Interterm is now a last resort

Ah; the winter time. A time when students get to relax. A time when students can take a break from the heavy loads they take on during the Fall semester and revel in the light, five unit schedule that they will succeed in during the January Interterm.

This sounds ideal right? Wrong! The way January Interterm has changed has left it an outlet for procrastination and a last resort for students.

In theory, January Interterm was designed to be the time in which students had the opportunity to take classes that were not offered during the regular semester. Classes that were out of the norm and that were a way to broaden the college experience.

Nowadays, looking through the catalog for Interterm, we see the majority of classes are those that fulfill the general education requirements.

So now students are given the option of putting biology off until the Interterm of their senior year so that they can then complain about the fact that the class has been filled when they go to register. This then aids in the increasing number of students that have to return to school after graduating just to take one more general education course.

So now classes not offered during regular semester, like Color Photography, or Trips to Mexico or the Galapagos Islands, or even the mythical Basket Weaving are less and less an option due to a lack of interest, or a lack of students who can afford to spend the time.

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