What's one thing your learned at college/university that blew your mind?
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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.
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That the diesel engine wasn’t originally ran on diesel fuel. (In college I was led to believe that it was hemp oil). It was actually peanut oil and later they tried hemp oil.
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You can calculate how long a pencil can stand on its tip before falling using quantum physics.
Basically a version of this was on our freshman accelerated physics final, and no one got it right so our professor happily explained it to us the next day.
It was pretty much the same as is described here.
https://thephysicsvirtuosi.com/posts/old/how-long-can-you-balance-a-quantum-pencil/
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Nothing mind blowing? Only mind blowing course was Sociology. My professor worshipped Bernie Sanders and I appreciated him engaging his students to do better.
But also,
That succeeding in college/university just shows that someone can learn, follow instructions, work in a group, etc. It really is to prepare someone to show up and do the work. I mean everyone is different and there's just more likelihood of someone being a better person to work with than someone who doesn't have that structure or ability to absorb info and think.I don't think necessarily that people need higher education but it helps. I tell people I think careerwise it helps to have at least two of the three:
- skills
- networking/network
- higher education
Know college isn't for some people and the people I know that are successful are often very skilled or/and have connections, can make connections to get employed where they are.
Oh and STEM though, I think people 100% need college/university for more specialized fields and STEM like medical professionals, physicists, etc.
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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.
For real? A lot of high school subjects were pre requisites for enrolling in my degree here and it'd be quite tough to get through the degree without the foundation laid in those subjects. At the very least they'd have to extend the university course by probably a year or so.
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Making a counter which scoud count up to 10 and loop back just with soma cables and electricity.
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Nothing mind blowing? Only mind blowing course was Sociology. My professor worshipped Bernie Sanders and I appreciated him engaging his students to do better.
But also,
That succeeding in college/university just shows that someone can learn, follow instructions, work in a group, etc. It really is to prepare someone to show up and do the work. I mean everyone is different and there's just more likelihood of someone being a better person to work with than someone who doesn't have that structure or ability to absorb info and think.I don't think necessarily that people need higher education but it helps. I tell people I think careerwise it helps to have at least two of the three:
- skills
- networking/network
- higher education
Know college isn't for some people and the people I know that are successful are often very skilled or/and have connections, can make connections to get employed where they are.
Oh and STEM though, I think people 100% need college/university for more specialized fields and STEM like medical professionals, physicists, etc.
It really depends on the line of work if you need higher education or not.
In my work, where we create software in the automobile industry, Only 1% or so don't have higher education, and even if they can work around it, it shows pretty fast once you look at how they organize their work, code, documentation, etc.
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Making a counter which scoud count up to 10 and loop back just with soma cables and electricity.
Ah you mentioned STEM now I see it ^^
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One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn't mathematically rigorous at all.
Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: "oops divided by zero guess I'll cancel it out by multiplying by zero" and it works.
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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.
Unfortunately, that’s becoming more and more true, and the quality of college classes has to adapt to a student population that is more and more divided depending on the quality of their high schools.
Students coming from good high schools have already internalized effective studying mechanisms, and often the basics of many topics in the first years of college, while others coming from worst high schools have no clue how to organize themselves to be successful. Often, they lock themselves up and spend unreasonable amount of time trying to make sense of things they don’t have the perquisite for. A good read in this direction is Whistling Vivaldi. Obviously, high school quality is very connected with the whiteness and affluence of their location, putting poorer and minority students at a disadvantage even before the starting block.
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Nothing mind blowing? Only mind blowing course was Sociology. My professor worshipped Bernie Sanders and I appreciated him engaging his students to do better.
But also,
That succeeding in college/university just shows that someone can learn, follow instructions, work in a group, etc. It really is to prepare someone to show up and do the work. I mean everyone is different and there's just more likelihood of someone being a better person to work with than someone who doesn't have that structure or ability to absorb info and think.I don't think necessarily that people need higher education but it helps. I tell people I think careerwise it helps to have at least two of the three:
- skills
- networking/network
- higher education
Know college isn't for some people and the people I know that are successful are often very skilled or/and have connections, can make connections to get employed where they are.
Oh and STEM though, I think people 100% need college/university for more specialized fields and STEM like medical professionals, physicists, etc.
My polisci teacher day 1 really hammered in that literally everything is political, that it is unavoidable, and all you do by avoiding politics is giving up your own agency when it comes to the things that you care about. It was 2017, so a lot of political apathy at the time, idk it reallly made it click that every single thing is poltical, based on it or decided by it.
Like not caring about politics is just not caring about how you live your life and giving up any control you have to others. People only realize when they lose something they care about like porn games lol
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If you were to put a big fan on a sailboat and point it at the sail, it would move the sailboat in a similar way as if the wind was pushing the sail.
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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.
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One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn't mathematically rigorous at all.
Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: "oops divided by zero guess I'll cancel it out by multiplying by zero" and it works.
Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn't a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22... And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can't.
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That the diesel engine wasn’t originally ran on diesel fuel. (In college I was led to believe that it was hemp oil). It was actually peanut oil and later they tried hemp oil.
I'm not trying to be a smartass, but wouldn't the name "diesel fuel" be assigned after a certain substance was found to be the optimal fuel for a diesel engine?
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For real? A lot of high school subjects were pre requisites for enrolling in my degree here and it'd be quite tough to get through the degree without the foundation laid in those subjects. At the very least they'd have to extend the university course by probably a year or so.
Yeah not seeing how you could go into any form of STEM and lesson 1 is matrix math, but you flunked math 300 and don't know what a quadratic equation is.
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Bit too busy with the ole undiagnosed adhd and a hankering for world of Warcraft
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I'm not trying to be a smartass, but wouldn't the name "diesel fuel" be assigned after a certain substance was found to be the optimal fuel for a diesel engine?
Honestly, good question and I actually don’t know
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Whether or not an irregular verb retains its irregularity depends largely on how much it is used in everyday life. If it's a common word, it's more likely to stay irregular, because we're frequently reminded of the "correct" form. If it's a rare word, the irregularity tends to disappear over time because we simply forget. That's why "to be" couldn't be more irregular (it's used enough to retain its forms) and the past participle of "to prove" is slowly becoming regular "proved" (it's rare enough to be forgotten).
yes i like language very much
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