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I valued my degree's paper more than the content. The content was largely bullshit. Who needs to learn astronomy for a business degree? Employers don't give a s
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
I valued my degree's paper more than the content. The content was largely bullshit. Who needs to learn astronomy for a business degree? Employers don't give a shit if I know about astronomy, why should I care? It's required, however, so I took it. I did the minimum to get a 4.0 and nothing more. I think space is interesting and I read about it in my free time, but memorizing facts and figures about random things isn't really interesting.
Even the relevant classes are largely bullshit. I took a marketing class where the textbook was seemingly written by a group of people who sit in a room all day making up labels for common sense concepts. As a student, I have to memorize those labels. I have to memorize the meaningless systems and charts and diagrams those people came up with. I have to memorize the names of people who did things in the field of marketing.
You get my point. It was a waste of time. There was definitely useful stuff in my degree, stuff that was helpful in my actual jobs, but it was maybe 1-2% of my total undergraduate career, and I could have learned that information on my own with a few books and about a month of studying.
- IkmoIkmo 10y agoWait what, you had to take astronomy in uni to get a business degree? Could you elaborate, maybe point me to the program? I've never heard of anything like this. (although I do know other ridiculous examples, don't laugh but I know people who had PE in a uni business degree. team building competencies and all that crap haha)
- Tyr42 10y agoThere is a requirement of 10 non-math faculty classes (out of 40 classes) to get a degree in Math here. It's not that uncommon I think.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoI had to take 8 hours (two classes) of a science class with a lab. I could have done physics, biology, chemistry, etc. Astronomy was the easiest option so it's what I chose. I think most, or at least many, business schools have a requirement for this in the US.