The longer I've been here at college the more I feel like I haven't learned anything in my classes. I'm here in my fourth year now, and a large fraction of my time in classes is spent thinking things like "I know this already I learned it in," some other class from my first year or two here, or wondering how other people in the class tie their shoes at night, let alone how they have managed to get into an upper level class without grasping things like parsing English sentences.
Recently when I've found myself lamenting that class is a waste of my time I've tried to ask myself what I have been getting out of college. I've found that "the least of learning is done in the classrooms" is really a very applicable statement to my experience here, so thanks go out to Thomas Merton for saying that so I could quote him.
One of the things I've been thinking over in relation to this post was the idea of making a series of posts about "things I learned from college". This may or may not come to pass, only time will tell. I can say with certainty however, that no matter how little I feel like I've actually learned from my classes, I've learned many things from being here at the University that I wouldn't have been able to find so easily had I been somewhere else.
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