Over the past week I have asked around among friends and fellow students about how they felt about the course selection this summer. The sentiment was of let down; most students felt they weren’t able to take courses that applied to their program, or that they had already taken the offered classes. Unless you are looking to take English 105 you are probably hard pressed to find a real variety or challenge. But maybe that’s the point?
This summer I am able to take the courses I wanted: moderately challenging ones that don’t require much time but still apply to my degree. The summer is a time for rest and relaxation, it’s a semester, but fall and winter are where the bulk of variety can be found. The summer is meant for that one calculus course you dropped in the winter semester because you realized there was no way you were walking out of it with anything higher than a C. I am committed to sunshine and beer throughout the summer and really can’t be bothered with massive term projects. I want to show up, learn something (maybe), and leave without having to slave over studying and assignments between classes. Summer is the time to dabble, to volunteer, to get involved in our communities or around campus. Do something different, because the fall semester is coming and we’re going to be right back into the four or five course overload just trying to keep our heads above water.
