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Mitchell Kharnak     (I remember definitely previously posting this. Maybe I did not click the right button. Nevertheless, here is my monologue.)

Hello, my name is Mitchell Kharnak. I truly enjoy mathematics and physics. Being that I am very good at those subjects and can feel numbers in an unusual way definitely makes them more appealing in my eyes. However good I may be in those fields I am devastatingly incapable of memorizing loads of purposeless information. This is the primary reason why in high school I was so terrible at the subject, Spanish. It is not the language that did not appeal to me, but the illogical memorization factor that the course required. With mathematics and physics on the other hand, one can understand the subject. With that understanding naturally comes the memorization. What I do not understand is why most other freshman and I must fulfill a liberal arts requirement. In the field of accounting I will not use most liberal arts subjects, therefore I do not understand the purpose of being made to take said subjects. Take several subjects that I am taking now for example. Although philosophy is quite an interesting subject it has absolutely nothing to do with accounting whatsoever. In which part of filling out financial statements, tax forms, or balance sheets will aristotle take his place? Now take anthropology; in which part will hunting and gathering take its place in such work. English, I somewhat understand. What I mean by that is one must know how to write well in a TECHNICAL  sense, not a LITERALLY sense. Unfortunately, my fellow accounting majors and I are being forced to take such LITERARY courses. In which part of previously stated accounting activities will heroism, or shakespeare come up? I truly feel that my youth is being squandered with these courses. I want to take courses that I am interested in, isn’t that why everyone attends college. I do understand why I am being forced to take courses that I do not enjoy, will not use, will forget 5 minutes after they are over, and that I will honestly not perform so well in. Therefore, I feel this liberal arts requirement should not be enforced. Students must have the choice of which classes to take. I want to stop wasting my time in courses that recreate the feeling of high school and be allowed to take accounting course so I can become the accountant I was always meant to be.