This, of course, is an observation fueled by my own experiences with the Core Curriculum I don’t doubt that plenty of people had a great time reading the Book of Job to confirm their own disbelief in God. For the most part, they’re right, seeing as how each Core course is awful in its own special way. After writing a four-page final on their favorite piece of art and how it relates to Plato, every student finishes the course with either a B+ or an A-, ultimately celebrating that they will never have to take a class like that again. The “discussion” allows the professor an opportunity to slide in a possible answer to a completely arbitrary exam question-something along the lines of “What is the definition of mimesis?”-before assigning some sort of journal writing to be submitted on Moodle that everyone will wait until the last minute to submit, each personal blurb sounding like the most recently submitted one ad nauseam. As more than twenty Colgate students begrudgingly funnel into their 8:20 clutching copies of Plato’s Republic, it becomes evidently clear that not only did no one do the reading, but everyone is also perfectly fine with sitting walleyed as a Physics professor drones on for 75 minutes about their afternoon plans (and asks each of the students what they plan to do to pad time).
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