The other part of it is if you study something real all your other classes have to suffer. Hmmm, learn something real and get this project done or spend 6 hours in one sitting reading a history textbook because my history prof when asked how much required reading to give said MORE.
I guess I'm phoning in the history class. I'll take a D in that one.
At least you considered reading the book. AI and Wikipedia can give summaries, and I recall looooooong ago that students sometimes used Cliffs Notes. I didn't like them and would instead skim text until I got to something in there that seemed interesting. College was initially boring in the first year, until I took a philosophy course (that year) and agreed to offer a presentation on Nietzsche. I enjoyed reading after that.
In that specific class the professor heavily weighed quizes, and they were for the most obscure details. You had to read all the text and somehow retain it. I'm more of a thinker than a reader. Scanning a book into my brain is not something I do.
I had come from a community college that was reasonable and then went to a university to finish. The history class wasn't the only one like that and I had never seen anything like that at the 2 other schools I had been to. So that school was encouraging their profs to require insane amounts of reading and make it hard to get around. I'm told none of the other schools in my state are as bad. But it made real learning non-existant if you wanted a good grade in these minor classes. There just wasn't time to think about anything. And these classes on the high side of the chart require that you do some of that. Quite a bit actually. It was completely sabotaging for anyone who wanted to study something real.
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The other part of it is if you study something real all your other classes have to suffer. Hmmm, learn something real and get this project done or spend 6 hours in one sitting reading a history textbook because my history prof when asked how much required reading to give said MORE.
I guess I'm phoning in the history class. I'll take a D in that one.
At least you considered reading the book. AI and Wikipedia can give summaries, and I recall looooooong ago that students sometimes used Cliffs Notes. I didn't like them and would instead skim text until I got to something in there that seemed interesting. College was initially boring in the first year, until I took a philosophy course (that year) and agreed to offer a presentation on Nietzsche. I enjoyed reading after that.
In that specific class the professor heavily weighed quizes, and they were for the most obscure details. You had to read all the text and somehow retain it. I'm more of a thinker than a reader. Scanning a book into my brain is not something I do.
I had come from a community college that was reasonable and then went to a university to finish. The history class wasn't the only one like that and I had never seen anything like that at the 2 other schools I had been to. So that school was encouraging their profs to require insane amounts of reading and make it hard to get around. I'm told none of the other schools in my state are as bad. But it made real learning non-existant if you wanted a good grade in these minor classes. There just wasn't time to think about anything. And these classes on the high side of the chart require that you do some of that. Quite a bit actually. It was completely sabotaging for anyone who wanted to study something real.