Let’s be honest. Most of us here choose the classes we choose because we need the credit. We’re trying to knock out our general education courses so we can transfer out of here as soon as possible. For most of us, credits are all the motivation we need. It would be nice to think that learning is our main goal, but generally speaking, the credits are the major motivator for being here. Believe it or not, a small majority of students are taking certain classes for absolutely no credit. It’s called auditing. Students are able to register as auditors for $15 a semester and sit in a class for the sole purpose of learning. These students receive no credit, and are not required to stay for the duration of the semester or complete any assignments, but are welcome to if they wish. To ensure that auditors don’t interfere with students who are registered for credit, students who hope to audit a class can only fill available space after all other students have registered. But that hasn’t really been a problem, seeing as how only about a handful of students participate in the auditing program here at Skyline each semester. Each college in the San Mateo County Community College District is hoping to also allow teachers to audit classes in the semesters to come. We think auditing is a positive addition to the learning environment on campus, especially for teachers. If a teacher audits a class, he/she may be able to learn from another teacher and pick up new methods that may be more valuable to our learning process as students. Ultimately, anything that helps teachers will also help students, and anything that helps students is definitely positive. We think teachers should be able to audit classes for this very reason, and we hope a good number of teachers choose to do so if given the option.