I was finishing up class. So fed up with college and desperate for a passing grade. Thought about coming up with a persuasive way of asking my teacher if he'd be able to pass me for the simple fact that I knew for sure i would not become a persuasive teacher in any shape of form. The guts were not in me to tell him that but the thought wondered on the top of my skull every day of classes I had no interest in. This teacher of mine was very old school but hipped. I guess he had learned "Swag" from other students. I was told that he'd be a hard professor but I always take these professors because I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, meaning that I could have a different set of opinions about the teacher. Besides, according to the students I know, all students are bad professors or hard if they give homework. That, I never understood and actually felt guilty for them. Maybe that's why I'd always ended up taking them.
This professor of mines, asked us a question. "Would you take an "A" for a class grade but not learn anything or take an "F" but leave out the class with a thorough knowledge of the course's material?" At first I pondered and thought about needing a passing grade to graduate but then I thought about graduating but not being able to apply those skills being that I wouldn't have known them. I did not answer but I learned something that day.
From time to time I think about dropping out of school and justifying it by saying that I know what I need to know and I feel I didn't need to be learning other material. I really would do this if people were not counting on me. I decided to finish school to make them proud but I'm not proud that I'm forced to take these classes. I understand being well rounded is good but students are being forced to take classes that will not benefit them in the type of work they do.
I would rather leave class with an F and know everything.
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