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Originally Posted by Seahawk
The best courses for life I took in college?
Speech and acting classes. I also benefited from tutoring other students and working through college. Getting in front of people, learning the ability to communicate well and impromptu is a critical attribute for growth and opportunity regardless of the degree.
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^^^ part of why I said either a music performance or studio art class is in my "everyone should take" list. I would favor actor or improv classes over public speaking just because the abstraction helps.
The things I did outside the classroom were easily as important as what I did inside. Then again, I got my partying days out of my system before I went to college so there wasn't a lot of that going on. In addition to course work:
- tutoring other students. Made money doing it, and forced me to really understand the material
- intramural sports. Working as a team and having the discipline to organize your schedule and show up for games
- performing (in my case, in college choir, folk group at mass, rock bands outside of school). The rest of your life you spend selling yourself and your work, and it is often performance art.
College is a time you can piss away, drift through, or cram full of ways to learn and live life. I get the feeling that a lot of people end up doing the first two approaches, in part because they are there because their parents said so. In my case, after 4 years in the real world working dead end jobs, I was seriously motivated.