Nov
2014
Personal Stake
In my perspective, the Gen Eds is extremely important for the college students. We come to college not only for the purpose of finding good employments in the future, but to learn and explore the unknowns. Gen Eds provides the opportunities for us to build ourselves into well-rounded people. We all need passion in life, and this passion may not necessarily related to our majors. I’m a business major, but I also like music and art. I think the Gen Eds offers me the chance to learn more about my passions. Later in life, these knowledge is going to build me up into a stronger person, and I will always have something that I’m passionate and knowledgable about.
It’s also too early in our life to say what we want to do for the rest our lives. The Gen Eds helps me explore the unknowns, and offers me more possibilities for my paths into the future. It’s not until we learn something we find out whether we enjoy learning it or not. If I don’t want to take the risk of choosing a class that I don’t like, how would I ever find out that it doesn’t suit me well? College is about exploring, and it’s about finding yourself. We are lucky since we are still young, and we have the energy and time to make mistakes, and correct them.
There is one more thing the Gen Eds gives us–the social network. When you encounter new people, if you have something that you are professional and passionate about, it’s easier for you to build up a topic and talk about. The more you know, the more you could talk about it. It’s quite pleasant if you could also find some people sharing the same interests with you this way. Knowledge builds on your social network, and it makes you seem wiser than the others
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Ben Kenawell
November 4, 2014 at 4:53 pm (10 years ago)I don’t think it’s too early to know what we want to do with our lives. We’ve been living for close to 19 years. Unless you’ve lived a very sheltered life, I would hope you’ve already been exploring areas of interest throughout high school. Maybe there’s still some more to be done in college, but you should be able to focus on an area or two you find the most exciting by now.
As far as the social network goes, I would say that happens more outside of class. There’s 800 people in my physics class and I know 3. However, in my clubs I am meeting new people all the time. I may not stay in contact with them for too long (maybe a canning weekend or two). But I have more opportunities to meet new people. In class, even if I knew more than 3 people in physics, it’s still the same people all semester with no chance to meet anyone else. With 800 people in physics, it may not be a problem there. But with my 30 person math class (of which only 10 ever show up), I already know everybody pretty well. I’m not great friends with any of them, and now I have no opportunity to meet others. They might share a common class and a common major (which often isn’t true in gen eds), but it’s hard to find someone with the same interests (which is what you find in clubs). If gen eds were more like clubs instead of classes (as in, we could pick them more based on our interests), we would find a lot more people we enjoy getting to know increasing my social network at a far greater rate.
sjh5585
November 4, 2014 at 4:28 pm (10 years ago)I actually agree with every point you’ve made in this stake. I do believe that the use of gen eds can make us more well rounded and prepare for things that we’re majoring in! I really like that I see someone that is on the same page as me! Great job!