Something about the phrase "required class" leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouths, which makes it easy to forget how kick-ass the Core actually is:
1. Now T.S. Eliot and James Joyce are only 85% incomprehensible, whereas before you went through the Core, they might as well have been speaking a mixture of Sanskrit, German, Gibberish, French, Colloquial Irish Slang, Italian, and Latin. Wait, they were speaking---well, thank goodness for the language requirement.
2. Uwriting peer editing sessions. The ignominy of having three of your classmates scramble for something positive to say to you after reading your five-page-long drivel was so traumatizing that since then, you've actually started writing your papers four hours before they're due instead of the usual one and a half.
