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[[Category:Guides]] [[Category:Academics]]
These are the classes to avoid at Williams. You can only take 32 classes while you're here, so take [[Interesting Classesinteresting classes]] and stay away from those below. If it is the professor, rather than the subject matter itself, that makes the class boring, please make a note to that effect -- keeping in mind the bounds of courtesy and discretion, and the fact that the best place for comments of professors' abilities is [http://factrak.williams.edu Factrak].
===Psychology 201===
If you're taking Stat 201 now, just be glad you didn't take it while Professor Racz was around in 03-04. Then, it made for a semester of mindnumbing intellectually-insulting drudgery.
If you are considering taking stats in the future, keep in mind that if Professor Klingenberg were a superhero, his super power would be to turn dry material into a waterfall of intellectually stimulating learning. I can honestly say that his Statistics 201 class was one of the classes I looked forward to going to most during my time at Williams (a feat, given that I found my major incredibly interesting). While his abilities to judge how long a problem set will take (if he says it's long, no big deal, if he says it is short, watch out!) are sometimes a little off, there is NO WAY his Stat 201 is one of the most boring classes at Williams. Given that, I'd like to make a motion to take this class off this list, or only keep it here conditionally. If you agree, register support on the discuss page.
===Economics 110===
And some elementary arithmetic too.
Seconded - very dull and easy
===Economics 251===
Very much a continuation of the boringness of 110. Albeit with tougher math.
===Physics 100===
Boring doesn't even begin to describe this class. And it's not that easy, either. General accepted knowledge is that it used to be easy and fun (and was called fun-hundred, in fact). However, now it has become a scary crash course in relativity. If you find a physics major to help you with your homework, you may even find that they are unable to do it.
Edit: When did you take the course? Because Spring '06 had an upsettingly boring and painful professor. Rumour has it that before that it ''really was'' fun hundred.
===History of Jazz===
Positive: it counts as a peoples and cultures. Also an [[Easy_classes|Easy Class]]
Negative: you need to show up to every class, as he takes attendance (starts at 8:30), and if you wanted to know it, you could read a book. It's not worth it.
