Show tip J 4 LETTERS TO EDITOR 4 T J. J 1 1 j j 1 v f I of E 1 JoY Jo Y oy t f j- j General Education a better way way Dear Editor This is my third year here at Three years ago when I decided to come here instead of one of the other year four-year institutions in the state I thought that I really knew what I wanted to do with my life I wanted to be an artist I didn't know what kind of artist I just wanted to tobe tobe tobe be one The problem that arose however was that after taking several quarter of classes I started to realize that maybe I didn't want to be an artist after all I thought that maybe I was just getting a little burned out so I took a quarter off from school to see if I still wanted to study art when I came back Sure enough when I came back and took another art class it was readily apparent to me that I had chosen the wrong field of study for my interests Now I have all of these unwanted credit hours I was over half way to an associate degree when I quit I had two options I could either go on and try to finish the degree in art so I could transfer the credits to a university or I could start all over again with a different course of study I couldn't bear the thought of taking more art classes so I decided I would register for some useful general education classes until I knew what I wanted to do I really wish I would have taken just general genera education classes in the first place instead of trying to get a degree in something I really didn't know that much about A word to the wise unless you really know what it is you want to do and there is no possible way you would change your mind stick with the classes that can be applied to any course of study So if you are young and cant can't decide dedde what to go into dont don't just arbitrarily pick a course of study that sounds fun Take general education and save yourself a lot of grief It makes things so much easier in the long run Signed Brady t 1 r t 5 t 1 SI 1 wa E i d 1 J i I |