I'm very much looking forward to the classes leveled at me this upcoming Fall semester. The class I'm currently enrolled in is not only not interesting to me, but I spend a fair amount of time wondering 'why the hell do I care about this again'. I know I'm not alone. I've heard everyone and their mother complain in just that manner while attending classes. On level I understand that some classes aren't popular with the majority of people, but at the same time I realize that the reason certain classes aren't interesting is because I actually know that I will never use the information I'm being taught in the class ever again.
I might be the anomaly, because I've painstakingly staked out college with the intention that whatever the hell I graduate with, I will heavily rely on in my career. What the hell is the point in going to a reputable school like A&M if I'm going to graduate with a 'worldly understanding' about some crap that at best half relates to anything I ever do again. I'm not a education history type person, but I get the feeling that maybe this 'generic' class structure is the result of college education becoming so mainstream for everyone. I literally feel like I'm in a bigger high school sometimes in certain classes. I feel like I should eek by, make a passing grade, and then forget everything I ever heard or thought of in that class because I'll need that brain space for slightly more functional things, such as the miles I'm supposed to get my oil changed and fun trivia I hear off TV game shows.
I think it would be more constructive to make classes less broadly structured and more specialized. I don't really see the point in ever taking a statistics class, for instance, if I'm not a Math major. Even though I'm in Anthropology and therefore stand a good chance of someday using statistics in someway eventually, I feel like I would have to call up a statistical expert for guidance anyway, just to be sure. Going with the example of statistics, I think it would be more productive if they integrated several components from both statistics and anthropology into a class that focused exclusively on the issues pertinent to statistics in anthropological studies and experiments.
Jerry Doucette
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Jerry Doucette a Vancouver-based guitarist and songwriter best known for
his Billboard Top 100 song from 1977 titled Mama Let Him Play has died.
Jerry Do...
2 years ago
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Yeah, what people once thought of as undergraduate work is now relegated to the realm of graduate school.
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