I had a friend complain to me today, that we should not be required to take classes we will not need for our major. While it was painful for me to attend some of my classes like theater 101 or wrack my brian for hours on material that I would never really remember after the exam, these classes are important.

First, taking breath classes opens your mind to different perspectives, a vital skill for the real world. Some of my classes it wasn't more the content then just interacting with people who think differently than me. In classes that are for your specific major you normally are surrounded by mostly like minds. In breath classes its a hodgepodge of different students that gives you a real perspective on how the world will be.

Second they make us well rounded. There are some basic things we should know. As a society we should be well educated. By enriching our lives with different mediums of information from the sciences to the arts we are going to be more apt to make more connections to other parts of our lives.

I know it sucks to take classes that may or may not interest us, but in the end i think they are worth it.