Archive for January, 2009
Did I mention speech class sucks?
by Kenneth on Jan.15, 2009, under Sidetracks
Ok, class is back in session. I have a very torturous Speech Communications class of which I am now 26.67% of the way done with. My college has what is called a J-Term. During the month of January you take one class in a really condensed form. I chose to take Speech Communication in two and a half hour chunks, four days a week for about four weeks. I am not convinced that I made a smart choice. I looked at it as 4 weeks of pain vs. 15 weeks.
What I am convinced of is that general education requirements were designed by colleges as a way to extort money from students. Can anyone tell me what good American Lit 1865-present is going to do me? I can already read quite well and have been doing it for somewhere close to 38 years. If I think about it I guess I can see the necessity because if there were no American Lit classes then there would be a lot of PhD’s in the unemployment lines. With no Philosophy classes, there would be even more PhD’s in the unemployment lines….
I think it all boils down to academia finding a way to keep its members employed and getting someone else to foot the bill – like us poor college students.
