<p>When it comes to picking courses do you pick the course based off what's going to give you a higher grade/easy A or do you pick because of genuine interest?</p>
<p>I choose courses based off the latter. An easy A course could be boring as hell. Rather have an interesting course, even if it's harder to get a higher grade in it.</p>
<p>I do a mix of both, I guess. I usually pick elective classes based on interest, but sometimes I know there’ll be something easy that I should take. I wouldn’t take something that was super easy but ridiculously boring though.</p>
<p>A decent mix. Ideally genuine interest that’s also an easy course :P</p>
<p>I have some interest in quantum physics for instance, but I’m not gonna take a course on it because I’d fail it in a heartbeat and probably wouldn’t understand it anyway. If it was some sort of “quantum physics for non-science majors” then I’d take it. I was going to take an Astronomy class next semester that apparently is challenging but very interesting… just my cup of tea. But I ultimately switched it out for something else due to scheduling interests.</p>
<p>I tend to go for classes I’m interested in regardless of difficulty. I find that if I’m in a class about a topic I have no interest in, I start not caring and do poorly in them, even if it’s supposed to be an easy A.</p>
<p>Usually I pick based on my interest. I love challenges.</p>
<p>Both. I had to take an oral communication course and chose acting over speech. I knew speech would be more challenging AND uninteresting, so I chose the one that was interesting and easier. </p>
<p>Mostly, though I choose interest. An easy A just isn’t worth being bored out of my mind.</p>