Article January 13, 1997 Issue

Getting the most out of your classes

Thomas Richard Mitchinson

Ever feel that school is a battle between the teachers and you? Or that there are certain subjects you're just not interested in? I've felt that way at times, and not surprisingly, whatever class I'm taking seems to slow down and drag. And that makes it even harder to get something worthwhile out of it.

It wasn't until I was well into my college career, though, that I realized something had to change—and I found that something was me! Sounds backward, doesn't it? After all, I didn't make a particular class boring—the teacher did, right?

I had suffered through a sociology class with one teacher whose method of teaching I found quite boring. My grade was just average—little effort and little results. Another professor seemed stuck twenty years in the past. Nothing he said seemed relevant to today. There were other classes like this coming up that I needed for my degree.

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