The Truth About Higher Education

I'm currently sitting in the most boring class ever.  The teacher is droning on at the front of the class, completely oblivious to the fact that at least half the class is paying absolutely no attention to what he is saying.  Only watching the clock as the minutes tick slowly by.  40 more minutes??  *Sigh*

I wonder for a moment if he actually realizes we are not listening to him.  We make it fairly obvious, by the constant eye contact with our laptops.  We never answer when he asks the class a question, only look momentarily up from our much more interesting screen to shrug and look away.  We clearly do not know the answer.  Not because it was a hard question, but because no one is paying attention.

It's a really sad thing that I am stuck in this class, freezing my butt off, trying to occupy myself and stave off the utter boredom.  I will pass the class of course, probably with a B.  If I tried even a little bit I could get an A.  But let's be completely honest.  I would rather take a B and never have to come to this class, than try to endure this boredom for another day.

Most of my classes are such.  Which begs the question, am I really learning anything?  Why the hell am I even here?  I could be doing something so much more productive with my time.  It's disturbing to me, because I know I am not the only one.  So many of us will receive 'good degrees' with very little real learning.  Of everything that I have had to study in my career as a college student, I have only really learned about 10% of it.  And of that 10%, only about 1% stuck. 

So there you go.  That is the ugly truth about higher education.  Most of the classes are frivolous wastes of time, spent in subjects that have absolutely no connection to the degree that I am going for.  And in turn, the degree I will receive will have very little to do with the actual job I will do when I finally graduate. 

And in case you are wondering, I am an International Trade and Finance major, sitting in an Organic Chemistry class, and preparing for a career in publishing.  Yep, that's the truth about higher education.  WTF.
I hope my dad is happy about the over $100,000 he has spent on this wonderful education of mine.