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I can't agree more, I've studied IT engineering, but spending countless hours on fundamental sciences while at the same time knowing that it will have little to
by neverminder 13y ago
I can't agree more, I've studied IT engineering, but spending countless hours on fundamental sciences while at the same time knowing that it will have little to no benefit to my actual profession was too big of a torture to endure.
- eru 13y agoIf done right, fundamental sciences make for great learning.
- neverminder 13y agoDidn't do that for me on any level whatsoever. I think the biggest miss of academia is inability to catch student's interest. When I started doing actual practical work and see the fruits of my labor - that's when my interest morphed into a feedback loop - that was never ever the case in the university.
- claudius 13y agoIt is not the job of a university to motivate its students, they are supposed and assumed to be grown-ups who can motivate themselves to learn things they want to learn.
- eru 13y agoThat'd be a destructive attitude for universities to take.
- eru 13y agoI guess you got unlucky with your studies and your professors. Glad to hear, that you learned to like learning.
- icelancer 13y agoI do agree with this. While in charge of hiring for a data science team, I found that candidates with degrees in hard sciences were more often than not better candidates than the ones with CS backgrounds. Fundamental understanding of mathematics and true problem solving skills go a long way in data science (and computer science of course), and these seem to be tenets of good graduates of Physics programs especially.