SHOULD I DO DEBATE IN COLLEGE?
Voting ended onJul 25, 2025
- they travel overseas which is swag
- they also do interp which is cool I guess
- ratemyprofessors says that the instructor is like the best
- I have the same professor for my rhetoric class so that’s a solid letter of recommendation if you think about it. Maybe could hook me up with internships?
- 7th grade was the only year I didn’t do debate and during that year I would practice writing cases on like random topics because I missed debate a lot so what if I’m the same way and then I waste time longing for debate instead of studying for class
- When I met up with the debate team at the college’s like club booth things they seemed to like me I think
- I’m a biotech major so I won’t have much time doing anything debate related after the one semester of my rhetoric class
- I’m planning to go to law school anyway so it keeps my writing chops up
- My high school debate partner is doing debate at his community college so I can’t be weak
- What if I can help the debate kids at my high school team with whatever research or cards I make on the college team??
- The team only does policy and I only have experience in LD + PF + Parli and lowkey policy scares me like what if I suck
- I got an email saying I’ll have to do an impromptu speech in the first week I think?? What if I suck so bad they hate me and then I have to go to my rhetoric class with the same professor and he knows who I am
- Classes are only at night and I have a loaded schedule because I have to take two science classes with labs. One lab is from 02:30 PM - 06:20 PM bro I’ll have like no free time
- I’m taking a debate/argumentative rhetoric class anyway this semester so why stress myself out with the debate team?
- my schedule is lowkey crazy loaded because being a biotech major is a masochistic choice
- college is already stressful why make it worse
- what if I actually suck at debate and my circuit is just bad so that’s why I’m good here and once I move to their team I’m like laughably bad ?
- my mom thinks it’s a bad idea
- what if it makes me want to switch my major I can’t have that happen I have a plan with biotech
- I’m planning on minoring in legal studies anyway so I’ll probably just take the classes for that and that’ll scratch my debate itch
- Stress once again I have a crazy ass schedule what if that impedes on my overall quality of life
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