Busy Work? Oh, Please!

United States
February 2, 2009 10:23pm CST
I am a student in college, and I will be graduating in 4 1/2 months. However, at my school, we are forced to take a "Career Development" class to teach us how to write resumes and do job interviews and stuff. That's all fine and dandy - if I didn't already know how to do it. The work we are given is mostly busy work, and I find myself feeling like my time is being wasted. I have a huge national exam in June to study for! They want me to do busy work not even related to that exam? It seems fairly pointless to me, and a waste of my tuition money that I have to pay for the class. Does anyone else have a lot of busy work that doesn't seem to be related at all to their degree?
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• United States
5 Feb 09
I had a class that sounds exactly like that. The last quarter before I graduated college was a class called "Professional Procedures and Portfolio Development". Everything that you mentioned was what we also did: writing resumes and learning about job interviews. We had already learned that in high school as well, so that class was really a waste of time. We did multiple types of resumes, cover letters, thank you letters, etc. We did a mock interview at the end, but they didn't really ask anything related to what we were studying. The only class that I had that was more useless than the Professional Procedures and Portfolio Development class was a class called "Group Dynamics". As you probably could figure out by the name of the class, it was all about groups. We learned the types of groups, how groups could work together, advantages of groups, and other group related information. Uh, didn't we already learn experience with groups ever since we started school? That class was so boring and useless and a waste of money. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about useless classes and busy work anymore.
• United States
3 Feb 09
That is really stupid, it should be an optional thing, I am sure some people would need help and want to take it, but if you have no problem with it they should not make you fork out the extra tuition money. In my senior year of high school our final project was to make professional resumes and do mock interviews with local business owners, that was helpful, but I would rather not have to do it again. That kind of thing should only be mandatory in high schools. I don't want to go into how much busy work I have to do, just about every class, ugh!