My first thought on reading this was "dude, you stole my answer."

After thinking about it for a while, though, I think General Topology is worse. I still don't get it. Or, what's worse, maybe I do get it, and just don't care enough about the subject to register that fact.

I got it I think and still open up the books every now and then, but it was about topology and model theory that I started to question its applicability. I remember asking my lecturer this (I could have phrased it a little better in hindsight, I sort of burst out during a lecture 'whats the point of this' The lecturer got a little upset :-)).

Transfinite numbers are always my favorite example of something way out there, different sorts of infinities and which infinity is bigger than the other, the models are beautiful, but I couldn't spend my life arguing about them. I think for most people maths starts losing its relevance a lot earlier, it justs takes some longer to admit it, because it's prettiness is so seductive :-).