In HS: civics. My teacher taught us that 1) ignorance is no excuse 2) information is power 3) with power comes responsibility

in college: all courses related to consumer behavior

In college it was a requisite that I take a psychology course. I dreaded it. I am not into gray areas. I took a class called "the psychology of death and dying". Most interesting class I ever took. I have to say it was my all time favorite.

I liked most all of my classes at all levels, but I have fond memories of a high school English teacher who had a wonderfully dry wit. Her jokes were somewhat esoteric, but related to the literature we were studying. Only about three of us in the class would get the jokes and be laughing. Everyone else thought we were nuts.

In HS it was Comparative Governments. The teacher lectured rather than using a text book and was very, very interesting. Also, bless his soul for reading all of them, he gave essay tests!

Always in all levels it would be the sciences. Especially genetics related.

I really enjoyed the psychology class I took.

Yeonassky, why would you need a degree to publish a book? Think J.K.Rowling. If your imaginative and learned in certain subjects as you are...heck you could write and publish now.

Biology was my favorite subject.

I loved reading, English, and history.

Couldn't wait for school to be over, I never really liked school much at all. I made good grades but I just didn't care to be there...had better places I'd have rather been. HAHA! I enjoyed science and biology type classes the most. Hated math and Spanish. Took Cosmetology in high school and that's what I was into at the time.

In high school, my favorite subjects were math, chemistry, physics, and shop.

In college, I did not have any outstanding favorites since I was striving toward an engineering degree and most of the courses were required. However, engineering students were required to branch out a bit and take something outside the engineering discipline. Two of those I found interesting were psychology and astronomy.

Two technical electives I chose were "Heat and Power Lab" and an additional course in "Strength of Materials". "Heat and Power" prepared a base for entering the power generating or other large power sources, and additional study in strength of materials was a door to formulating equations that describes what occurs inside materials.

In 1957, the college began offering a computer course. Back then, the new idea digital computing was making inroads on analog computers. I did not have the foresight to pursue this option. My schedule was too crowded as it were and I needed to finish my degree. My financial resources were limited. If I had to do it over again, I would have found a way to include computers even if it meant dropping something else. That would have greatly changed the course of my career. However, I am very satisfied with the choices I made and those have served me well.

History, Writing (English), Math. I especially liked Geometry because one could "prove" it and know the results were correct.

I also enjoyed the wartime courses I took in Radio Engineering. They were very tough, but I knew that passing the courses meant I had a job at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I still feel somewhat proud that I was one of the 30 young women who finished the course. 63 of us started but every six weeks some would get a "pink slip" with their grades which meant that they were going home.

Today one would be horrified at our class schedule--we went to school 8 hours a day, 6 days a week! No time for anything else. It was war time and we felt we could contribute to the huge war effort.

Accounting and business classes.

My favorites were all of my art classes and biology. Sounds weird, but I enjoyed dissecting things.

I hated school. I like reading so English and Literature were okay. I also tolerated history, but only certain types of history, like ancient cultures or the Tudor period. Any math beyond basic adding,subtracting, multiplication and division as well as all science classes except Sex Ed/Health have been utterly useless in my life.

I am still waiting for the vast majority of crap i learned in school to prove useful.

Astronomy, Math and Logic. Wondrous order!

You mean besides music? General music, band, orchestra, and theory, enjoyed all of those. Art of course in grade school. Didn't take art in high school until senior year; I had some open time so My friend and I took Art 1 with all the freshmen, had so much fun and learned a lot.

In general, I liked any course where I could write a report or paper, especially if it was in lieu of a test. I enjoyed writing but was too sensitive to criticism for creative writing and too shy for journalism. Eventually I discovered technical writing and that became my career. (Great career, btw, if you like learning new things, because I had to learn the things I was writing about.) But I also thoroughly enjoyed my Teaching English as a Second Language subject area. Every course in it was interesting: language development, brain development, psychology, learning theory, teaching theory, history of English, Middle English (well, those two were electives in the field, so much fun), grammar, syntax, phonology, culture, and more. I'm such a word nerd I lapped it all up.

In high school, all math classes. In college, statistics and economics. Law school -- Constitutional Law (one of only 2 A's out of 100+ students and awarded top paper on the final even though I blanked on the name of the case I needed to contrast on a first amendment question on the final, Cohen v. California, and had to reference it by the speech at issue -- 'the f*^k the draft case." I am sure the professor got a laugh out of that! LLM -- Administrative Law, only because it was the most creative final exam that was actually fun to write and I made the only solid A in the class (there were a few A-'s).

English Lit and in college different psychology courses.

In high school, I was a good student and enjoyed everything except physics. I was not good at that. In 9th grade I took an accounting course and decided that was what I wanted to do.

In college I got my degree in accounting and worked in the industry for about 20 years. But during college one class still stands out as a favorite. It was an American history course from around 1900 on. Instead of lots of boring names and dates, it followed several families through all the eras. Someone like the Rockefellers, normal average people in the mills, etc etc. It related how each major event (war, stock market crash, depression, etc) affected the families in different ways. I think i took three pages of notes the entire semester, and I aced the class. And it was interesting.

Recess?

Any class that required I write a legal brief. Obviously, university! ;)

Yeonassky, your lack of a college degree shouldn't figure into the writing equation at all. A common reason why reasonably talented people don't get published is a lack of persistence. Could that be true in your case? Once a manuscript is rejected, it's so tempting to put it in a drawer and give up on it, but what you do after the rejection is what counts. Send the manuscript back out! Rejection hurts, but it goes with the territory. A writer should expect rejection.

Writer's Digest magazine has a feature in which debut authors are interviewed about their process. Most were rejected many (many!) times before their books were picked up by an agent.

Have you joined a writing group? If not, my advice is to find one, and if none exists in your area, start one yourself. Ideally, at least some of the member should be writing in your genre. Feedback from a good writing group is so valuable--and being part of the group is a pleasure.

I'm impressed that you've written three books!

Biology and math.

Aok, I think I would enjoy that history class as it follows families. My favorite way to learn is by stories.

U.S.History and English...especially EnglishLit. Didn't ask..but most hated, and still is, anything that calls itself MATH!

Literature and Accounting which makes sense because I am an avid reader and the job I worked in for 24 years was in the accounting field

I remember in high school when we had assigned books to read and everyone hated it but I enjoyed them. Couldn't figure why I was different, now I know, I just love to read.

One of my sons was in a two year high school curriculum that integrated all the subjects so that literature, history, science, etc were taught in a way that reflected the same time periods and there were many opportunities for co-teaching. It was amazing and he learned so much more because it all made sense in ways that the usual disjointed approach does not. Seeing how times of peace or times of war affect science or culture brings it all together in your mind so you can see the causes and effects. Usually we have to make those leaps ourselves and we often don't.

Mine were algebra and trigonometry.

Any of the courses in sociology or political science that I took.

My education through high school was basic public schools, and I always loved math. I was good at it and I enjoyed it. I took through AP Calc in high school. I attended a very rigorous university where I had to start with calculus and go from there into multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, etc. and I began to hate math. I think because I was so overwhelmed and obviously ill-prepared for this "version" of math compared to the simpler math in my previous education. Foundations in math are so important because they build on each other, and what I thought I fully understood in high school didn't properly prepare me for advanced college work.

I also took a creative writing elective class in college and barely passed! I always considered myself to be a pretty good writer, so that was a slap in the face. I graduated from college thinking that I really wasn't good at anything. I know now that isn't true and that I would have been just fine at any other school, except maybe MIT. :)

In grade school, I can't recall a favorite though I looked forward to art on Friday afternoon....last class before the weekend.

I enjoyed Sociology.

History and English. Later, I finally learned to like math when I was good at geometry, and then 2nd year algebra and Trig. Foreign language was my downfall - not good at rote memorization and no ear for languages.

I'm not good at math either so I can commiserate with those who said they aren't and and yet still I admire those who are mathematically inclined. DH thinks lives and breathes mathematically. His brain just goes there so at least I'm a little less afraid of it after all these years. :-).

Thanks again for sharing everyone.

In high school, biology, science and math. And I enjoyed English primarily because we had good teachers.

In college, still all the sciences, but as an engineering major I particularly enjoyed all those in my concentration (electrical and electronics) but also loved some of the others we had to take like thermodynamics and materials. And still would have loved biology. I always wished I could have done something in the medical field.