I am waaay too tired to reply to this post the way it deserves... but if I don't do it now I'll forget, so you kind of get stilted either way.
But I totally agree about the four things that these types of classes have. My gen ed class, this stupid body art class, has all four of those, except today the kid wasn't in the third row; he was in the seventh row next to me. And the class has about 300 people in it instead of 150, and the class is two hours long, so we generally spend about an hour total listening to side tangents that have nothing to do with what's going to be on the test. And honestly, for this class, all I care about is what's going to be on the test.
The bright side is that it's classes like this one that make me realize how lucky I am to have found a major that I like. I can sit in a biochem class and write everything down because I'll need to know it for the test... but the reason I actually write everything down is because I don't want to forget it. I love my major. So, if nothing else, these stupid gen eds remind me of how good I actually have it.
Remind me, and maybe I'll have some more to say about the social sciences and how I don't hate the entire field. Later. For now... it's bedtime.
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But I totally agree about the four things that these types of classes have. My gen ed class, this stupid body art class, has all four of those, except today the kid wasn't in the third row; he was in the seventh row next to me. And the class has about 300 people in it instead of 150, and the class is two hours long, so we generally spend about an hour total listening to side tangents that have nothing to do with what's going to be on the test. And honestly, for this class, all I care about is what's going to be on the test.
The bright side is that it's classes like this one that make me realize how lucky I am to have found a major that I like. I can sit in a biochem class and write everything down because I'll need to know it for the test... but the reason I actually write everything down is because I don't want to forget it. I love my major. So, if nothing else, these stupid gen eds remind me of how good I actually have it.
Remind me, and maybe I'll have some more to say about the social sciences and how I don't hate the entire field. Later. For now... it's bedtime.