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Now, we all know Boston University\u2019s College of Communication is a top-notch school with the best in terms of academic classes, but we seldom hear about the other classes available to us as BU students.\u00a0 It\u2019s true, while completing our general requirements, we\u2019ll likely be exposed to a wide variety of classes in the many colleges throughout our university.\u00a0 We\u2019ll probably take an incredible philosophy course or a foreign language course we\u2019ll fall in love with.\u00a0 But what I\u2019m talking about are PDPs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s a PDP?\u201d you may be asking yourself (along with the question, \u201cDoes BU purposefully abbreviate everything to confuse new students\u201d).\u00a0 I\u2019ll be honest, don\u2019t ask me what \u201cPDP\u201d exactly stands for, but I do know they\u2019re BU\u2019s Physical Education Credit Classes<\/a>.\u00a0 Offering an insanely huge amount of diversity, students can sign up from anything to rock climbing, yoga, or even scuba diving with a PDP course!\u00a0 You can check out over a hundred different classes in categories like court sports, dance, mind and body, aquatics, and more!<\/p>\n Courses are usually somewhere in between 0.5 and 2.0 credits, and since our regular academic classes usually only take up 16 credits, why not fill up the remaining two credits available to you with a class like cardio-jazz funk?! Or if you have the GPA requirement for it, you could go crazy and literally overload with PDPs! (Yes, I am overloading with Hip-Hop, Tango, Springboard Diving, and Intermediate Sailing, but don\u2019t judge me).\u00a0 If your still hesitant to sign up for one (not sure why you would be after you read \u201crock climbing\u201d) just think about all the added benefits.<\/p>\n For one, it would definitely have you visit the gym more frequently. \u00a0I know many of you are familiar with our state-of-the-art fitness center, but probably\u00a0 only familiar with it from afar.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be honest, I visited the gym here in my entire freshman year probably a total of two times and know plenty of students that did the same.\u00a0 Perhaps a cooking class that meets for two hours a week would help you learn a little more about FitRec.\u00a0 It could even give you the little extra push you need to actually start visiting our gym independently!<\/p>\n You\u2019re also bound to meet some great friends.\u00a0 Whether you\u2019re taking a class in something you already have an interest in and find people with common interests, or find someone who is just as clueless as you are about the class; you\u2019re bound to make some great friends!<\/p>\n Finally, I know things can get hectic as a college student. With a part-time job, school work, and classes; scheduling some fun can be extremely beneficial.\u00a0 Step out of your comfort-zone a bit and sign up for that dance class you\u2019ve always wanted to learn.\u00a0 The Pass\/Fail system of PDPs won\u2019t give you the same amount of stress a regular class would (since passing is only graded on attendance) and you\u2019ll come out of it with a new skill.<\/p>\n By the way, you still have time to sign up for a PDP on the student link! As for me, I can\u2019t wait for the weather to clear up and sailing to begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now, we all know Boston University\u2019s College of Communication is a top-notch school with the best in terms of academic classes, but we seldom hear about the other classes available to us as BU students.\u00a0 It\u2019s true, while completing our general requirements, we\u2019ll likely be exposed to a wide variety of classes in the many … Continue reading Richie: PDPs: Schedule a Bit of Time For Fun!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1613,7285],"tags":[7303,1216,7302,7304,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}