Tim, those basic classes are not typically hard at all or "weed out classes" i just finished college in May...problem is, who wants to write a paper when they can play on autocad when that is what they enjoy doing and what they THINK is more important to learn and become good at?

i found my wildlife classes to be VERY easy, but they were much more intensive and muuuuuch more difficult than any of those "basic" classes...were talkin 20+ page research papers and projects for wildlife management and ecology classes that had to be dang near perfect just to get looked at and taken seriously for a grade...after a 2 grammer mistakes you dropped a letter grade each time...most of those basic classes, i hardly wrote anything even though they were english and writting classes...

those "basic classes" gave me the foundation and skills to complete those big research papers...they gave me what i needed to get through college...you can go back and look at my transcripts...i think i got 1 B in the major..rest was all A's..anything else was hit or miss..A's-C's..its just tougher to devote time to those basic classes because at the time, they seem useless...but take it from me, do well in them and take all you possibly can from them...make those english and writting teachers your friends...i recieved help from them many times in writting papers for my major classes...

those basic classes also can seem difficult because they are typically a class with more students, less hands on stuff, and by the end of the course, most of those professors dont even know your name compared to your major classes which are usually smaller...

your years at college fly by and you cant go back and change what you did or didnt do...take it from me....take everything you possibly can from each and every class...as useless as it may seem at the time, theres something to be taken from EVERY class...devote time to each and every one of them...take good notes...do good work...study hard...you'll be glad you did in the end of it all...even if that means not heading to the woods to hunt, although that seems like a huge sacrafice, take it from me, missing hunting time those couple years of college will lead to a better education and a better job in the end of it...fail college and you might never have the time and money to hunt...

take your love for hunting as a motivation to get good grades and to get your work done...thats honestly how i motivated myself...it can be hard to have such self discipline, but i would NOT let myself head to the woods to hunt or fish till ALL my work on my list was done and i was SURE i was caught up on studying....i missed the rut in bow season one year for training that i may never use, but it already helped me land jobs just because its on the resume...you gotta treat college as a full time job...its easy to say and think about...but you gotta devote the time AFTER class...you cant be happy with just "passing a class" you gotta raise your goals..that GPA is more than a couple numbers that noone looks at...ive been asked about it in interviews and almost all my applications want transcipts..

good luck Tim....from what ive read, id say you gotta change your view on college before it goes down the crapper...believe me...if you could dig up some of my posts about college 4 years ago, you'd see i complained about some of those "useless" basic classes that i thought was a money scam...the guys on here told me the same things i told you (in alot less words...) and i found it to be VERY true...without doing well in those classes, i wouldnt have done well in college...