Caveat

WARNING: this course puts your health at risk.

This was how we were greeted at our documentary research methods class today. The warning was followed by an unnecessarily long powerpoint presentation about every possible reason why we should drop the course. They included but were not limited to:

having a full course load

any possible concerns about your gpa

being prone to procrastination

being on academic probation

taking cmns 260 at the same time, especially if you've never taken stats

having a social life

having a part time job

being lazy

planning any sort of vacation during the course

having nervous disorders

pregnancy and/or breastfeeding

chronic health problems

He then went into a long diatribe about how he only ever gives out C's and how the course work takes at least 15 hours per week.

The room was a sardine tin of incredulous students. While I can understand that he wants to cut down the number of people in the class with horror stories, the fact of the matter is that it is a required class. People aren't there out of interest. They're there because they won't graduate without it.

So he's scaring us why?