After reading this article and reading about the movie Waiting for Superman, i feel that college today in most cases is a machine. Colleges are pumping out students with a wide verity of degrees some beneficial and many not so beneficial. I feel that college is being dumbed down alot. I have many hard classes this semester, one class i have a 30 page research paper in. Other classes require me to take a certification test. I feel that these classes are hard and have value to them in personal life and a job setting. I have also had classes that require very little. I was once asked by my parents if i was enjoying school and if it was hard. I told them that i would have liked to have gone to Pitt because i feel i would have learned more. To be honest freshmen and softmore year was very easy for me. But since i am a second semester junior i have ran out of easy classes to take. I have taken two online classes for my major and both were very hard. My major is Sport management. This is in no way an easy major. I currently manage a gym in Indiana, I use all of the information i have gained from my major classes while i work. I feel that some majors are “bullshit” to be honest. I feel that a certain amount of coasting is happening in this university along with other state schools. I feel school is what you make it. Choose harder classes. I am a A/ B student. The amount of work i do outside of class is not alot. I have been able to budget my time effectively and have a job. I feel that some people need to study more and that effects directly to their GPA.  I feel that if i do study more i will have straight A’s. I have had a few bad semesters to be honest but i think i have had four classes that i got a C in.  I feel that advisors should be working more with students. We pay to have a quality education and i feel at times i am not getting that at this state institution. 

I know that IUP offers some amazing programs, out of every state school IUP has the best Exercises science program. i was in this major but i found that i would rather be managing then being staff. I feel that it is the students responsiblity to step up and try to better themselves and the country as a whole, to do their part in society. I feel that college has been dumbed down to a point in some majors. Even thou my major is relatively new, the last 30 years. I feel that i have actually seen it grow since ive been a part of it. I am a member of two different journal publications and i like to keep up to date with the information and news coming from leaders of my industry.

I would have like to start college off with very hard classes but that is not what happend. I find it very hard to belive that only 30% of graduating highschool seniors go to a four year program. I did not find in the artilce if this was nation wide.