Stanford Athletes Can No Longer Take Easy Classes, Just Get Easy Grades

What was the easiest class you took at Cal?

Its got to be one of those seminar classes available to freshman, where you get to know the professors. (20 students/1 professor).
I took a Civil Engineering Seminar (1-unit), just watch video and discuss once a week. no HW.

As far as a real class, a 6-unit College Writing class or Math 16B were the easiest for me.

Harbaugh you genius!

I presume Harbaugh ends all conversations, emails, and Catholic Confessionals with that statement.

wow, that is a horrible AWESOME picture of Luck.

this is really a non-issue for me. So they compiled a list of “easy” classes for student-athletes, but there are such a list that exists for every school. We all know that certain professors give either easier tests or require lower quality work for a higher grader. It’s inevitable.

The fact that a school would cuddle their student-athletes is no news. Plus, as we all already know (and have been pointed out a few times), grade inflation at a top private university is pretty much expected.

a few pretty easy classes as a Mass Comm major. One was on the history of Los Angeles… quite a few athletes in that one, most notably Tony Gonzales. I don’t remember the name of the class, I think it was in Sociology dept.

Most of my Dutch literature classes were pretty easy. The Dutch department was so happy to have people take their classes that they didn’t want to frighten anybody away. Although I suppose the classes would have been harder if I had not been able to read Dutch.

(Thanks to Dr. Kodiak for getting that screen shot!)

I am glad to say that I work for Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

lecture and lab were my hardest classes at Cal. Most lower division sciences were pretty tough, mostly because i would be drunk at a football/basketball game while most of the other students would be in VLSB studying.

Also, any class in Evans made me depressed. They weren’t the hardest classes, but they were definitely the saddest.

my easiest courses were always my korean language and literature courses only ‘cause i already knew the language. didn’t feel bad about taking them; not many people were taking the classes anyways. maybe 10-13 per. but did get me to use a less colloquial, slang filled korean daily.

Ethnic Studies 109
History 5 with dear Professor Slottman.

Whatever it was, it was with Prof. Todd Gitlin. I “took” that one and wrote the final essay sitting on the floor of the ASUC bookstore as I flipped through the book for the first time. Never could stomach the class or the professor (freaking leftist hippie activist) but knew I could pass with minimal effort.

ESPM something-or-other, entitled ‘Insects and Human Society." Also might’ve been the most fun class I took.

Music 27: Intro to Western Music – If you listened to a couple songs you’d be fine, and I think they offered so much extra credit questions on tests that I actually got more points than points possible – for the entire class. I didn’t even do that in high school.

IB 28 (or was it 32) – Evolutionary History of Dinosaurs

although to be upfront, I did really poorly on the midterm because I didn’t really study (C+) but I got 130 points (out of 100) on the Final and ended up with an A+ in the class. It was just memorization.

The required reading list was Black Lightning notes and the professor brought his class notes to lecture in a Lance Blankenship A’s folder because Lance had taken his class when he was a Bear.

Took that Freshman year, that was really easy too.
Leon Powe was in class. But because it was a Spring Semester, I didnt see him half the time.

Easiest class I ever had at Cal was probably the Business Minor. I think if you added up all the work I did for the minor, itd be equal to the work one would do for a single class. Man do I love group projects!

Psych 2: Four midterms and one final. I skipped the fourth midterm and ended up with a 100% in the class (all the midterms and finals had extra credit). The content was interesting but easy as hell.

History 127AC: Interesting content and a good professor can’t change the fact that the assignments and finals were easy as hell. I should’ve taken it for a grade as I ended up with enough for an A. Whoops. Interestingly many people (including my friend’s ex who tried to get both of us to do her essays for her to no avail) struggled.

CS198 (Web Development with Ruby on Rails): It was an experimental class when I took it. It was an accessory to the RAD Labs research. All I had to do was work in a group to build a web app in Ruby. I got bored and wrote PHP and Python code to write Ruby for me. Now-a-days it’s an actual class.

Easiest of my required classes? Probably CS61a (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs or a.k.a. SCHEME!!) and CS170 (Introduction to Algorithms)

CE 167 was probably my easiest class. Added bonus: i took it with Paige Bowie, who was very easy on the eyes.

I was on the golf team my Freshman year and I was definitely given an “easy class” list. I don’t see the big deal. I was an economics major taking tough calc, stats, and econ classes…so whats the big deal if I took some fun classes to fulfill breaths?

But I do like slamming on ‘Furd for easy grades and just generally being a bunch of d-bags. And their architecture schools isn’t accredited? I’m thinking of some great sign ideas for Luck now….

Too bad she was a lesbian. By far the easiest class, and one I actually remember quite a bit of, was a de-cal class entitled “The Filmic fascination of Whoredom”. Taught by a hot redheaded dominatrix. I learned about sexism in the sex industry, which swords go good with a leather blouse, and what Golden Showers were. Go Bears!