Gen Ed Fo Lyfe

 I come from an Honors family. Taking general education was never really a thing for us; we took the "tough" classes and we let people know it. Unfortunately, every family has the outlier, and that person is me. Since the start of Sophomore year I have taken six or seven classes that are considered GenEd. And while I may sit and marvel at the things some people say, I am the girl who the kids in AP classes sit and judge. And I'm okay with that.
Let's give some examples of conversations I've had in a GenEd class:

1. Anonymous GenEder (referred to as AGE): Have we done this before?
Me: No, he just passed it out.
AGE: Oh, well, you know, sometimes I see into the future, so I was just wondering whether I had actually done this or if I'd just seen myself do it.

2. AGE: If you hit a baseball so hard it got to space and hit the moon, would it leave a crater, or bounce off?

3. AGE: What will you do if Romney gets elected?
Me: Well, there's nothing I can do, I'll just keep living I guess.
AGE: Oh...there's always something you can do (knowing glance).
Me: (Does not return the knowing glance)

I don't like the idea of going through high school and not taking a gen. ed. class. There is an entire subpopulation at Homestead High School that the top 10% of our class will never meet. And while not everyone in general education is fun, the stories you hear are amazing. And the one liners are hilarious.

Ex) Today, with two weeks left in the semester, someone in my econ class asked what the teacher's name was. Priceless.