This is science, right? (source: picture-book.com)

Course requirements are a different beast for every Princeton student. For many an engineer, it’s LAs that are hard to come by. (Hint: A science fiction course can knock out that LA for you–and how!) And it’s probably true that for at least some English majors, passing a QR that isn’t Stars for Stoners is looking increasingly improbable as the last of high school calculus flees the brain.

But for me, it’s the ST–or, according to the new course designations announced last week, the STL, or “Science and Technology with laboratory.” I took a lab course freshman fall, (ENV 201 labs involve kayaking and counting fish.), but every semester, when it came to course selection time, I let the looming issue of my next five-hours-of-class commitment linger, as I filled up my schedule with SAs.

And today, as I rearranged the last semester before my senior year, I was called out on it. My dean sent me and about two dozen of my residential college peers an email reminding us that our “less-than-pleasant” distribution requirements existed, and kindly offering a list of “accessible” STs that we might consider.

Anyway, minutes before I received the email, I had actually enrolled in course on climate change that I’m genuinely interested in, an STX. But I thought I’d also share with you a quick list of STs that Woody Woo, English, and Soc majors might have a shot at. There are the basic gut courses, with your typical condescending and sexist nicknames: Rocks for Jocks (GEO 103), Stars for Stoners (AST 203), Clicks for Chicks (COS 109), and Emails for Females (COS 116).

But here are a few quality under-the-radar STs for those of us who may have put off that distribution requirement until senior year. Keep in mind that course designations are about to change, so these will soon be “STLs.” Not all are offered this semester.