<p>Do you like the fact that you have lighter gen. ed. requirements? hehe</p>
<p>At VT we have exactly the same gen. ed. requirements as any other major. So I guess the answer would be no.</p>
<p>No. I wish I didn’t have any gen ed requirements… at least not strict ones.</p>
<p>At my school we only get one less Arts/Humanities class. But since I’m minoring in art, this is irrelevant to me, so my answer is still a ‘no’.</p>
<p>I already had less GEs to take because I took community college classes before I went to college. I only had about 4 or 5 GEs to take so it wasn’t that bad.</p>
<p>Well the operative principle here is while the formal gen ed requirements usually are no different between engineering and history majors (for example), pretty much all the classes that a history major would have to take to get their degree would fall under an engineer’s definition of a gen ed class.</p>
<p>Personally, I really thought taking a lot of the gen ed classes was a huge waste of my time. If the requirements were a little looser and I could have taken the classes I wanted to apply towards my gen eds, it might not have been such a terrible experience. As it stands though, the gen eds did nothing but give me another class to not care about and destroy my GPA, as I found it difficult getting myself to care about those subjects.</p>
<p>yea i had to take a few…at our school engineers just take the whole gen ed requirement on the chin and sign up for the most ridiculous classes ever like ‘human sexuality’, omg the stories i heard haha</p>
<p>I placed out of two general education classes due to APs and still thought most of them were a giant waste of my time. The one thing they were good for is giving you a fourth class when you’ve got three brutal ones within your major so you can stay full time.</p>
<p>At Clemson we have the same gen ed requirements except our science & math courses are built into our curriculum haha</p>
<p>I definitely an enjoying the lighter GE requirements. Not only do I not have to take a foreign language, but I also take a (debatably) easier writing class, and can swap out a useless gen-ed class for a potentially fun and easier one.</p>
<p>I’m at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry, chemical engineering, and after I take a single upper division humanities course, I will be finished with my GE’s. =) College of Chemistry is the most lenient on accepting AP credits–even College of Engineering has a cap on AP credits and requires a second semester of English.
Yup…I get to be socially crippled and instead take more technical electives.</p>