Up through high school it was math, I'm good at it and it's all about figuring out rules rather than memorizing facts. If you were good enough at math in my school you never had to study material like you did with history or english readings, and there is a strong satisfaction to truly understanding the rules that our universe operates by. In the later years of high school I also got to try programming classes, which helped lead me to where I am today.
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High school: Physics or Calculus. Loved Newtonian physics, and I was always good at advanced math (sucked at basic arithmetic for some reason, always got bored and skipped steps)
College: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, or Fluid Dynamics. Combination of advanced math and physics, always really cool to me. Differential equations was a close fourth.
I liked my moral and ethical philosophy class, up until the professor started evangelizing to us about religion, which kinda ruined it for me
Math. The problems are hard but if you know math, you can do lots of stuff with it. Though I can't say I am good at memorizing formulas.
High school? Chemistry. I took it because I had no interest in biology. Turned out to be interesting, so much so that I took Chem II even though it wasn't required to graduate.
Chem II was the hardest math class in high school. I loved it.
College? Computer Organization. It's about how computers work down at the circuitry level. All the programming was in assembly. Easily the hardest class I took in college.
I don't know why the hard classes were always my favorites.
Chemistry was super fascinating. I looked forward to taking chemistry since I was 9-10 years old. A lot more math than I imagined for sure!
English isn't the native language where I'm from so I liked English classes the most. It was fun flexing my English skills to others that couldn't speak it very well.
Physics, biology(until we got to cells and I lost track) and theatre.
The last one was nice because I got to let loose and be myself ironically enough :)
Science.
This was my favorite also. I love knowing how and why things work so all science was naturally interesting to me. Math was a close second since it felt like doing puzzles which was very satisfying. English and history were my least favorite since it involved a lot of memorization or creativity which I lack.
I always found that quite strange about some countries. It's such a broad topic, it doesn't make sense as a single subject. Biology, Chemistry, Physics are all perfectly good subjects on their own.
Oh, it did get split into those three subjects, but that was later in high school, IIRC.
World history in high school. My teacher made learning fun. My teacher occasionally brought replica artifacts and such to class.
Sozialwissenschaften (social sciences/ politics and economics), compared to everything else was non trivial and not tedious content. Math and physics and CS are nice and all but talking about current Events and interpreting them using certain models was always the most fun for me. With the slight downside of having to remember all the nomenclature.
I never would have written a 20+ page homework for any other subject, but for this sowi course I dug myself through the Israeli Arab conflict in as much depth as you need to get a good general overview, and I was having fun doing it.
It helped a lot that I picked the course because I knew which teacher it was going to be held by, and that the teacher was genuinely very good.
Well since nobody said my favorite yet ill toss out History.
I hated history as a student but now that I’m older I find it a lot more fascinating and wish I had paid better attention back then
English. IDK why, I've just always been obsessed with reading and written words and language since learning how to read.
Maths because it's the easiest.
I'm known for being bad at all of them, but as long as it's not gym class, I can tolerate it.
It was math but I realize I'm really bad at it.