So, we all remember those classes in high school and college, those little filler classes that were only there to fulfill some sort of requirement, right? They were really boring, and usually quite easy? Well, I’m in one of those right now.

Environmental science. It has nothing to do with my art major. I can see how it could be an interesting class, but the format that this one is in, I find it highly boring. The professor drones on and on, reading from a really boring PowerPoint slides, and often spins off into irrelevant tangents. The only interesting point about my professor is that she’s from Kenya (as in Africa) so she has an interesting accent. But she actually speaks in really low tones, and that classroom is usually warm, so I end up feeling really sleepy and I usually nod off in class along with most of the other 80 people in here.

My solution? Laptop! Now, I just come to class (“participation points”) and work on my laptop. This class is now one of my most productive hours of the day. I answer e-mails and send out group messages for my student organization, edit photoshop documents I’m working on, write blog posts, and read news through my feed reader. I’ll occasionally glance up at the PowerPoint in class, but since it’s at a 9th grade level, I usually know everything or it’s common sense and I go back to work. So, what’s the point of these “required” classes again?

Does anyone else find this to be the case?