History...the easiest yet most boring class.

In college, everything is made to be harder than it should because of the lack of work assignments to sustain a grade, and because of super boring teachers. What should be an A or B is made into a D or C because of lack of work to maintain your grade.

But in high school, where there is more work, one can't help but observe that history may be one of the easiest classes in school...yet the most boring of all.

How hard or easy a class, for the most part falls on the shoulders of the teacher. The way they run their classroom and teach makes all the difference.

But honestly, no matter how you teach History, its always going to be boring. Most people moan that its a worthless class to take. That its pointless. To me, its important, you need to know the history of this country to help better future decisions. True, the next situation may not be similar as the last, but every little bit of knowledge makes the difference.

Yet, pending on how your teacher taught, this class can also be very easy and simple. With English, you have to deal with grammar and the rules of writing. With Science and Math, you have to deal with equations, formulas, experiments. But with history, its more of a memory game than anything else, remember dates, but most importantly remembering the events themselves. Understanding why it happened, and who was involved.

What makes history boring is that its not sustaining one's attention long enough because there is not much complex things about it to keep one's interest going...The more boring the class, the less work people will do for it, and the harder it does become.

Some teachers have tried to make history harder than it is, purely to keep students attention, such as constant quizzes and essays.

People do not care for history. Why would they care about what happened before they were alive? Why would political corruption long before the Bush days peak their interest?

Also what makes learning history in school very boring is the fact that H.S.s make the grave mistake of ONLY teaching about wars. Essentially every war is the same. And what student wants to learn about bloodshed day after day???

History can be even more boring because most teachers do not make it interactive. Would a student learn more from reading the pages or actually performing a scene in an act?

In college, as mentioned earlier, all this thought goes out the door. In college, classes are made to be so hard due to lack of assignments. One F, hell a low B or high C can bring you down an entire letter grade. It may be less homework but its sure as hell crucial to do well.

I have a history discussion class that goes with my history lecture class. I dislike my discussion class, not only because my teacher is an inane bitch, but because its got to many people. Believe it or not 23 students in a discussion class IS too much. She ONLY calls on the same people, which causes the rest of us to fail (even if we had our hands up). Its important to jump in there and just thoroughly read those documents (and some of the textbook) so you can steal the convo away from the discussion convo stealers.

A discussion class should honestly only consist of less than 10 people. In fact, I feel as though these lecture classes too are a waste. The topics no matter how interesting are ruined by the fact that there are too many people in there, and lazy professors who don't give much work because they do not want to grade it. Its too easy to fail.

When someone says college or a college class is easy, they really mean its hard. that is advice to really take away from all this in the end.