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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • A thing that upset me when I went to college (15ys ago) was all the fluff electives I had to take. More than half of my classes were not associated with my major. I was looking into getting a masters a few years ago and one of the requirements was American History, again! I learned all of American history in elementary school, and all of it again in middle school, and all of it again in high school and again for my bachelors and I need to do it again for a Masters? Add along more sciences and math classes for an art related major. While I understand in building well rounded students, a lot of it seemed like it was meant to just beef up the number of classes I needed to pay for.

    The number of electives needed was also enough where you only had two options.

    1. Keep your part time job and take additional winter, summer or night clases and pay extra to get them in.
    2. Have no job and fill your whole schedule with classes (each class was 3hrs long)