A majority of college students will suffer from academic stress such as homework, exams, projects and graduating on time. However, my biggest academic stressor are the irrelevant classes that I am required to take that are nowhere near relevant to my major. I say this because I am only focused on software engineering and cybersecurity. This is a stressor for me because I am not interested, nor do I care about other classes such as art or even medieval history. This becomes a problem for me because I am more likely to skip or increasingly become ignorant to those classes as they do not hold the same interest level compared to computer science classes.
Under normal circumstances, disliking an irrelevant class isn’t a huge issue. In fact, every college student will dislike an irrelevant class or any class at some point in their college career. Disliking an irrelevant class becomes an issue when the student fails to show up or disregard their performance in that class. It becomes an even bigger issue when that said class is a Gen Ed which is required to graduate. Failing this one class could jeopardize you graduating on time and in extreme cases prevent you from graduating at all. That is why irrelevant classes like art are a huge academic stressor for me.
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I also get frustrated with the requirement of Gen Eds. I am an older adult returning freshman and wish I could jump right into the exactly what I want to do and the classes I need to do so! It seems like a waste of time and money.