I loved my bowling class! It was 1 credit on a Saturday morning and I had so much fun on Lane One with the other losers that could not bowl. It was me and a bunch of black girls with tight jeans, hair, and fingernails done, and we had a blast.
You could move up in the lanes if you improved, but none of us ever did. I got an "A" because, like your class, the score you could bowl was not the issue. They counted participation and a few tests about the rules, history of bowling, and the anatomy of a bowling alley.
My Music was a survey class and I liked it even though I don't like music too much in real life. No crazy guy taught it.
My Intro to Computers was Programming in Basic and it just about killed me. We had to write all kinds of code to end up printing out a diagram of Snoopy on a dot matrix printer, so now you know I am old. I was using one of the first Apple products at work, so this did nothing for me.
I got my Accounting BBA and it served me very well in the earnings game later on in life. I was bookkeeping while going to school part-time, so this all was good career-wise and school-wise. My boss at the time said to not worry about anything but getting good grades and jumping through the hoops since that stuff all matters in accounting. My salary more than doubled the year after I graduated so that was a good plan.
I went for my CPA and needed a few additional credit hours beyond what the degree needed qualify to sit for it. So in my last two terms I took whatever would fit into my schedule just to get those hours. One of those classes was called something like "Intro to Western City States" and turned out to be one of the hardest classes I ever took. I thought my accounting classes where hard until I got to this.
It was taught by a genius who was in the midst of a nervous breakdown as far as we students could tell. He never looked at one of us directly for the whole term and sat at his desk looking at notes and talking like a madman for three hours straight. The material was so dense and about things like the installation of sewer lines in 14th century Italy as a means to population growth. We would all just be numb on our breaks from this.
The class had three exams and we got all the possible questions on Day One of the term. He picked only one question out of each section on the day of each exam and then we wrote about it open book. The exams came back with all kinds of remarks handwritten by him and strong words of encouragement about how to do better for next time. It was hard to believe this guy had written all this nice feedback but he had.
I was an "A" student in most classes and got a "B" here. I have never used any of the knowledge that was crammed into my sore head.
All my degrees were paid for by the companies I worked for so I never cared about cost. But I sure did not like carrying all those heavy books around and I know they were expensive.
that is one of the most impressive responses to anything i have ever written here. If I could give you 200% upvote i would. tyvm for commenting. I loved it!
Aw! Thank you so much. I loved school and you got me to go down memory lane :)