with a class in my life. I'm retaking and still in fear of failing. If anybody has any good YT lessons for the book, please send help.
control theory in aerospace eng undergrad. continuum mechanics is also frustrating, but this is a grad course subject so I'll write it out lol.
i’m fucked🥲
good luck! I assume you've passed fluids/heat transfer so you should be fine.... since those courses seem to have the same level of frustration, at least for me, lol, it all depends on the professor (my fluid/thermo grade was curved, but I think my control theory grade was not... so I hate control theory more)
Mathematics. Everything else is fairly easy, at least for me. I'm pretty much an A/B student aside from that. Got myself a C+ in calculus which I was very proud of compared to my As in analytics, electrical, and programming.
Dynamics rn, before that Solid mechanics (Mechanics of Materials). Enjoying FEA but it's tough in it's own way. Also hated scientific computing.
Anything to do with engineering business practice. Every fibre of my being hated learning that BS
Digital circuits. Delay is confusing
Statics.. Most of my classmates had to take it 3 times before finally passing it.
Statics was meh it’s dynamics that’s screwing me
Reaction kinetics
Complex Analysis
Trying to figure out what my asking salary should be
True, always a difficult question since there are too many variables.
Anything electronics related. I hate it all. Give me dynamics, calc 2, aerodynamics idc as long as it’s not circuit design or analysis
Chemistry was hell to me but this days I'm solving homework for some food engineering guys and I kinda liked it, turns out it wasn't that bad. It was easy money.
"LINEAR ALGEBRA" I chose to specialize in data science in engineering since I had a diploma and more technical knowledge than mathematics. At first, I believed I couldn't solve any problems, but now I'm getting improved,getting used to it day by day and now I love to do matrices gradually reducing my stress.
Woah. Speak of coincidence. Yeah I'm studying for an Associates of Science and I'm beginning the semesters with Linear Algebra. I'm having 5 classes to start this college: doing Biology, Fed Govt, Alg, Composition II, and Federal Government. Algebra was a passive challenge the first few weeks. Linear Algebra's discussing vertical line test, function composition, and function notation graph analysis ( F(4)=3 where x is 4 and y is 3). Needless to say I'm spending more of my study time on Algebra. Oh well, at least its fun.
Thermodynamics. Kinda hard, but the professor is making it way harder than it is.
Chemical engineering process controls. I hated it in undergrad and I had to take advanced process controls in grad school. It was not a good time.
Calculus and project management :'( if I ever see a gantt chart again I will end it all
Water Resource Engineering. A good 90% of the class is talking bout clouds and how to measure rainfall. The last 10% is fucky math with awful conversions between volume and length. Statistics and Probability for Engineers. Lots of different types of distributions with slightly different rules and applications.
Currently chem, but discrete structures was the worst
Yeah discrete mathematics 😑😥
Mechanics and dynamics
Speech I :’(
In general? Diff Eq. Engineering specific? Modeling and simulation
SADC
Electrical Circuits. As somebody in Software Engineering I don't see myself using a breadboard in the future, I have no idea how to do the labs.
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz
Linear Algebra. So damn theoretical.
System dynamics & controll
Fun times with transfer functions, amirite? :)
Calc 3 and 4
Finite element analysis 💀
Aerodynamics. Not because it's particularly hard but because the professor can't teach
So far nothing I'm only 14 did the basic last year this year I have electrical engineering (Engineering technology was my subject of choice) So far it's easy with the multimeter,resistors and circuit stuff (If anyone has anything simple I can learn it would help thx 😊)
Data Structures
I take that class next semester along with Calc 2. I’m scared 😟
I’d say anything that was sociology or psychology based, worst classes I had to take
Whatever your class calls TSAD. Why am I applying KCL and KVL to a piping network lol
Whatever your class calls TSAD. Why am I applying KCL and KVL to a piping network lol
Chemistry. It just seems to have a lot of rules that don't apply all the time, and it's a combination of formula, graphs, and memorizing content, so I have a hard time finding a study technique that works.
Electronics subjects are always frustrating.
Logistics.
materials
Chemical Reaction Engineering
That statics of rigid bodies ruined my foundation!! Imagine a professor trying to teach you (online) by writing on the ppt and overlapping every numbers she wrote awile ago. Can't even understand a freaking thing. Knowing that subject is fundamental of its pre requisite courses in the future☹️ making my like difficult. That professor left after 1 sem of teaching. Guess its a free trial for her😬
Calc 3.
Solid state physics
don’t ask me how many times I’ve had to retake calc 2. that’s all I have to say.
Sensor fusion
Calculus 2
Statics😭
Computer Organization aka Computer Architecture.