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> It sucks, but there are people out there no smarter than you yet more powerful, and sometimes they impose a speed limit. College's point was never about lear
by ekianjo 4y ago
> It sucks, but there are people out there no smarter than you yet more powerful, and sometimes they impose a speed limit.
College's point was never about learning anything for a while now, it's a credentials machine and the machine only works in one way: the one that extracts the most value out of students, the longest.
- taneq 4y agoCollege’s point is to prove that you can learn a couple of dozen knowledge sets in six months each, to a testably adequate level, and also stick with something for three years (a reasonable guess at how long a technical employee takes to pay off the investment of hiring them.)
- ekianjo 4y ago> you can learn a couple of dozen knowledge sets in six months each You mean shallowly enough just to pass a few tests that can be easily hacked by accessing the previous year's? You can definitely fake it until you get the paper, I've seen that so many times.
- taneq 4y agoThat's not hacking or faking it, any more than shipping a couple of products using the some pointers from stackoverflow. If you show you're actually able to stick with a thing and finish it to a sufficient level of quality, that's kind of the point. Developing a deep understanding of esoteric topics can be fun and intellectually satisfying but is usually a tiny part of most careers, even the fun and satisfying ones.