I'm the next Johnny Depp

So I am a Senior Biochemistry major and Chemistry and History minor and the only planned course for a Biochem senior is a 4000 level class called Physical Chemistry or, as we in the business like to say, PCHEM.  Even though it is a two semester course, it's very nice to only have one class to take.  This allows my schedule to be very open so I can take a lot of bull crap, I mean joke, I mean easier classes.  Not saying 1st Year Writing is one of these, but it is a refreshing difference to the hard sciences.  Also, I am one class away from completing my History minor.  As you all know, or about to because of Course Request, Virginia Tech requires their students to fulfill a Curriculum for Liberal Education, or CLE.  All this being said, I must schedule PCHEM and one more history course for next semester, but I'm getting ahead of myself.  I'd like to focus on an Area 2 class, which to me are the weirder classes offered at VT, which will complete my CLE.  The class is called Introduction to Acting.
When I think of actors, I think of Hollywood, fame, fortune, drugs, scandal, all the good stuff, but this course is NOT that.  I thought the class would be us read a play or watch a scene from a movie and then do our best to reenact that scene.  Think again!  Most of our class time, which is 75 minutes all together, is spent waiting around as our instructor calls role.  Once this has been accomplished, we push our chairs aside and do an exercise called "Take a Walk."  We simply walk around the room and our instructor will give us different prompts such as "make no eye contact" or "walk like someone you admire who's in the room."  All very weird things to do, but we press through.  That's the entire class right there.  It's a very strange class and it makes me wonder are all actors and actresses as off the wall as my instructor?  Probably so, but weird or not, Jennifer Anniston is still easy to look at.
I've given you a lot of negatives, but the class isn't 100% bad.  The walking may get annoying, but a few times, the instructor has had us lay down belly-up on the ground.  Once we were lying down, he took us on a "journey" of our lives and had us imagine certain images from our past.  You may be asking yourself, does this guy drop acid before every class and while I think the answer is yes, it calmed the heck out of me and really hope we can do it again.  Also within the past two weeks, we received our first acting assignment which I'm pumped all the way up about.  It is a two person play in which one person is a doctor and the other is a disgruntled patient who refuses to pay the medical bill.  It's a really short play (not even 5 minutes), but there are two showings; in one I am the doctor and the other I am the angry patient.  Like I said, I'm so excited.  I'm probably going to get discovered and shoot straight to the limelight.  Good knowing you guys.
I'm just kidding about getting discovered and forgetting you all, but the class isn't what it seems.  But hey, if you are passionate about acting, go for it.  Every now and again, a local director will come in asking if people would like to be in a crowd scene for a play which is pretty neat and every great actor must start somewhere.  Or, if you're like me, were just curious and wanted and easier class.  Either way, don't expect agents wanting to sign you for a Hollywood blockbuster, but you can expect a different class in which you can really express yourself.