If you didn’t quite score a 5 on BC Calculus (or if you did, but only because you were way more intense in high school than you are now), have no fear — there are plenty of ways to fulfill your two QR skillz requirements without wanting to throw yourself off the top of Sterling Chemistry Labs, MIT-style. The first rule of thumb is to look for classes that are cross-registered in a non-Science or Mathematics-related department. The second rule is to look for prerequisites like “some high school physics or chemistry.” “Some” basically means that you could have dropped out of every high school physics or chemistry course you ever took, or that you could very well have slept through 75% of those courses you did take and still pass these QR classes. That being said, here are the best of the best QR courses (for the worst of the worst math students):

1. APHY 110/ENAS110: The Technological World, Victor Henrich. TTH 11.35-12.50 DL 220. 50 assessments in the “Good” to “Excellent” range, only two people rated it “Poor.

2. ASTR 110: Planets and Stars, Robert Zinn. MW 2.30-3.45 LC 101. “An introduction to stars and planetary systems.” Conveniently located in LC for English majors, with “no prerequisite other than a working knowledge of elementary algebra.”

3. CPSC 112: Introduction to Programming, Drew McDermott. MWF 11.35-12.25 WLH 119. “No previous experience with computers necessary” — if you’re reading this, you’re overqualified.

4. MATH 101: Geometry of Nature, Michael Frame. TTh 2.30-3.45 LOM 201. Downside is that enrollment is limited to freshmen and sophomores, upside is that they can’t have taken high school or college calculus.

5. PHYS 101: Movie Physics, Francis Robinson. MW 2.30-3.45 BCT 105. Full description printed, without comment:

A critical evaluation of Hollywood action movies using the laws of physics and Fermi-type estimation techniques to distinguish between fictional and real movie physics.

For more course options, read other posts in the Bullblog No-Bull Guide to the Blue Book!