What Have You Learned?

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

Have you learned a whole lot in college? Do you feel that you know a lot more now because of all of your college classes? Do you feel that you know a lot about your major?

I am a junior, nearly finished with my core classes for my major and minor. I have really good grades. However, due to lack of time, I never read most of the stuff that I needed to for my major. I feel...well...dumb. I feel like I don't know a whole lot....sigh...does anyone else feel this way? Is this just normal?

 

[Shyguyelite]

I honestly feel I have learned nothing.

Chemistry as a major, you don't learn many new things; just extentions of stuff from gen chem. Thats not to say its easy, its just not very thrilling learning how much work a gas does as it expands isothermally.

I don't want to take this college education for granted, but I do feel as if I have brought in something, and will leave with nothing.

Save a piece of paper that looks good and may entice people to give me money.

But its what you make of it.

As for feeling dumb, life is simple in that you usually specialize in something, and forget everything else. People you hear intellectually talk about a subject may very well be a specialist in that subject. Well, they would have to be.

As a chem major, I don't specialize in anything. So I feel quite dumb since I still cannot make my own toothpaste or good soap. Or make an elixer of life.

 

[metherion]

I feel like I haven't learned anything until I start trying to do my homework and stuff. Then I realize just how much new stuff I've taken in and how I wouldn't even have understood tthe questions when I started college.

I'm a chem. engineer btw.

Metherion

 

[Matt.9:22]

I know I've learned alot. I chose to major in a language (spanish) that I didn't speak (still not fluent but getting there), so everyday I went to class I was learning something new (and still am). Pray for me that I reach fluency! I have 1.5 years left before graduation.

 

[JonF]

I’m a senior and currently applying to graduate programs for pure mathematics. I feel that I’ve learned a lot about my major for where I’m at. But I’ve done a lot of reading, studying, and independent study programs that are above and beyond the normal classes at this level.

 

[Nostromadu]

I'm learning loads in Computer Science, but everything else is just review... hopefully my sophmore year will be better.

 

[shaslove]

the more i go to college i feel as i know less, since there is so much i dont know...maybe i have learned some discipline?

 

[JayCdn]

I feel as if I have both learned and forgotten a great deal. I will often speak of what I learned recently with whoever chooses to listen, then they will come back to talk about it with me 6 months later and I have a vague recollection of what they are saying.

I have learned to do pretty good research and write quite well. I don't have the graetest marks (I think I have about a B+ average) but the way North American education works out, it is often the case that grades do not at all reflect amount learned.

I have become excited about things I learn in sociology, philosophy, math, pure math, biology, ecology, botany to the point that I actually try to find things relating to them outside of class. I greatly enjoy school and though I do not retain everything I come across I have definitely learned a lot, though not always specifically form classes or texts.

 

[Cordelia]

I think most people know a heck of a lot more about their major than they think they do. It's easy, when you've been overwhelmed with work, too think of the masses of knowledge out there and feel 'dumb' when you're anything but!

It took me months after I'd finished with school to realise the huge amount I'd learned, and the skills I'd gained to learn even more! Now I flip through big books on the subjects I studied and get the stuff so much, it's so cool

 

[ACADEMIC]

I learned tons. College completely changed my life. The thing I most learned is how to learn and think. That has continued to change my life both through graduate and self-directed study.

 

[fuzzyh]

If you don't feel like you are learning anything new. Continue in your degree and then go on to grad school. Trust me you'll find out how much you didn't know about things in grad school.

Best thing you can do is learn some critical thinking skills in college and a few things about your major. Those are the areas that you really need down to complete college.

 

[Eakenyon]

I switched my major from Biology to Sociology, and this is my third semester taking Sociology classes. I feel like I have learned so much about the world and people and why we do the things we do. I started out with this major because I had some vague ideas that it would help me with my future goals, but now that I'm taking the classes I'm so glad I did it, because this is stuff that genuinely interests me.

I think that if you're in school and you feel like you're learning nothing--you're not in the right area of study. You won't learn if you're not interested.

 

[Asherz]

I'm a physics major. Some daysI feel that I've learned a whole lot and others I feel like I haven't learned much. I've defnitely learned things. I've learned a liitle more math and I've learned more concepts, but the number of classes in which that knowledge came from is very small. I think I've had maybe 7 or 8 classes that I feel that I really learned valuable material. The rest just seems to be a rehash of what I learned in high school or just unimportant.

 

[Aisynia]

I'm a wildlife biology major, and I feel that I've learned a considerable amount of information since I've come to college then I could have ever hoped to learn in High School. Not to mention that this major is always building upon itself, and I could never possibly know everything there is to know about it.

 

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

I just really feel....dumb...sigh...

 

[Paris9226]

I am a history major and I honestly feel like there is nothing that I already did not know before taking my classes. I feel like I am wasting my time trying to finish it, but I have to since I want to teach. I am at a stage where I feel like all I am doing is paying for my degree and nothing else. I am sure grad school will be much more rewarding.

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

I learned about squid sex.







And um.... not to procrastinate, to be self disciplined, how to be organized and plan my time, and how to find information I need regarding just about anything. I have also learned the value of truly good teachers.

I've learned that, contrary to what I believed since like... 3rd grade... I actually do not suck at math.

 

[SecretBlessings]

Yes, I've learned so much by majoring in my field of study which is psychology & child development

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

Yes, I've learned so much by majoring in my field of study which is psychology & child development

Human growth and development was one of my favorite classes. I signed up for child psychology and adolescent psychology next semester.

 

[Jody7818]

If you feel dumb, then maybe what you have learned has come really easy do you. Maybe you should pursue a more advanced degree if you want a challenge.

IMO, I believe you really begin to learn once you start working using your major. I thought I knew alot when I graduated. When I began working, I learned so much more. And there are tons of stuff I still haven't learned in my field. It will take a lifetime.