A feature story about the wisdom of taking harder courses in high school to be better prepared for college includes a reference to Christina Safar, a Wayne State student who just finished her freshman year in the WSU Honors program. She maintains that the tough courses she took in high school, such as calculus, physics and anatomy, were worth the pain and anxiety involved. She said the challenge level in her university courses was "really similar to what I'd taken in high school, so it helped me a lot." She is currently taking prerequisite courses to qualify for the pharmacy program and says she's had to "double-up on the sciences for a couple semesters."