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It's a very superficial take of what a university course gives to you; sure, it doesn't give immediate work skill, but the shared "vocabulary" of theorems, form
by avereveard 5y ago
It's a very superficial take of what a university course gives to you; sure, it doesn't give immediate work skill, but the shared "vocabulary" of theorems, formulas, notations and conventions you build if your curricula matches your job goals and your team formation gives you tremendous synergy both in learning on the job and in functioning as a team; the understanding of principles behind the workings enables you to learn faster, to more aptly move your knowledge into similar area interdisciplinarily, and to be more flexible in modifying existing solution to novel issues within your field.
- lordnacho 5y agoBut you'll end up getting a whole new vocabulary when you join a new industry. What you did at uni was practicing learning new vocabulary and models. I would say as far as something like math appears to be foundational, what it really makes you practice is precision thinking: this thing matters, this other thing doesn't. One thing that might convince you is that when you look at math the subject itself, how many people who were good at applied math like calculus and PDEs actually know anything about mathematical foundations like ZFC, Gödel, and that type of thing?
- avereveard 5y agono lol job providing theory learning are exceedingly scarce, at most you get some practical level stuff and off you go. all the learning you do on the side do help, but formal learning is a completely different thing than running two courses off udemy