[violinist]

I haven't personally taken organic chemistry, but several of my friends who have taken both organic chemistry and algorithms have said that algorithms is by far the harder of the two. So I tend to disagree that biology and organic chemistry are harder than anything in CS.

[base698]

Have degrees in both and agree. The amount of work require to get a B in data structures would get you an A+ in biochemistry.

Physical Chemistry on the other hand...

[fivestar]

Eh, my college girlfriend majored in Chemistry while I was CS and Math. P. Chem was certainly a huge challenge, but I never got the sense that she was smarter than me, just maybe more determined in certain ways and better at memorizing shit. She got a 4.0 and was valedictorian, but she dropped any elective classes if they looked like they would not result in an "A" for her--I especially remember her dropping Calc II, for example. So she got her 4.0 by successfully gaming the system, whereas I never got overly focused on grades as the ultimate marker of successful learning.

Btw, I have done quite well in life, not sure where she ended up; probably chasing some other kind of "grade" these days, lol.

[watwut]

That may depend on school. I have seen opposite - chemistry requiring much more work and being harder. I never found algorithms particularly hard.