I feel like there are some classes that should be about 5 class periods long, but thanks to the beauty of American education, I have to sit through an entire semester of Statistics in Psychology, when I could have been in and out of there in 2 weeks. When a teacher takes an entire class period to go over roughly 6 example problems, you start to get the feeling that there is far too much time, and not nearly enough content. Is this not sad to anyone else?
I understand that some people learn slower than others, and yes, some of the people that are in the class with me may not exactly be mastering the content at the same rate that I am, but still, I am trapped in a room with no windows, forced to listen to a teacher talk at us about the same topic we have been covering for a week, and then go through practice problems in excruciating detail. After how painful this class is, I realized that I am not cut out to be a psychology major.
Yes, psychology is considered to be one of the easiest majors, and yes the psychology classes are considered by many to be among the most boring (with any “health” class taking the top honors in that category), but honestly, I didn’t think I would be thinking of ways to break out of a classroom without anyone noticing before. I knew psychology would be easy for me, I didn’t think it would be horribly boring and uneventful.
So, like Johnathan Ames, the main character in Bored to Death, I think I am going to make a change and do something more exciting, like become a biology major. I will have to make a show about it now, and run it on HBO for a few seasons using actors I find at an indie film festival.
Thanks for reading!