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It's hilarious to explain you can't be assed to read a novel for a class that is about literary analysis and then also say It scares me as well how little inter
by maxerickson 2y ago
It's hilarious to explain you can't be assed to read a novel for a class that is about literary analysis and then also say It scares me as well how little interest my peers have in actually learning.
Part of the idea of courses that aren't direct job skills is that you will have done it and learned from it.
- _lvbh 2y agoOh we don't get novels to read for class in university. Any reading would be voluntary
- sarchertech 2y agoThe article you are responding to was about a professor who is assigning his students to read Dostoevsky.
- suddenlybananas 2y agoWell, you can't expect him to have read it!
- nicbou 2y agoThis is nice when you have the time to sit down and enjoy literature at a leasurly pace. It's not nice when it's one of many obligations that comes with its own deadlines and tests.
- raydev 2y agoIn fairness, this is the standard university experience and has been for many decades. You either figure out how to balance your time and make the grades or you don’t.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoMaking the grade often has nothing to do with actually doing the reading. Why there are cram courses and distilled notes that students sell.
- kmoser 2y agoSure, and making the grade often has nothing to do with getting the job (e.g. just because you have a CS degree doesn't mean you're a shoe-in for that dev job you applied to). But since tests and degrees are simply indicators, not absolute proof, that you're qualified, people fudge tend to things every step of the way; it's turtles all the way down.