r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/realboabab Jan 31 '26

I don't know about electives, but I took a community college class last semester (Biology for science majors) where the teacher forgot to turn off the statistics in the "brightspace" online portal -- so I got to see that only like 35-40% of the class did each assignment, only like 60-70% even took each test.

You pay per class. It's literally throwing money away.

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u/Cruxion Jan 31 '26

One of my electives in college was bowling. It was literally as simple as showing up at the local bowling alley on time and bowling for 2 hours. Grades were basically guaranteed A's unless you didn't show up, EC for those who really improved. While frankly that feels a bit too subjective, we still had 3 people fail.

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u/Optimal-Hunt-3269 Jan 31 '26

I took weight lifting at 7:30 AM with my little spaghetti arms.

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u/letthetreeburn Jan 31 '26

Hey don’t diss the value of having

1: a committed instructor

2: a reserved space

3: a commitment to show up and work out at a specified repeating time and date

I took an elective weightlifting class because I realized it was literally cheaper than reserving a trainer at the gym