One of the great things about college is that you can take electives that have nothing to do with your major or even have any significance. You take them for fun and as a break from your regular hectic schedule. So a friend of mine convinced me to take a sports ethics and gambling class. We learned about everything from horse racing bets to the euro lottery.

We talked in depth about the ‘euro millions' for some reason in our class and about how it is one of the biggest lotteries because it has nine participating countries so when someone doesn't win that week, it rolls over to the next week and becomes larger and larger. You can check the UK lotto results online and we did so and talked about the chances of winning and how many people have played and how long it has been since the last winner and even the average amount of time between winnings.

The class takes something simple that most people take mindlessly (like buying a lotto ticket) and goes into great depth and actually spells out your chances of winning. It is really cool to actually look so far into statistics but in a fun way that the whole class enjoys.

We even get to go to casinos and beforehand we learn about the games and we talk about winning and odds in games like poker and blackjack and the slot machines. And then we go as a class (there is a casino about 30 minutes from our university) and we get to play with an allotted amount of money. And then afterwards we go back and talk about what happened. We even got to watch the movie 21 when we talked about card counting.

And then for a few weeks we discussed horse racing and we went to the track and talked about what the racing forms meant and it was actually a lot of fun to go as a class. I have been going to the race track my whole life with my dad and knew already most of the things the teacher was talking about but it was still a lot of fun to go and experience it all in a class setting.

It is great that the school offers classes like these. We are able to have a great time, while relaxing and actually learning.

My friend's sister is a teacher for the mentally challenged. She doesn't teach in a school anymore though. When she did teach special ed in school, she volunteered at a place where they help students who are challenged write essays for school or for applications for college or even helped out with the applications for a job if they needed one. She ended up moving there full time to work.

It is basically an essay writing service that they give to those who need some extra help completing their assignments. It is a great place for those students to go and they give them an extra boost to help with their future.

A lot of them are on the right track already, but they need that extra boost when it comes to a custom essay for an application or even a custom research paper for a project.

Sarah said that most of the students that come in are there for help finding a job or applying to schools. So when they come in they find out about the person and then they look for what they like to do and what they are good at and then they help them with finding local job openings or if the student has already come in with a job application they take it from there.

They help them not only fill out the applications, but they teach them to be able to do it in the future. They also help them with resumes and knowing what kind of power words work the best to describe them and their past experiences. Sarah was also telling us one day that a lot of the special education students that come through have had schooling and are right where they should be education wise, but they haven't really been given chances that other students who aren't in those special education classes have been given.

When you are in ‘regular' classes you are expected to go on to college and you are given those tips on resumes and applications and essay writing and so on and the special education classes focus more on day to day activities and basic fundamentals and life skills. She said that now they are trying to focus more on giving them every opportunity possible and teaching them to mold their future how they want it to be.