Generally Speaking, Gen Eds Should NOT Be Required
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Generally Speaking, Gen Eds Should NOT Be Required

They oftentimes don't have anything to do with what we are going to school for.

Brandy Reiser
Nov 28, 2017
Saginaw Valley State University
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Generally Speaking, Gen Eds Should NOT Be Required
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Hello places of higher education, I have something to say to you and youre not going to like it but here it is.

General education classes aren’t worth my time or money. I’m paying you to get a degree in something that I want to learn about not something that you tell me I have to learn about.

I will spend more time on one class for my major than I will for all of my general education courses combined and here is why

  1. I probably already took a similar course if not the same course when I was in high school. I learned it then. Why do I need to learn it again?
  2. The general education classes don’t have anything to do with what I am going to school for.

Of all the gen ed classes I have taken only one has had anything to do with what I am going to school for. Why are you making me waste my time and money on classes that I won’t remember anything from the following semester? If I am paying you why are you making me waste money on these classes? I came in the door knowing exactly what I wanted to study and I am still studying the same thing. It is not going to change if it hasn’t changed after me being here for two and a half years it is not going to change when I only have two and a half more left. Taking Gen eds is an entire year and a half of wasted money in my opinion. If we wanted to take a bunch of science classes we would major or minor in something that required a bunch of science classes. I’m a social work major though so what does science have to do with my major? Nothing!

Gen eds are a waste of time and money. Stop making me take them. School is expensive enough without you adding on classes that I’m not going to need.

Thanks, a college student in lots of debt that could have been avoided if gen eds hadn’t been required.

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