It’s your junior or senior year and you remember that you decided to hold off on taking that one Gen Ed health class or intro to philosophy class. But the time has come to face the music and finally take these classes. You can only help but think:
1. Please let this class be easy.
As an upperclassman, you’re deep into your major classes and these intro classes take up a lot of your time. You can only hope for this class not to be so tedious. Especially when you’d rather work on something you are passionate about.
2. I hope I don’t have to introduce myself.
After almost three (or four) years of giving the classic spiel of “What’s your name?”, “What year are you?” and “What’s your major?” you feel like by now everyone should know who you are.
3. Aww, look at all the freshmen.
You reminisce on the days that you were new to college and how classes like this made you panic a little. Then you realize how much you’ve grown and can only help but give some advice to underclassmen.
4. I wonder how much I can get done with minimal effort.
Face it: Your time is precious, and the less work you can do for a Gen Ed, the better.
5. To skip or not to skip?
You’ve become a master at strategically calculating how a class will affect your GPA and whether or not it’s worth skipping class to study for another or to meet with a professor. You’ve become savvy in prioritizing and live for classes without an attendance policy.
6. On the bright side, at least I’m not stressing out about this.
You’ve been taking intro classes your whole college career. You are past the stressing out phase and have moved on to the “let’s get this s*it over with” phase.