Fun Stuff > CHATTER

heeeey member me?

<< < (5/11) > >>

I is Grammar:
Welcome back!  It's good to hear from you again!

negative creep:
Yeah, welcome back! I hope quitting uni works out for you. For me it was the best thing I've ever done!

mooface:

--- Quote from: ForteBass on 01 Mar 2008, 10:45 ---Now I'm not saying I'm against higher education in and of itself. I'm against the idea that the degrees mean more than the actual knowledge.

--- End quote ---

i agree with you on this so hard.  the worst thing is that it's not only students who have this mentality, but it's ingrained within the institution itself.  at least at my university the administration and faculty seem to make it very clear that the important thing isn't that the students learn anything useful, but that they pass their classes.  it really makes me sick, and i feel like i am really wasting my time when i go to classes where my teachers don't even lecture and write 10 page papers on bullshit.  unfortunately i need and want my diploma because the field in which i want to work is really competitive.  i just wish i was actually learning something in the meantime.

tania:
what bums me out too is the mentality that people who go to university or pursue a post-secondary education are smarter than people who don't. it's just a very specific kind of work and a specific kind of mindset. i am pretty fucking stupid but have always somehow known how to get good grades in school, which is why i figure i might as well go for the degree. however, some of the smartest people i know just can't write papers or take exams because they find it horribly useless and impractical. that and anybody who thinks you won't find stupid people in university is deluding themselves.

judging from family experiences again, i find the people who are likely to pressure you to go to university or college and will deem you a failure if you don't are usually the same people who are those assholes that only want to talk about their jobs and make other people feel bad and nobody actually likes them that much and it's like, man why did i even invite you here you're sort of a dick.

E. Spaceman:
I really wanted to go to university and got accepted into them ivy leagues and mcgills and whatnot but then i didn't have enough money to go. For this reason it always infuriates me that some people go to uni just to pad out a resume or party or whatever.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page