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Much of the time, "to get your degree" is the best answer you can hope for. I suspect the schools use general education requirements to push low-cost classes. Y
by burfog 10y ago
Much of the time, "to get your degree" is the best answer you can hope for. I suspect the schools use general education requirements to push low-cost classes. You just have to put up with it.
Heck, I've been doing hard-core OS/embedded/real-time/driver/assembly stuff for almost two decades and I still haven't even found a use for: calculus (3 classes), physics (2 classes), statistics, databases (2 classes), theory of computation, or GUI development. If I can't find a use for those, what chance is there that I'll ever use the "history of western music" and similar? No boss will ever seriously ask for Marxist criticism.
I have my degree though. That is reason enough.
- allendoerfer 10y ago> If I can't find a use for those, what chance is there that I'll ever use the "history of western music" and similar? No boss will ever seriously ask for Marxist criticism. Not to sound overly humanist here, but considering who the US just elected president, I think there should be more not less classes like that. Or at least more people taking them. I see education not only as a way to maximize returns for the individual, but also as a drivers license for society.
- repple 10y agoBut maybe answers do exist! I'm using the word 'student' loosely here. While a college student is one example, there are plenty of other people who study outside of school or would study something if they knew why.