Reply #100: My experiences.

[DireStrike]

Of course, I did go from new york's top public high school to one of its cheapest colleges, so that could be it.

100 level courses contain nothing I didn't already know, or couldn't learn in 5 minutes from wikipedia. The exception was accounting 101, which would be awesome if I wanted to be an accountant. I guess I've taken a lot of english and sociology courses, which are pretty much BS anyway once you know what you're doing. It's challenging when the papers get so long that they require time management skills, but that's about it.

I also learned in the one history class I took - medieval european history. Of course since I couldn't remember how every single minute detail and date matched up, I got a C. I guess I'll stick with the discovery channel. Even if I had done well though, nothing could really be said for the course beyond "interesting." Certainly not useful.

At best, courses are useless and interesting. Usually the teacher just spends the class rehashing what was in the reading assignment, making either the reading or the discussion superfluous. In some cases, both were.

Writing papers is a waste of time. I've been doing it for years now and the only time I get a bad grade is when I don't hand them in. Are there seriously college students who STILL don't know how to write papers? What the hell did they do in high school?