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practitifln )ls. ’ Health As : ain a ratioG 'tents. Km ; ratio byanv ts, A&M nts perdi "lereareonr, at Beutel, 10 adequaif The Battalion Aggielife Page 3 • Wednesday, September 29, 1999 •xpenmeit d what is ht nost cosk:: I more per; door askirr umbers ste d effective;, ne day retiir hange, but ere. die student actual and.-J o work,”te i the pain iJ ruising Through College Students use easy classes to painlessly bolster their grade-point ratios yb-hi you -tAVSWT I * CMANCfl ro tec Your PEOlHlTf tFoRMfp | r ACt! BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion s midterm grades approach, and for freshmen at Texas A&M fortunate enough to have their grades sent home, it may be time to start lookms/or s^me.^ classes to register for in the spring? hile some students may begrudge the tipi Gritty fbr ng one of two universities left in tne natidn to require r kinesiologies as part of its core requirements, some dents may soon find these classes are more beneficial n they thought. Kinesiology courses can be used to e one’s grade-point ratio (GPR) and also work off the shmen 15.” Kaycee Moreland, a senior speech communication ma- said even though her kinesiology class is at 8 a.m., the ra grade points will be nice. “I took internjj^t2 , fc^-»w44iiniing because 1 was a life- ard this pqst summer, anoK(elt it would be an easy fss,” Moreland said. “As a graduating senior, 1 took a ki- Ssiology that would nor bef challenging for me because it res me more titpe todmWentratelon the harder classes my major.” J \ ^ « While some,students may feel kinesiology classes are t~tKn dem’gndingrf&r a bsie-hounxmrse, the option to change gradfhg standard to pas^iail is available. J “The o mv re a s o n. LhaTl w o u 1 d change my class tp fmss fail, which wouTdiiot count on my GPR, would be if I uldn’t get out of bed enough to attend my swim class at a.m.,” Moreland said. Besides kinesiology classes, students may opt to take her electives to boost their GPRs, such as music classj sket weaving, floral arranging or other classes. Meredith McClung, a senior nutritional sciences ma- — fjk said she took a music class because she was interest- ’ed in it, and it seemed like it would be a good break from (tCT-'-vr* her core classes. “i wasn’t expecting it to be hard. But I didn’t take the class '?pecause I thought it would be easy, but because I found the ;subject matter interesting,”♦*McClung said. “It is nice to be ^.^eable to add cultural classes or electives into your schedule ^ t0 balance out your course load. When I was figuring out my [schedule, I though it would be a good stress reliever.” Another option for students to take advantage of, es pecially during their years as an underclassmen, is the two-hour course Center for Academic Enhancement 101, Succeeding in College. , /ulan Macias, a sophomore general studies major, said it takes up a lot less time than other cqurses but is bene- ffcial b^alisd it teaches students how to study. 5 ^Sdccet’dfnghn College is a sure ‘A’,” Macias said. “I heard about the class from my adviser, who suggested it to help get my GPR up. Hopefully after this semester I won’t have to take electives to boost my GPR, because 1 haven’t heard about too many other courses that are sup posed to be easy here.” Matthew McWilliams, a junior finance major, said he ad vises students to ask people who have been here for awhile about classes are easy because they have more experience. “My brother was a senior when 1 was an incoming freshman here, and he told me what to take,” McWilliams said. “He told me not to take chemistry, but to take geol ogy, which is ‘rocks for jocks.’ I also took Management 105[Introduction to Business] because I was told it was nop much work, itwas fun and it would boost my GPR, too.” .Micha^pCmebray, a senior education major, said MGiMa^tOS was a fun and easy class. Tt was a really easy ‘A,’” Ghebray said. “The tests were pretty^ direct and wergjswsically over definitions.” Ghebray saklTre^ecommends taking easy ‘A’ classes although hj^^tfoes not know too many of them. “iGk5u are ever in doubt, just go to Blinn,” he said, nything is easier there.” McWilliams said it is good to take a class that does not relate to one’s major every semester to prevent burnout and hopefully find an easy class to take. “I took Anthropology 351 [Classical Anthropology] as an elective, and it turned out to be very easy,” McWilliams said. “All we had for that class was a course packet. It had all the class notes and old exams. The tests were just the old tests rearranged.” McWilliams said students have to search for the easy classes, but they are there. If students are lucky enough to find an easy professor, McWilliams suggests they keep taking him or her until they run out of his classes. 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