And I would not have necessarily called all of them slackers, maybe a few, but some are doing quite well now, even though they took a few "THEORY" classes for easy credit.
But nice try.....
The people I "knew of" in college, I would not have been able to provide their motivations for taking classes. You have to be a bit closer to them to know why they are taking something. I could guess at their motivation, which is what I suspect you have done.
Anyway, you missed a great learning opportunity in an area where you thought nothing useful was to be gained. Music theory is a fascinating topic, having knowledge of why Mozart chose to voice a section of a sonata as he did is very enlightening. Seeing the independent lines of a Bach fugue, and understanding how it got put together is just damn interesting, IMHO.
I was just teasing you about the whole slacker thing anyway, no harm intended. Your negative comments about the study of music theory earned you that teasing.