I applied and got into the Honors program at my school before coming, and have very mixed feelings towards it. My school is fairly small (14,000 students), but it really does make an effort towards small classes no matter if you're in the Honors program or not. Only a few teachers in my 3 semesters has failed to learn my name, and in a lot of cases require that we go and see them and talk to them. I prefer going to small classes conducted like seminars for this reason. I can be myself and not be looked at as some kind of freak. In lecture classes I don't care about going (and indeed, the only lecture class I have this semester, I've skipped seven times).

But anyway, back to the Honors program. We're also required to take two honors classes a semester, but what I found is that that is a HUGE problem when you have 30 hours coming into your freshman year. All of the honors classes were entry-level classes that I had tested out of. Eventually, in our Honors program, you have to take Colloquium classes, and write a defensible thesis, something that I am not ready to do in the slightest.

So I was in conflict for a really long time. I am definitely going to grad school, like you. Do I want to stick with the Honors program and write a thesis that I don't want to write (and will have a hard time fitting in, because I'm studying in Scotland next fall, and changed my major to a completely different school this year, so I have tons of lower-level classes to retake), or focus on maintaining my high GPA (which is 3.95 at the moment) and just rely on that, plus Phi Beta Kappa (which I am assuming I will join) and participation in College Bowl to get me into grad school?

Well, here is where apathy took over for me, because I am going to drop the Honors program next semester.

But anyway, more applicable on the thread topic. After I changed my major to History from Business this semester, I was still taking Business classes that I did not care for in the slightest. In one of them, my grade has slipped to a likely B+, and in the other, I've maintained an A, because it's Accounting and all basically simple math work. I would say that the drop in one class is do to a lack of interest, and the belief that "Hey, I won't have to continue this line of study, so what does it matter?" Next semester, I'm taking classes that, for the most part, I will be interested in about (except for Physics): history, sociology, literature, mythology. I hope to be much more interested in those, and likewise both go to class more and try harder than I have been this semester.