Doing dual studies (a few months of uni, a few months working, getting paid ~1k€/month every month), and asked my colleagues about certain topics on the first day of work.
“Do we need activity/class charts? Boolean algebra?”
They laughed their asses off, and it felt so good to finally have the definitive confirmation to what I preached my mates all along: 90% of what we learn is useless bullshit.
Without fail, the worst reporters and editors we had at my college paper were studying journalism. I never took a course and rose to managing editor while also being the media-law specialist because I actually listened to the publisher.
Academia should teach you how to think. It doesn’t so much teach skills above community college.
It means it took a lot of time and money to gain vast sums of knowledge, but has no useful ways to apply it.
Doing dual studies (a few months of uni, a few months working, getting paid ~1k€/month every month), and asked my colleagues about certain topics on the first day of work.
“Do we need activity/class charts? Boolean algebra?”
They laughed their asses off, and it felt so good to finally have the definitive confirmation to what I preached my mates all along: 90% of what we learn is useless bullshit.
Without fail, the worst reporters and editors we had at my college paper were studying journalism. I never took a course and rose to managing editor while also being the media-law specialist because I actually listened to the publisher.
Academia should teach you how to think. It doesn’t so much teach skills above community college.