My early college career was spent taking electrical engineering classes while also doing general

education classes. However, a lot of the general humanities I already had when I came to college
cause of my French classes in high school. I took a couple of social sciences that I will talk about
and the core communication classes. I will touch on the science and mathematics classes but
won't go in-depth due to the lack of interest and knowledge gained.
When I started college the core communication classes were easy as I had already taken
writing high school to prepare for college and none of the classes were as arduous as the high
school classes. The main thing I learned in those early classes was that not every teacher knows
what they are doing and that communication between teammates is important for projects to
work. The teacher would make the rubric for the assignments after we had submitted them so we
never knew what we were being graded on till we got the assignments back. We were graded
hard for the project in that class, but part of the issue was that roles weren’t properly defined yet
and we were freshmen who hadn’t been taught the ins and outs of working in a group for a
project of said size and scope. For the humanities seminar, I did AI and enjoyed the class for the
most part talking about and discussing AI. The main thing I learned in that class is that AI may
be evolving fast but the general workplace will have to change before we completely remove
basic jobs for AI. Speech class was generally easy as high school has relevant things that you
build on but talking in front of a class of thirty didn’t bother me especially since I got to present
over subjects that I wanted to talk about most of the time.
For the social sciences, I took Intro to History and Politics early on and didn’t learn much
outside of the fact our government is inept and greedy. I took those classes while Trump was
getting elected and in office, but I took psychology and that class was fine the main thing I
learned is that everyone is different in their ways, everyone learns differently, everyone
remembers events differently, and to be compassionate to your fellow man because we are all
just here along for the ride we call life.
I took a bunch of math classes as they were required for the engineering courses but I
generally disliked those classes and didn’t see the benefit of taking them other than them being
used for electrical circuits. I guess the main thing I took away from the math is that I'm glad that
we have computers to do a lot of the calculations that are required for most jobs which is why I
was kinda ok going into computer science. Speaking of science most of the science classes were
fine. I enjoyed physics and metallurgy was cool but whoever wrote the core lessons for chem one
didn’t like chemistry because it was all about physics, not chemistry. I didn’t like the other
applied physics class I took but part of that was I took it in COVID-19. Physics two was just high
school physics but slightly cooler and with more math. The lab part of the classes was more
enjoyable as it was more hands-on but I'd say the biggest takeaway is that science is intricate and
needs bright minds to continue the higher studies of the universe.

Overall I would say I've learned a lot from these courses but the biggest one is learning
how to be a better communicator and being able to work hard to figure out the problems that life
throws at you. The college has been a series of hurdles and learning experiences that have
broadened my horizons beyond my home town.