I absolutely hate all this general ed stuff I’m taking. I have zero interest in it and have to really discipline myself to work on it.
If you don’t like General Ed, then why did you go to college? Why didn’t you do something more vocationally related? Would have taken less time and cost less.
I found college to be far more interesting once I got through the general requirements and into the electives for my majors. Then again, some of the courses that changed my life were ones I never would have taken except to fulfill requirements.
I agree with Troyus. Once I finished with my gen ed classes and I started taking classes related to my major everything was a lot better for me.
At many colleges, there are many options for GE requirements. You may want to look through the catalog for more interesting ones.
One of the thing you are proving to employers by earning a college degree is that you have self discipline. It isn’t a bad thing.
That’s a strange thing to ask. Of course you’re going to like it better if its something you’re interested in.
It’s weird that people talk about “after general ed” as though you have to finish all your general-education requirements before you’re allowed to take mostly classes in your major. (Do some colleges require this?) I’ve never had a semester that was specifically devoted to general-education requirements, and I don’t see any reason to do this unless you’re undecided about your major.
Some colleges require some specific general education requirements to be completed early. A typical example would be an English composition requirement, since colleges prefer that students have college level English composition skills early on, since such skills are useful in other courses.
One’s major may also have more junior/senior courses than frosh/soph courses, so one’s schedule may have more space for general education courses in the frosh/soph years than in the junior/senior years. Undecided frosh/soph students may be doing exploring and sampling of courses in various subjects; those which do not become part of their majors could end up being used for general education requirements.
Yeah, except for the core classes requiring a ton of busywork from different concentrations in your major that you could care less about. Like computer engineering courses for someone trying to be a power system engineer.
Taking all major courses is really nice when the workload is light but it can get harder… I sort of miss taking GE classes (although I didn’t take that many)… In fact, it would be fun if I could take all GE’s in my last semester to breeze through the last months until graduation. At that point, I would know that I’ll never be using the information again yet also not care that the stuff is boring–because I’m graduating! Getting that last feeling of “this is what college is supposed to be like for the average student,” rather than the experience of taking all engineering course schedules throughout most of college.