The truth is, picking classes can be really stressful. CULPA gives you so many choices: Do you sign up for the section being taught by the professor everyone calls "legendary" or do you take the class offered by the professor who gives A+s and doesn’t care if you did the reading? Does your schedule force you to take the class that’s taught by "the incompetent imbecile"? Maybe you’re the kind of person who willfully avoids CULPA. If you’d like a more personal (and optimistic!) take on picking classes, read on.
Let’s face it, you’re never going to have it all (Dspar agrees! Kind of). However, I’ve always found that every semester, one class stands out as the highlight of my week.
This week, I asked fellow students via Facebook and a Google Doc to briefly answer what their favorite class was last semester and why. Hopefully reading what they say will inspire you to choose a class that could end up the highlight of your week. Here are some of their answers:
“Intro to Linguistics. I always thought linguistics would be boring, but not with McWhorter. Every class was an absolute pleasure to sit in on. Between laughing at his awkward jokes, I learned a ton about language and how to communicate and how it all works and why it matters.”
“The Social World. It was a great survey course that got me interested in Sociology and familiar with the methodology of the social sciences.”
“The History of Modern China I with Professor Zelin. I knew almost nothing about Chinese history [before] but after taking this course I have a much better understanding of China and it’s relationship to the history of the rest of the world.”
