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Yeah earning that A in Sociology 101 really changed my life's trajectory.

onemoresoop 7y ago
If you earned that grade honestly a few ideas may stay with you for your entire life and that may change your life, even if imperceptibly. Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person.
- teppifk 7y ago
  > Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person. This is a pretty meaningless sentiment. There are plenty of things one can study that will lead to more ignorance and less well-roundedness. In the extreme, this is pretty much how cults can operate. I believe it also applies to a number of subjects in mainstream universities, but I am not going to hop into that fire pit.
  - onemoresoop 7y ago
    You already did. Why not choose the right university/curriculum that you're interested in? Or you have a problem with most of them?
    - teppifk 7y ago
      No I did not. It's a university.. there are a broad array of departments and courses, and I am saying that a handful of them at a multitude of universities have the potential to close minds and lead to more ignorance - this broad statement isn't too controversial - witnessed by the very vocal debate about it. I am not going to jump into the pit of the specifics of that debate though.
hombre_fatal 7y ago
Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It instead of giving into shortcut temptations probably did change your life trajectory over the years. Also, seems like a weird bar. I doubt any single class "changed your life trajectory." Why would it need to? I could say that about very few things in life. But I get it, liberal arts bad, STEM good.
- partialrecall 7y ago
  > Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It Have you considered the possibility that he's a highly motivated person who simply has a more creative "It" in mind?

If you earned that grade honestly a few ideas may stay with you for your entire life and that may change your life, even if imperceptibly. Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person.

teppifk 7y ago
> Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person. This is a pretty meaningless sentiment. There are plenty of things one can study that will lead to more ignorance and less well-roundedness. In the extreme, this is pretty much how cults can operate. I believe it also applies to a number of subjects in mainstream universities, but I am not going to hop into that fire pit.
- onemoresoop 7y ago
  You already did. Why not choose the right university/curriculum that you're interested in? Or you have a problem with most of them?
  - teppifk 7y ago
    No I did not. It's a university.. there are a broad array of departments and courses, and I am saying that a handful of them at a multitude of universities have the potential to close minds and lead to more ignorance - this broad statement isn't too controversial - witnessed by the very vocal debate about it. I am not going to jump into the pit of the specifics of that debate though.

hombre_fatal 7y ago

Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It instead of giving into shortcut temptations probably did change your life trajectory over the years. Also, seems like a weird bar. I doubt any single class "changed your life trajectory." Why would it need to? I could say that about very few things in life. But I get it, liberal arts bad, STEM good.

partialrecall 7y ago
> Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It Have you considered the possibility that he's a highly motivated person who simply has a more creative "It" in mind?