All the weird, wacky and wonderful courses we wish were offered at Wash. U.

College is nothing if not a natural habitat for important-sounding buzzwords, and assuming you haven’t spent your time under a soundproof rock, it’s likely you’ve heard the phrase “liberal arts education” a time or two (hundred).

While Washington University students often complain about the uselessness of general requirements and about how difficult they are to fulfill, I found that the math course I took last semester (which I enrolled in primarily because of the Applied Numeracy requirement) was more interesting than I gave it credit to be.