<p>Does anyone else college have some sort of required reading that need to be fulfilled?
I'm an incoming freshman and they gave us a single book at orientation (or will give the book if you haven't attended your orientation date yet) and I don't like the book at all. I did had required reading in HS but I always could choose which book I wanted to read (I could had tested on the entire Harry Potter and Twilight series and still passed RR).</p>
<p>ugh we did! My professor luckily(but still annoying) didn’t really do anything with the book. We talked about it for like a class or two but that was really it. I never hated a summer book so much! plus we had to go to a talk for the author and he was such an a-hole</p>
<p>^We have yet to meet the author (Thank god it’s not required to actually meet the author of a book I don’t like). I can imagine him having many critics (based on my fellow freshmen response). What book you read? Mine is “No Impact Man”- interesting story but all too… familiar.</p>
<p>I’ve only had required reading during a class. I never had to read anything before the class started.</p>
<p>Mine was called the end of the country. It was actually based in my state and although the subject was kind of interesting, the way I think the author style in terms of his writing and his overall attitutde was so annoying and just ughh!</p>
<p>I need to go grab my copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks out of the car and finish reading it…I took it with me to DC for the car ride but we started talking about my brother’s girlfriend and I never ended up opening it…</p>
<p>@nan: seemed a lot like No Impact Man, the author. The way he write his story is like… reading a blog not a quality effort book.</p>
<p>I have to read “Class Matters” to go along with the them for the year: justice. I’ll get it at orientation</p>
<p>@SerenityJade that is an amazing book. I read it a couple of years ago as a required reading assignment for a science summer program I was in and it was really good. Henrietta Lacks has also come up when I didn’t expect it in class and is a useful person to know about. </p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman and our required reading assignment is “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo. I’ve heard that it’s really good, but I haven’t started it yet. For us, meeting the author is required.</p>
<p>@descuff: yess!!
@SerenityJade and @Jazmine1423: is that the story about the woman whose breast cancer cells are still growing?my genetics teacher told us about it last year and it sounds so interesting!</p>
<p>@nan1013 No, it is not about a woman who’s breast cancer cells are still growing.</p>
<p>My university has chosen that book as the required reading for the incoming class. I like it so far…but then again, I have packed it up for about two weeks. :shrug:</p>
<p>It’s cervical cancer cells that double every day provided they are in their growing medium. And they’re still growing. The book is about the ethics of it. I’m like a hundred pages in and it’s a good book.</p>
<p>Yeah, every year my schools gives a book for the first years to read and we discuss it in our first year class.</p>