So I've recently gone back to school to for social service work with intention of working in a youth shelter and I've really started to resent having to take an elective.
Basically the elective I'm in has no relation to the other stuff I'm taking and is fully asynchronous, so no class or lectures only readings and assignments. For me that's almost impossible because I have ADHD and some pretty serious executive dysfunction. It doesn't help that the elective has a way bigger workload.
Just wanna know if I'm not alone in feeling like this.
Some of the electives I took ended up being the most interesting experiences of my education. Maybe you took a lousy course, because a lot of courses are intended as broad introductions to the basics of the field, rather than preparing you for cutting-edge research (or more likely, current industry trends).
It may be that your program is just a bad fit for that style of learning, but I'm really thankful that I had the opportunity to learn directly from top-tier experts, and to spend time with people outside of my program whom I would never have met otherwise.