<p>I'm already having to plan for my winter quarter classes and I am having some sort of dilemma here. </p>
<p>For sure, I will be taking Math 381 - Operations Research II and Math 431 - Differential Equations (upper-division). I am trying to maintain a balance during all my semesters, so I searched for two general eds to take. </p>
<p>It's come between one area:
Bioethics - I am genuinely interested in biology and am going to go to grad school for biostatistics. The teacher is Berkeley/Stanford educated. He pushes everyone to really learn and only a small portion get A's while a huge portion gets B's. It'll be a lot of work.
Shakespeare Before 1600 - I've never had a problem with English classes before. I'm pretty good at writing essays. That being said, I HATE Shakespeare! However, the guy is Harvard educated and is a thought-provoking kind of guy. It is easier relative to the teacher of the Bioethics class.</p>
<p>And another for the difference between the teachers(poly sci class):
Girl A - Harvard Law/UC Berkeley PhD educated, pushes people to their limit and forces everyone to participate in discussions if they want to get an A. Assigns an insane amount of reading and exams are on the hard side. People learn a lot.
Boy A - Cal State Northridge educated. You pretty much get an A for showing up and listening to the guy ramble on for an hour each day you have class during the week. Exams are easy and he pretty much gives extra points on exams so people can get A's. </p>
<p>My dilemma is that I feel like I should be learning as much as I possibly can and get what I paid for. On the other hand, people could potentially be getting a better grade for the same course by taking an easier professor. I know that my Math Operations II teacher works us like hounds because she's from Harvey Mudd...but my Diffy Q guy is going to be an extremely relaxed person. So, what do you think? Should I take the classes I'm not interested in and get the A's or challenge myself the entire semester to earn the A's, even though the "rigor" of the course doesn't matter when people looking at my graduate application see this? If I get a B+ in the course, then it'll obviously affect my GPA...which is very important...but at the same time I want to try really hard to get the A's because I believe I could earn them and not just zombie mode the courses. Then again, I could have a lot of time to focus more on my other classes by making my general education classes easy as possible, but I feel like I'm getting robbed of my money/education somehow that way.</p>