Aims of a BYU Education: Part 3

One of the four Aims of a BYU Education is intellectually enlarging.
This one is probably the most obvious reason why you'd attend a university, right?  We all want to expand our horizons and understand the world more.
But really, we're here because we want to learn.  There are three ways that we learn while at BYU:

1. Skills
In our major and in general education courses, we should be learning how to become sound thinkers, effective communicators, and use quantitative reasoning. 

2. Breadth
Part of becoming a disciple scholar is to have a breadth of knowledge.  We take general education classes to broaden our minds and pursue all truth.  As we learn more about other peoples and cultures, we become better stewards of the gospel. 

3. Depth
Depth comes in our major.  In our major we learn "what is fundamental and what is only peripheral" as we rigorously study and learn in one field.

This seems really uptight, but there are many ways I have "fulfilled" this aim simply by keeping a positive attitude.  When I took Physical Science 100, I felt like the knowledge was totally unapplicable to me and generally hard.  I had to find someone, i.e. my physics major roommate, who was passionate about the topic to talk to about it.  I feed off of her passion and was able to at least apply to concepts to my own life.  Not only did I learn more of the concepts from talking about it, but it also fueled our friendship and brought us closer together.

How have you kept a positive attitude in difficult classes?  How do you find the worth in topics you're uninterested in?