What's one thing your learned at college/university that blew your mind?
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That although there are many wonderful professors, the average professor does not know their ass from a hole in the ground.
But almost all professors know an incredible amount about some ass and/or some hole, just not the specific ass and hole that it would be practical to know about.
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High School is just busy work to keep you off the streets until you're ready for a job or college.
Honestly a lot of work is just busy work to keep people off the streets.
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How low the expectations are for a putatively “adult” level of education
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That I spent years developing proficiency in my language and expanding my vocabulary to get accepted, only to be told to write simplified English in journalism school. Then they doubled down in my business classes to write for a 6th grade education and those who don't speak natively.
Ya I was surprised that that became the style they liked in my university history classes. None of that rhetoric bullshit.
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You can tell from my transcript the exact week Elder Scrolls Oblivion came out.
For me it was might and magic III, yes I'm very old...
My roommate, RA for the dorm, and I played for 3 months straight on my computer. It was never turned off 24/7 ....
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Even if you are sailing directly downwind, it works. That was actually the professor's demonstration. He said that at the time it was accepted as a physical phenomenon, there were many physicists who said it wasn't possible, but it was being actively used by some engineers to make jets go in reverse.
Cool stuff!
(I am not in aerospace or sailing, so I was guesstimating)
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Higher education is a waste of money for the vast majority of degrees, even STEM ones.
Let me guess, you went to uni in the U.S.A.?
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Just how greedy some professors can be.
Like the one that had a publishing deal with Pearson. He wrote his own textbook, charged $700 for it, then made you remove parts from the book so it made used copies of the book worthless.
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Just how greedy some professors can be.
Like the one that had a publishing deal with Pearson. He wrote his own textbook, charged $700 for it, then made you remove parts from the book so it made used copies of the book worthless.
That sounds like something news worthy with name and everything
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Granted, linux is probably much more user friendly now. Although I still see mysterious errors on boot and cannot boot into newer kernel versions. How peculiar.
I've used a Linux desktop for 25 years now
Yeah, it's gotten a bit easier, just like Windows and Mac.
Not that much has changed, and frankly, most of basic Linux really isn't that hard, it's just getting people off the shitty windows concepts that is the hard part.
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Classmates of mine who moved to Linux in college, 20 years ago, all graduated at least a semester later than I did. To be fair, I got my pirated copy of everything from them.
What is this even trying to say?
When we had to team up for lab assignments I was working with a like-minded guy and we did everything Linux when the assignment didn't specifically specify that we had to use windows. The teacher was constantly updating the wording of his assignments and asked us to put a little bit of windows in there. We were way ahead of the rest of class and had plenty of time left to switch the windows parts in and out like nothing. That was 12 years ago.
If it was possible on Linux we used Linux, if not then we used windows. We used a very pragmatic approach, but favored Linux where possible.
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There is no god. No amount of looking for it would be enough. I was already doubtful beforehand. Having grown up conservatively, I kind of already knew it was all fake, but the deprogramming took a while.
I wasn't doubtful, unfortunately. I went in a true-believer, expecting to get a Religious-Studies degree. But I left early as an Atheist. I'm glad that I did, but fundamentally shifting my life like that really messed me up. Deprogramming myself was the hardest, but best decision that I ever made.
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Where can I learn more about this? Recommend any books or any techniques? I'd love to learn more about power structures, and people in power.
In workplaces, I've seen people put themselves into positions of power, get roles their not qualified for, and influence managers to dislike people. Office politics.
There are a lot of historical books on various topics; i feel like a good spot is to pick an era and dive in.
Also, everything is politics, especially office work. Part of the purpose of college wasn't just to get people to gain knowledge, but to work up Bloom's Taxonomy by applying knowledge learned and analyzing it. Reading books might get you knowledge and maybe comprehension, but the value is in those higher levels.
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I've always said in 99% sure there is no God. Or if there is he doesn't care about us.
However I'm 100% sure that every religion is full of shit and made up.
I call myself agnostic atheist but it's really gnostic when it's anything theistic humanity has come up with thus far. I say this so when I'm talking to a Christian I can make it clear I have no doubts at all when it comes to anything Abrahamic being obviously bullshit.
Deist idk. The universe is pretty fucking weird.
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That all the shit I was told about making 60k out of college and doubling it in 4 years, how I would need college to get a cushy desk job, how without college I would never afford a house or a car, that my loans would be paid off in 10 years or forgiven in 20... All of that was a fucking lie.
Colleges will happily take 80 grand from teenagers and give them absolutely nothing for it.
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Just how greedy some professors can be.
Like the one that had a publishing deal with Pearson. He wrote his own textbook, charged $700 for it, then made you remove parts from the book so it made used copies of the book worthless.
I'm very grateful of having a publicly funded university. I pay around 70€ a year for the student union and another around 70€ for student health care. That's all I pay, includes the school, materials, and free healthcare.
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Just how greedy some professors can be.
Like the one that had a publishing deal with Pearson. He wrote his own textbook, charged $700 for it, then made you remove parts from the book so it made used copies of the book worthless.
I'd be switching classes during drop/add if that happened.
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That when actually challenged I couldn't justify eating meat. It was just a part of a long conversation with another meat eating woman in completely unrelated majors.
Honestly that sort of thing is one of the most valuable parts of college imo. I was in a place dedicated to learning and thinking, surrounded by people also dedicated to it and it meant that I had a lot of deep intellectual conversations. Those years didn't just give me a career, they molded me into someone genuinely educated
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That when actually challenged I couldn't justify eating meat. It was just a part of a long conversation with another meat eating woman in completely unrelated majors.
Honestly that sort of thing is one of the most valuable parts of college imo. I was in a place dedicated to learning and thinking, surrounded by people also dedicated to it and it meant that I had a lot of deep intellectual conversations. Those years didn't just give me a career, they molded me into someone genuinely educated
How completely stupid a professor can be. My parting words to him were basically "You have no idea what you are talking about." And everyone in the room but the professor knew I was right.
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Honestly, good question and I actually don’t know
I know it's a week later but this has been weighing on my mind.
It has to be such right? I wouldn't develop Krudler Fuel, with the hopes that in a couple years I will have completed development on the new Krudler Engine.
That scenario would make no sense and illustrates that the naming of the fuel must have come later.
