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In my time at Iowa State I have had the opportunity to take a variety of general
education courses. I have been able to learn about political science, geology, environmental
science, and anthropology. These courses were nice to take because they gave me a break from
all the technical courses and let me think in a different way. I also got to spend time learning
One class I really enjoyed was geology. I have always been interested in this type of
science and I am happy I was able to take that course. This class was especially interesting
because of how it relates to the real world. We got to learn about everything from the
atmosphere to the earth core and it showed me ways of thinking that I didn’t see before.
Another class that was interesting was my political science course. What made this class
so interesting is that I took it when I was in Madrid, Spain. Because of this I learned it with so
many different perspectives with there being a bunch of students from all around the world.
Part of the class was to conduct or own political experiment and show all the results from a
simulated real-world example. I enjoyed listening to the other students experiments because it
Overall, general education has been a great way to learn in different ways and gain new