How much do you love the Core?

anon43256521
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:59:57 +0000

I’ve posted about this before, but I think it’s great. It helps make you more well-rounded. For hundreds of years, the mark of a higher education was your familiarity with classics of intellectual thought, and so being forced to encounter some of those in the core is a nice throwback.

The classes are all much easier than you’d expect, too. If you end up in a crappy class, either drop it or just suck it up like an adult. Not every class can be amazing. In most core classes you can do fine with minimal exertion, so getting them over with is not the endless agony some punk-ass Maroon writer makes it out to be.

I know this sounds dumb, but look at the core as an opportunity. If you’re a math major with no interested in lit, the Hum core is going to force you to read Homer or Nabokov or whoever, and you’re going to be smarter (or at least more interesting) than people who take nothing but math courses. I’m not saying you’ll be like Bush in [this Onion article](The Onion | America's Finest News Source.), but you won’t be one of the uncultured hoi polloi either.