What were your favourite/least favourite subjects in school?

Heh! That came out of left field!!!

Well, it's been a while.
A long, LONG while, truth be told.

But back in the day (and mind you, that was all still in black and white, and running on steam) I absolutely couldn't wrap my head around math. I thoroughly hated it.
Physics and chemistry I simply found not very interesting.

I loved (and have always loved since) all languages, extinct or otherwise. And history.

Interestingly for several studies which I started (not all of which I finished...) a math degree was obligatory.
So years later I got to do some exam level math tests after all.
Did pretty well as well, and actually was a bit of a star at statistics.


Still don't like it though.

I did well in Music and hated Latin

I loved languages (both domestic and foreign), English literature and history.

But I was good at maths, so that's what I did at university and it's what got me my career (which I can't complain about).

Part of me wonders how things would have turned out if I had done English instead and followed my dream of being a writer of some sort (a journalist is what I wanted to be while growing up - these days I still dream of writing a novel).

I don't want to derail Thor's thread but I'd much rather hear your tales of school days rather than lists of subjects studied.

I most enjoyed biology at high school - ah, Mrs McMorrin!

The sciences in general were what I enjoyed most - though I didn't really understand a lot of the ideas in physics. In science I much preferred the theory rather than the practicals; which is funny as I spent many of my years working in laboratories!

My best subject (in terms of grades) was geography. I wanted the subject to be about learning lists of things: capital cities of countries, highest mountains, etc. That was "Traditional Geography". But the examination board had just introduced "Alternative Geography" - and that was learning about new towns, and (of all things) vitamin deficiencies! But I still did well in it.

Although I was good at maths, it was the emphasis on maths (and physics) in astronomy that put me off doing that at university. I think that astronomy would have been my "alternate path". (Though after years of watching Time Team I think that I would have enjoyed archeology).

Nice topic Thor!

In school I was good at drawing. And languages. I graduated on Dutch, English, Greek, Latin, Art, Geography, Math and.... that was it I guess? I don't remember how many subjects there were. Before graduating I also took music but we couldn't graduate on that at my school.

You have to decide which way to go very early, so I chose the language and art kind of subjects. I do remember liking physics a lot. I was also good at math that goes with physics. But because of my other subjects I had to drop that kind of math and go for the math that does statistics and probability. I hated that.

It's funny how preferences change a bit. Because of my life view education I started getting more interested in philosophy and from philosophy I started to get more interested in physics and math again and in science in general. Today I am more interested in those subjects than in languages and art.

A weird thing in my job is I teach life view education. Religion is part of that but I so much prefer the philosophy side of life view and ethics and 'Bildung' and things like that. I really don't enjoy studying about different life views and religions that much, except when it's about personal experiences.

What I definitely like the least now is history and politics and economy. Bleeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......
Which is weird, the history part, because history teachers are my direct colleagues, we are in the same department in school: history, philosophy, sociology and life view. So there is a connection.

I was quite good in school, but not really because I was an ardent student. I hardly did homework. I did, however, decode the "system" (read hard on tests, raised my hand in appropriate moments), and that gave results.

I always disliked natural sciences (chemistry, physics, maths, biology), but did OK. I HATED maths, though, almost to a traumatic extent. Which was a source of frustration to my father, who was -- and still is -- a teacher in those exact subjects at the same high school I went to.

I was a language guy (English, French, German) and moderately interested in human sciences (religion, psychology, some civics) as well as Norwegian. I loved to write fiction (I have two teenage novels stored in my parents' attic somewhere), and was again frustrated when I started high school and there was no fiction to be written -- only non-fiction. The closest was analyses of poems, short stories etc. That wasn't good enough.

It would be interesting to hear how people feel about physical education? It's not usually something you assoicate with nerds like us. I was never among the best in my class, but more in the "second best" group. I loved ball games of various sorts, but hated more alternative things like folk dance or orienteering or whatever else they managed to think of. Didn't particularly care for jogging either. And a gym studio is one of the most boring things I can think of -- even to this day.

The good thing about swimming is you don't feel the sweat!
I hate the feeling of getting very warm and sweaty while doing sports.
So swimming can be nice. Also a relaxing feeling in the water, feeling a bit weightless.

I absolutely hate running. I hate that feeling each time your feet hit the ground while running.
I like just taking a walk though or cycle a bit.

I did not hate physical education in school, at least not as much as the girls who tried to avoid it with all kinds of excuses. I enjoyed the lessons where we did fun things, like spear or discus throwing (you know, the sports that don't make you sweat), also badminton was a lot of fun.

I hated the gymnastics (?) lessons, because I was afraid doing all of those jumping things and saltos and stuff.

Hated dodgeball, people throwing balls at you as hard as they can... who invented that???
I hate hockey. Stick too short, my back hurts, ball is too hard, people hit your ankles with their sticks, brrr....

Sports I did in my own time were Jiu Jitsu (till age 14 I guess). Then I did volleyball with my friends from high school. When I was 15 I quit. Funny enough last week there was a volleyball game at the school where I work for teachers and other employees. That was fun! It had been years since I played volleyball and I enjoyed it. The next day I couldn't move, all my muscles were hurting of course, but it was fun.

Generally speaking, I really don't like sports, the only way I enjoy moving is dancing.
So later on as an adult I tried things like aerobics, Zumba and now belly dance.

And of course yoga. Which is not a sport really.

We've got some new members since I posted this, so time for a bump.

I wanted to reply but then I saw I already did in November 2011.
And the answer is still the same.

I hate economics, politics, history.
I love languages.
And I wasn't a physics / biology / math girl but I am more now.

I LOVED maths! It helped that i was pretty good at it. Too bad I had a major falling out with my teacher in A-level maths as I probably would have followed a career in it.

I was good at ARt and really enjoyed it but I soon realised it all became about 'meaning'. As my Art School tutor put it "You have to learn to spill out the Artistic bullshit if you want to make it as an artist"

And I hated music.

This is another 'evergreen' topic, in case someone didn't repy the first time around. Obviously, my own "story" hasn't changed much since the earlier 2011 post.