A College Student's Break Up Letter To Core Classes
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A College Student's Break Up Letter To Core Classes

Goodbye, core classes, and the hundreds of students I spent hours with in large lecture halls.

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A College Student's Break Up Letter To Core Classes
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Dear Core Classes,

It’s been a long road. I’ve sat through hundreds of hours of your lectures, written tens of papers, and completed countless exams. I’ve spent countless hours memorizing facts to spit back out on the final exam, giving you close to two years of my life.

I’m not really sure what I’ve learned, but I hope I am a more well-rounded person due to you. So, my dear core classes, this letter is for you in honor of our splitting of ways.

Goodbye, core classes, and the hundreds of students I spent hours in large lecture halls.

Goodbye, Biology, Geology, Math, and basic Lit. I’m onto bigger and better things, that are actually related to my major.

Goodbye, memorizing facts just to forget them in order to make way for next exam’s lessons.

Goodbye, dragging myself to class, unmotivated and searching for a reason to skip lecture. I’m moving onto classes that excite me and keep me enthusiastic about learning.

Goodbye, spending hours every week covering exactly what we read in the textbook the night before.

Goodbye, scantron multiple choice tests and iclickers. Essay exams may be a drag, but at least I have to prove I’ve learned something.

Goodbye, yawning every three seconds while mitosis and meiosis are pounded into my head for the 10 billionth time.

Goodbye, overly witty and passive aggressive essays used to try to spark the class up a bit.

Most of all, goodbye feeling of wasting my time.

Although I can see your importance, Core Classes, I am glad to see you go. It’s not me, it’s you. Truly. I am looking forward to building myself as a writer (I am a Writing major, you see) and moving past the seemingly juvenile courses you have forced me to endure.

Fondly,

A College Junior

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