<p>Anyone know of any Summer classes going on during session B that have pretty easy professors? upper division preferably, but not completely necessary.</p>
<p>Don’t take classes because they are easy, take them cause they are interesting. Even if you’re “done”.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you’re wasting your tuition dollars. If it doesn’t engage you, then you will not gain anything.</p>
<p>Take easy A classes because employers look at your GPA and not whether classes you took were ‘interesting’ or not.</p>
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<p>Then why go to college? College does not exist so you could get a job; if OP was really so concerned, then he would have gone to trade school, no?</p>
<p>If you come to a university with the philosophy that you should just breeze through it in the most efficient way possible, then that’s just tuition dollars wasted because you’re not utilizing the advantages of a university. You might as well have pursued one of those cheap Bachelor’s at some CC somewhere.</p>
<p>Perhaps but top employers do not hire CC grads. Also UCSB offers a good variety of extracurricular activities and intellectually enriching community which CC’s don’t.</p>
<p>The payoff of a high GPA is more significant than interesting classes that are harder to get an A in in the long run. The main aim of going to university varies from one individual to another however the way tfizzle phrased his question can be interpreted to support point of view explained above. </p>
<p>Stop preaching non-sense. With 8.2 percent unemployment both of us need the best chance to get an interesting, well-paying job. Only exceptional GPA will help us achieve that and you know it.</p>
<p>So the value of an education is the grade you get at the end?</p>
<p>It’s strange how you make that argument, considering that STEM majors often have lower than average GPAs, but get higher paying jobs.</p>
<p>A university education provides you with the skills to think critically and analytically; this is what will matter twenty years down the line.</p>
<p>Of course, STEM majors are more difficult to complete and have higher demand than Film and Media studies majors or History majors, for instance. It is obvious why they are higher paid however higher GPA in those subjects will make a difference between you and thousands of other graduates.</p>
<p>Critical thinking and analytical skills won’t matter if you graduate with insufficient GPA. These skills are not taught in classes either, the only to become adept at critical thinking and analysis is by developing your skills on a personal level. </p>
<p>I agree that engagement in lectures provides the stimulating environment but is it worth is to risk higher GPA and hence a chance at a job for what you would consider 'more engaging classes?</p>
<p>Moreover, he asked about ‘easy professors’ which does not mean less egging classes. It all depends on how you interpret that statement.</p>
<p>If it turns out that the classes that are engaging to the OP are also easy, then that is a plus. But GPA should not be the number one consideration unless he or she is in risk of flunking out.</p>
<p>You make a good point and I definitely agree.</p>