College Without Class

Published April 8, 2008

By Mac Smith

Whenever students have to battle through a Thursday of three classes, review sessions, and late nights at the library to prepare papers and exams, they curse the system and wonder what college would be like without all these classes to get in the way of the experience — especially when all of their friends are drunk on that particular Thursday night. I often pondered this abstract scenario as well. It seems to me like college without class would be similar to summer camp: all of your friends, no parents, and lots of alcohol.

Oh, to be naïve.

Earlier this year, I withdrew from Bio 002. I think my highest grade was a 54. So I took the easy road out and dropped the class. With the credits I’m going to receive from a UVM Spring Break class in Belize (yeah, there’s such a thing), I’m still taking 12 credits and therefore am still a full time student, but for all intents and purposes, I’m only taking three classes. It sucks.

I do pretty much absolutely nothing. I take at most two hours out of my life to go to class and then I come back to my room to sleep off my hard work. Sometimes I go to the gym, most of the time I’m a waste of life.

This lifestyle is unhealthy for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s boring. Sometimes I look for work to do to kill my time. Lying around is only fun when you have friends to do it with. Secondly, whenever I have actual work to do, it’s that much more of a pain in the ass to get my act together. Suffice it to say, my work ethic has taken a beating thus far. This will not fare me well when I have to weather my final tests and papers.

Although my GPA will be safe for another year, it won’t reflect the amount of work I’ve done. And yes, I really do enjoy sitting around making fun of my friends for their workload, but it comes at the price of their constantly ostracizing me, and that’s a problem. Lesson learned: Next year I’ll be a real college student.

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