I would just like to address something that bothers me. As I was sitting in class this morning, I was having a little trouble hearing what the professor was lecturing on. You see, I was distracted by a couple of people in the row in front of me who were having a very deep and interesting conversation about how "trashed" they were last night, and all the silly and crazy (and wonderful) things that happened to them. And while that would be an unbelievably thought-provoking conversation to engage in, for some reason, I was trying to hear the lecture. Of course this is an auditorium class and so people can get away with chatting the hour away and no one says much. And so now I guess I'm saying something.
I'm saying to those of you out there who do that (and you know who you are), that maybe you should consider actually listening to an entire lecture rather than only shutting up for long enough to scribble down the notes on the overhead. I'm willing to bet there's a very good chance that you'll actually enjoy it. You may say that it's just "too boring" for you, but you'll probably find that things are more interesting if you see the big picture. If you actually pay attention from the start, I bet that you'll enjoy very nearly every/any class that you take here.
I mean, that's why you're in college, right? You want to learn new things. And while you may find gen. ed. classes to be "just too boring" for you, have you ever thought that there is a reason you are required to take the gen. ed. classes that you are? It is to make you a more well-rounded and educated person. Maybe it will even teach you a lesson about life: that if you give new things a chance, often times you will find much more value in them than you think going in. And, keeping in mind that many of the people I want to address probably don't read the/a/any newspaper all that often, I encourage those of you who do read this to share it with someone who wouldn't read it on their own, but should.
Scott Proulx
Sophomore
Economics
