Class Scheduling

Going to class five days a week is just beginning to become a hassle. This will be my fifteenth year reunion with this scheduling and this is a reunion I wouldn't mind having to experience again.

As of now, Piedmont offers fifty minute Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes, one hour and fifteen minute Tuesday Thursday class and night classes that last up to four hours. From my experiences these times are either to short for a class to long for a class or too long for a human attention span to keep a person awake.

Ever Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I walk into English with Dr. Almagno and by the end of ever class she states to use how we need more then fifty minutes to talk about historical writers and books we have read. I agree with her fully. But if we lengthen the class period of fifty minute classes I don't expect to be going three times a week like we are presently.

To go without a Friday class would be my favorite scenario but it is a far fetched dream. While looking up facts for Friday class I found many article from the University of Missouri that mentioned with no class on Friday, college students are more like to begin drinking earlier. You would think this would have any affect at an already dry campus but people work around it. Due to this article i find it hard to ever get ride of friday class.

Lastly are the four hour night classes. As said by Mike Peterson "Are kids even getting their moneys worth, I mean half the time the class is let out an hour early which to me isn't getting my moneys worth." Also the average attention span is close to 20 minutes for adults as said by NewsWise.com. This struck me by surprise due to the fact that I have never had a twenty minute class so how much information do I actually retain. How much information have I lost due to these class times. I guess well probably never know.