(03-06-2023, 03:35 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(03-06-2023, 03:01 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: Stupid people take stupid courses..

Yea, my freshman year I got unwillingly roped into a course called ''Interdepartmental Studies' by a 'counselor' who informed me that I was taking too many math / science courses for a 1st semester freshman.  The course ended up being taught in the round; the concept was to 'rap' about the current issues of the day.. pollution, racism, the Vietnam war, etc etc while looking around at each other.  Half the class didn't want to be there, and the other half didn't bother to be there.  It would have been more productive if we had just played dodgeball sitting in those chairs.  I ended up just making it my own personal study hall and caught up on my reading for my more 'traditional' courses.  It's both sad and pathetic to think that there are college degrees out there that might have those kinds of courses as core curriculum.

I gotta say, I think I benefited the most by going straight from High School to the workforce. And I barely graduated. I was a C-D student pretty much my whole HS educational career. I was more into girls and booze. Cutting classes and sometimes, not even showing up. It took me close to 10 years to lose interest in that 'Weekend Warrior' status. I finally figured out to work smarter and not harder.. Ended up enrolling into college, started off with my prerequisites first, and once I got those down I ended up graduating as an A-B student.. 

My point is, not every kid is ready for college immediately after High School. Some have those demons in them that they need to extinguish first lol

So, not attending college for about 10 years later allowed me to also think about what I really wanted to do and apply myself. 

Ended up working in the aerospace industry. Boeing and Grumman..

Retired now.

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