I did not really ask so much in my easier classes that I could not test out of - I just did harder work that I came up with myself. Like in my math class, we were supposed to do some sort of experiential paper about a math subject, like a famous mathematician or some simple system.
I was DYING, looking at their subjects. I was dying FURTHER because the paper was clearly bunk, but this class filled my requirement and the advanced classes were outside my schedule time. So I wrote about chaos theory, which I had always wanted to learn about.
The teacher wrote on my assignment that she didn't know anything about it until I turned in the paper (no big surprise there). I made the class provide me something it wasn't built for, and it worked out.
Take the assignments you get in class and try to find a way to take them one step further, in order to challenge yourself. It's the only way to survive with your sanity intact, I think.
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Date: 2011-02-25 09:16 pm (UTC)I was DYING, looking at their subjects. I was dying FURTHER because the paper was clearly bunk, but this class filled my requirement and the advanced classes were outside my schedule time. So I wrote about chaos theory, which I had always wanted to learn about.
The teacher wrote on my assignment that she didn't know anything about it until I turned in the paper (no big surprise there). I made the class provide me something it wasn't built for, and it worked out.
Take the assignments you get in class and try to find a way to take them one step further, in order to challenge yourself. It's the only way to survive with your sanity intact, I think.