Don't get me wrong, learning is important, but I don't have tons of fond memories of great learning opportunities in school.

  • theboy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I had my first year of Uni last year and I honestly did not learn anything the entire year and went into thousands of dollars of debt for literally no reason.

    Without the social aspect of school and its ability to create a practical learning environment its literally worthless.

    • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Get used to it. It does not get better.

      If you want to learn in Uni, stick to doing the bare minimum. Take the easiest classes possible. Then go to the library and find books for what you actually want to learn.

      The internet is also good. 50% of university learning is "Here's a project, now google everything you need to know so I don't have to give a lecture."

      • theboy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        eh im fine with that

        the inability to be social outside of zoom and discord is what really bummed me out. Spending a year without having any friends reminded me of some not so pleasant times in Middle School and I had to keep delving into Marxist theory about how we NEED to be social to be human to keep myself sane.

      • theboy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        In my last trimester I didn't even do that because i was so done with this fucking online learning shit :doomer:

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            talk about out of touch

            Well they remember a time were you worked for 4 weekends and were able to pay for your tuition. Also they were classist as fuck.

          • theboy [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yeah ironically getting a job was the best thing that happened to me last year and a customer who was high off heroin threatened to kill me if I didn't give him a discount one night lmao

          • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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            4 years ago

            I was in social work school until recently, and a friend of mine dropped out in part because that was the administration's response to her having financial issues (except they also recommended not even having part-time job).

            That's bad enough in any school, but social work school has traditionally, until recently, been arranged in such a way that you COULD hold a job, most students were expected to, and the workload was adjusted to account for it- guarantee it was that way when our administrators went through it. But tuition keeps going up, internship requirements go up (and they don't HAVE to be unpaid, but paid ones are extremely rare, as are ones that don't require you to have a car), academic workload keeps going up, and we're just expected to take out loans to cover our living expenses. And we're fucking social workers, it's not even like we're doctors who can expect to make pretty good money once they're done with school.

          • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            my psychology professor insists that we watch her 2 hour lectures where she dryly repeats everything in the textbook that would take like half an hour to read and take notes