The college life, what a great thing. I've been working on a lot of independent research lately and mainly learning a lot about different things that really interest me. The bad part is that I think I've found something that interests me more than what I am currently studying in college. I got to thinking today: What if colleges offered courses geared more towards what I ultimately want to do in life, and what everyone else also wants - money. I feel as though I am wasting time and money sitting in a classroom this summer while I learn about something that has absolutely nothing to do with what I want in life, nor does it have anything to do with what I want to learn about. What if colleges offered degrees based around what a student wants to learn, and not what they think we should learn. Should I be sitting in a Biology class, learning about the human body when I really want to be a mechanical engineer? Should I have to take a pointless class on computer programming(which I'll probably never use) when I really want to learn about website developement and HTML codewriting? If I need a computer programming class I think that my school should offer a choice, and not make me take something that is pointless and outdated. I feel as though I'm being held back from my true potential from all of these pointless classes. I'm trying to understand the "well-rounded" education line that everyone tends to give me but I just can't see how that is effectively using my time. If I work for a mechanical engineering firm someday am I going to have to know how mylenation helps signal processes in neurons? Probably not. What about problem solving? Will I ever have to write a high level computer code that will take more time to write than it would for me to hand-solve the problem? I'd probably be fired if I wasted my time like this! So why is it that my college is teaching me how to "waste" my time with ineffective methods that would result in my termination in the work force? This completely blows my mind....
