Math Ph.D. Continually turning down offers to do Linux system administurbation. Prefer programming.
Poll: What is your level of education?
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#62One degree in making stuff and one degree in making stuff up.
Funny, my degrees can be described the same way. BS in CS and MFA in Creative Writing.
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#63I've got 3/4ths of a film degree and 3/5ths of a biology degree. Where's the option for that?
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#65Dropped out of high school after four years. Plan on dropping out of college in probably four years too.
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#66I’m currently studying CS. Initially, I thought I wouldn’t be able to intellectually grasp it, but it turned out I could make it through it with a lot of effort (and Wolfram Alpha, Kahn Academy, Wikipedia …). I don’t think I’ll be capable of doing actual computer science research, but I could imagine working as a programmer one day. It’s really enjoyable filling in all these "conceptual holes" that remained after years of informal education as a teenager. Maybe I haven’t got deep enough into programming before college to develop that feeling of university being a waste of time that some seem to share in these comments.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not the job of university professors to motivate/entertain you; being motivated to learn is the students’ job and every minute the professor spends entertaining disinterested students is a waste of time for those who actually want to learn things.
Did you read my comment? My problem wasn't that I asked for entertainment. I asked for education, which I didn't get. I was very motivated when I got into the university. I was hoping we'd learn compilers, functional programming, low-level stuff, I was eager to learn everything. What I got was professors who didn't care about their subjects and last time did their actual programming twenty years ago. We did have one…
>I was very motivated when I got into the university. I was hoping we'd learn compilers, functional programming, low-level stuff, I was eager to learn everything. (..) but we didn't get to start actual programming until maybe third year (..) Most students didn't care either because they were there “to get the diploma”.
Are you living in Romania, by chance? Because the situation looks EXACTLY the same here.
I got into college hoping I would get some guidance learning something I find very interesting, but instead I get a big fucking joke.
Of course I tried to learn by self-teaching, but it was hard and I didn't even cover what a decent university would cover. And, like you said, the rest of the people are there just to get the diploma.
When I talked with a friend in Austria about how things are done here, he was shocked. You can't even call it an education. More like a big waste of time.
Right now I'm stuck in third and last year, with a dozen failed exams on subjects that god knows who placed them in the curriculum. I wanted to drop out in the first year, after seeing the horrors for myself, but there was nothing I could do about it.
Sucks so hard seeing all those years passing by and barely even learning anything from what I was eager to learn.