Thinking About EV Efficiency

When I came back to school and met with an advisor last summer before registering for my fall semester classes, I was gobsmacked to find that the university was requiring me to take RHET 105, a 100-level freshman composition course. A perfect storm of stupidity happened to flail together: the Transfer Credit Office did not accept the freshman writing course I took in my first undergraduate degree program to satisfy this requirement (for whatever reason); SAT and ACT scores could not be submitted after admission to satisfy this requirement (my scores are more than twenty years old, but otherwise easily exceed the minimum for composition credit); none of my masters or doctoral coursework apparently satisfied this requirement, nor the fact that I have the master’s degree and have taught at 3 universities including this one . So, here I am—a victim of mindless university bureaucracy, stuck in a course that is, at best, a waste of my time. The only redeeming quality here is the fact that