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Reply 3 of 125 (Originally posted on: 02-09-08 12:05:12 AM)
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Quote: "I only read 49% of my assigned reading. Only 26% of it will apply to my life." Give me a fucking break. That kind of mentality is exactly what is diluting the education pool in this country.
I agree to an extent. However when I talk to my friends going to various state schools, and they tell me about the classes they're taking, (Ice Skating, Tennis, other very-specific-stupid subject courses) I just cringe.
These aren't just people who are still undecided and just taking whatever comes along till they figure it out. Engineers, Pre-Med students for example are taking this stuff.
I absolutely love History and Literature, and even Tennis - but to be honest, in college, only if you have the time/money for it.
In high school, and even middle school, I hated people who would complain about having to learn shit they'd never use. How should they know, they have no idea what they're going to have to use. Until 9th/10th grade I absolutely hated math and never expected to have that in my future, but here I am now with notebooks crammed full of it. If I didn't give it a chance I would have never discovered my knack/like for it.
This goes for college too, but I think if you have a direction you want to aim for, and you're comfortable aiming straight for it, you should, for the most part, be able to aim straight there (that was a lot of commas). You are paying for it after all.
I'm taking a "Hebrew Prophets" course right now, and honestly I couldn't be more thrilled with it. It is an awesome buffer class between all the other stuff.
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