<p>I looked at the open curriculum as “I’m taking this class because I want to be in it, and everyone else wants to be in it too. No one here is taking the class because they need a biology course to graduate, and I won’t be expected to complain about taking the course because everyone is here just to fulfill a graduation requirement.” For me, that worked for everything - all of my classes were ones I wanted to take even the ones that I wasn’t particularly strong in or didn’t have any prior knowledge about (I loved the astronomy courses, by the way).</p>