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By far the hardest class I have ever taken is Math 261, 262, 263, also known as Honors Calculus or "fancy calc" to math professor Cathie Trigueiro. I came into the class hoping to be challenged in math for the first time in my life, and to my surprise it has been harder than I expected. But don't let all this scare you away, as long as you attend class, do the homework and attempt to learn the material, it won't be a GPA buster.
We started the first day of the school year with about 15 people in the class. Shortly after, the teacher Professor Kleshchev gave us the first assignment, which I personally could not do a single problem on. After getting the assignment I'd guess that four people dropped the class, leaving 11. By the end of the next week our numbers had dwindled to 9, which is what we finished the first term at. The next homework was doable, but still very difficult, along with the rest of the assignments. By the time the second term started we had 7 students still taking the test. Now we are currently in the third term, 263 and I am pretty sure we have 6 left in our class.
If you take this class you will need to go into office hours at some point during the year, but that doesn't guarantee that you will get the answer. I've gone in a few times and the teacher's basic response is "Well, I'm not exactly sure" and he will check the answer book and we will learn the material together. Sometimes in class he will struggle through the material we are learning too. By no means is he lacking in teaching skills as he is
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