Of the many topics covered at UF's Board of Trustees meeting last week, the one that piqued our interest was a class called "The Good Life."
The class was tested on a group of students in the spring, and if things go well enough UF hopes to massively expand enrollment in the course. According to Provost Joe Glover, this class will give incoming freshmen a chance to bond over coursework instead of off-campus activities or university athletics.
While the intentions seem pure enough, we wonder how the bond between two students who take an easy class together would be any stronger than a friendship developed by any other means. When we look back on our first year at UF, we try not to remember the awkward group assignments and the people we hung around with while we were still adjusting to being college students-opting instead to remember the fun things we did with friends outside of class.
Changing up the entire UF experience seems to be en vogue these days, but we hope that when we come back to campus for tailgates every fall we will not be greeted by some bizarro-world Student Body that really enjoys going to class together every day. That would just be too weird.
We would like to know what UF's idea of the "good life" is, though the more we think about it, the more we're convinced it would be a boring class. But here's hoping they teach kids that "whether you broke or rich you gotta get biz" and that "having money's not everything, not having it is."
