College is making me tired...

**mrtr33** · 10-17-2008, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Kenyth

One thing that's always irritated me about general education requirements are the six credit hours of Arts. I mean really, what possible career advantage can fine arts give me? I guess it's good for being well rounded socially.

I felt the same way. But I also studied the crap out of my college catalogue. They offered classes as general ed that were more than your normal, boring education requirements. So I ended up taking History of the Theater, and History of the English Language. Much more exciting than Introduction to Poetry.

Calculus II kicked my tail. Never even considered III. I have always wanted to take Linear Algebra, and there was a class called Discrete Mathematics that I really enjoyed.

**Kenyth** · 10-17-2008, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by mrtr33

I felt the same way. But I also studied the crap out of my college catalogue. They offered classes as general ed that were more than your normal, boring education requirements. So I ended up taking History of the Theater, and History of the English Language. Much more exciting than Introduction to Poetry.

Calculus II kicked my tail. Never even considered III. I have always wanted to take Linear Algebra, and there was a class called Discrete Mathematics that I really enjoyed.

It doesn't help that the sole fine arts subject I'm interested in (classical music), isn't offerred. There's one general music class that comes available on my schedule infrequently. I'm going to be forced to take ceramics shop and perspectives in Fine Art, I can see it coming.

**ashauler** · 10-17-2008, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Kenyth

It doesn't help that the sole fine arts subject I'm interested in (classical music), isn't offerred. There's one general music class that comes available on my schedule infrequently. I'm going to be forced to take ceramics shop and perspectives in Fine Art, I can see it coming.

Ceramic arts.......I'm thinking honkin' ass cigar ashtrays.

**mrtr33** · 10-17-2008, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by ashauler

Ceramic arts.......I'm thinking honkin' ass cigar ashtrays.

I took a couple pottery classes in college, and actually enjoyed throwing clay on a wheel. We had several different kilns to fire our work in, and they fired them quite frequently, including a wood kiln fired twice annually. Wood kiln firings were like giant hippie parties.

There were always kids trying to make some crazy bong in ceramics class without the instructor finding out, but because he was an ex-pothead, it never worked.