A plea for wisdom, not lectures

In four years at IU, I've never had a 4.0 GPA. Not that I couldn't; I've chosen not to. My parents consistently wonder why I don't strive for higher grades and why my GPA is never as good as they know and I know it could be. My brother, with grade weighting, will have better than a 5.0 GPA when he graduates high school in the spring. I'll be lucky to have a 3.4 GPA for my four years here.\nRecently, I was asked if I was in a lull about classes. I can see how many seniors might already be hit by senioritis -- the college version -- early. But I don't seem to be.\nOf my five classes, three are theater-related, and I work very hard to please the professors and do well. Most of the time, I don't do as well as I'd like. My other two classes are the kind that I've hated and dreaded every semester and this year was no different than any other class. In the past, I've taken many non-major courses in many fields that had cool course titles, had interesting reading lists or small class sizes. I must say that most of the University's non-major courses are designed to be complete idiotic wastes of time and money.\nFirst of all, I feel that I've received the right, after having sat in 100-plus person lecture courses during the last three years, to get some personal attention from my professors in my last year. \nI also feel that I've earned the right to a professor that will impart wisdom on me and not follow a standardized curriculum that offers the same tests no matter who one's teacher is. \nI also believe that if I don't attend class except for test or quiz dates and still get A's on those tests and quizzes that something is inherently wrong.\nAlthough I don't wish to mention the current course titles I'm enrolled in, one course I took a year ago, a TOPICS class is speech pathology, has to have been the worst class I've taken at IU. \nIt fell into the category of classes taught with more than 100 people, in a large classroom where individual attention was limited (though the professor learned all of our names quickly). The field of speech pathology (from a speech pathologist friend of mine) is a field that has little to work with at the undergraduate level, mostly speculation, that I had to endure for four months.\nAll I'm asking for from IU President Myles Brand is that, with IU's tuition hike, we students get teachers who teach us, impart wisdom and inspire us with a will to improve -- not classes with a stodgy figurehead who quotes from the book and teaches us nothing.