Does uni, and final years of institutional education, get any better? I'm going into my 3rd year at uni for CS (Yea yea, I know, just shit post your "meme career" and get it over with) and I feel like I'm going nowhere in life. I going to start doing internships in the following summer but idk what to feel.
Also, does anyone else feel that this "rounded student" meme is complete bullshit? I have to take class I could give 2 shits about, but am required because reasons
The rounded student meme made sense in its time. Universities weren't utter shit. They didn't want maximum autists coming from their schools with zero knowledge of culture, history, literature, etc and just being math robots. They wanted a degree to indicate that beyond your major, you also had some understanding of the world at large and some context for your place in it.
Also the Internet didn't exist. So if you didn't force that knowledge on people, they could end up tremendously ignorant about those things in a way that is almost impossible now because knowledge of everything is just available to you.
Rounded student meme still makes some sense to me - it's important to be forced to at least dabble in some other things. Vital information can be found on wiki but for ex. I had to take econ, and now I have a somewhat decent basis of econ knowledge and an econ textbook around for reference as well,
>wah, why do schools require me to learn, wah
>I just want the degree item so I can trigger the employability flag
What do your unis require you to do to be "well rounded"? Things like liberal arts subjects? I would really hate that, if I wanted to learn about a subject I'd read about it or take it as an elective can't imagine being forced into unrelated subjects.
t.turbo autist who would willingly waste money on how to sculpt little pots or learn about "the finer things" in old ass movies rather than focusing on your desired career or working to pay off debts/ build up a financial cushion
Welcome to america
Supposedly it's to help us "get a better understanding of the world" but I just feel like it's an excuse for shit career people to feel like they've got purpose
imagine calling someone a turbo autist while simultaneously dismissing art in its entirety and promoting STEM shit
I'm dismissing art, I'm saying why do I have to take art if I don't give a fuck about it. I'd rather save the money and actually do the things I care about
I think that there exists generally worthwhile GEs available for each requirement that you have (90% of them will be worthless garbage)
But you really have to be careful about which GE you pick. Never pick one just because you think it would be easy. Firstly, you (or your friend you heard that bullshit from) might be wrong. Secondly, you might end up really hating it.
Yes I am projecting.