We attend college to further our education. Those who make it into the Honors College pride themselves on achieving and maintaining the highest standards of excellence in academics. After all, those who do well in school go on to get good jobs and do well in life.

The motto of the Honors College is “it’s not more work, it’s different work.” This, for me, was best exemplified by my Honors Anthropology class. The homework was very easy; it consisted entirely of reading chapter from the textbook, and you didn’t even have to answer questions to prove you did it. The only way our teacher would use to check if we did it or not was by calling on a random student to give a summary from that chapter. We spent most of our time in that class listening to lectures about various anthropology topics, including Stonehenge, Muslim culture, and even coal miners in West Virginia. We also went on several field trips to further our learning. There were only four grades in the entire class: our midterm grade, our finals grade, the grade of a ten-page research paper we had to write, and the grade of a presentation that had to accompany said paper.

My experience in Anthropology class was unlike any classroom experience I had ever had before, and while it was challenging, it was ultimately rewarding. This made the class the very definition of “it’s not more work, it’s different work.”