<p>Seriously I don't see the point of an engineering student taking courses in foreign language, art, film etc. seems like a waste of time and money.</p>
<p>They have schools like this. They are called technical or trade schools.</p>
<p>makes you a more well rounded individual...</p>
<p>...you could also look at schools with no core reqs</p>
<p>I said that too going into as a young engineering students. But it is important to be educated in non-engineering areas. Also, I actually enjoyed going to some of my non-engineering lectures, such as history. The funny thing is that even though I am an engineering student, I don't like any engineering lecture that I have ever had. I like engineering but the lectures are very boring.</p>
<p>A broad education makes you an educated person as a whole.</p>
<p>If you don't want Gen Ed requirements, there are schools that don't mandate them. Many people completely change their idea of what they want to major in after taking a variety of gen ed classes.</p>
<p>Look at it this way -- general ed courses, like history, art, film or literature. provide you the opportunity to meet people (particularly those of the opposite sex) who are not engineering majors at many colleges and to actually give you something to talk about at a party because no one else at any party is going to want to talk about math, science or engineering. That will also be true in later life. </p>
<p>Another thing -- you can find gen ed courses that are fairly easy to get through and once you are in college majoring in engineering you will find out how important it is to have at least one fairly easy course during the semester.</p>
<p>Plenty of engineering students say that before going in, and lo and behold, they're happy to have a class that's "easier" in the mix.</p>
<p>I hate them right now as a freshman since they are boring as hell and that's all I'm really taking, but I know that later on I'll appriciate having them in there...</p>
<p>At most state schools you can CLEP out of some of the GenEds</p>
<p>Joev, how is that revelant?</p>
<p>sounds relevant to me...the OP was complaining about the classes, and joev offered an alternative option...</p>
<p>Well said, celebrian and sook. </p>
<p>Those general Ed requirements that you may dislike may also become interesting (or like others have said, help improve your GPA). You may become a minor in that field in the future.</p>