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Wow, talk about missing the point. The point of university (or used to be before they turned into high priced vocational schools) is to teach you how to learn.
by yardie 17y ago
Wow, talk about missing the point. The point of university (or used to be before they turned into high priced vocational schools) is to teach you how to learn. If you didn't learn AI or computer music in school then what's stopping you from learning on your own. In fact, you could enroll at any university right now and take those electives as audits.
And the 14 credits you took to learn another language barely cover what is required to speak that language. So congratulations you have the same vocabulary as a 7 year old native speaker. The school did their part. They got you in the game. How you go about the rest is entirely up to you.
- sown 17y ago>Wow, talk about missing the point. No, I didn't. I understand the point of university is to learn. I did a lot of learning on my own. I get that. I'm not some idiot that you make me out to be. The point is that it took way too much time. The one thing I didn't have enough of and it impacted my future career. The reason I had to take 14 hours is because some decades ago, some inflexible bureaucrat decided that we need to "understand" each other and created this idiotic requirement. Now, in the 21st century, that ideal is becoming irrelevant and of course the language department won't let this change. This, as you can probably tell, has created a lot of resentment. Let me be clear: We had to take 14 hours because of departmental politics, not some hypocritical ideal about how the university is for learning. I can't take them at the university because I don't have time now that I'm working. Also, there are somethings that I just need guidance on. So maybe I am a moron. Whatever.