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  • Being a current undergraduate student at NJIT, I believe there should be more practical courses implemented not only at a graduate level but also at an undergraduate level. Most classes that I have taken have been heavy knowledge based. While yes, this helps provide a foundation of knowledge, it does not tell me what to do with it. After taking many of these courses, I am left wondering where and how will I ever apply this information. One way to fix this is by incorporating lessons about practicality of the learned information throughout the course. This would allow students to connect the dots and understand the lectures from a large perspective. When classes do not tend to be practical, students learn the information enough to do well on exams. However, after the exam most students tend to forget or not care about what they have learned. To me, this is one of the biggest flaws in the educational system. Practical classes provide us students with a medium to test our knowledge in a useful and pragmatic way.