College/uni is supposed to show what to learn on your own, rather than hold your hand all the way through. That is what’s absolutely missing from being mentioned in any of the programmes.
Yeah I only pay tens of thousands of dollars for an impersonal impossible being to grunt and mutter phrases from a time and place so utterly absent and uncaring of human understanding that I receive nothing of value from it.
Would you like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for being taught git?! Now that’s a waste of money.
You get exposed to concepts and you dig into them on your own. It’s not easy, but nothing valuable in life is. And there’s simply no time to spend on a fairly trivial thing such as git. Especially when you can slowly learn it on your own while working on assignments, homework, personal projects, writing a diary, etc.
I already know what I need to learn. You could figure that out with a web search. Just see which skills employers are asking for in job postings. Why would I go to college for that?
I guess it’s tough over there in US, but here in Europe it’s a bit easier financially.
I had the same mindset as you. My problem was that while I could learn all those things on my own, I never did. There’s something to be said about the power of having a schedule. Uni also helped me in ways I didn’t know I needed help with. It’s definitely worth a lot.
There must be some prodigy people who have the magical combo of focus and willpower, but the majority don’t. Higher ed helps tremendously with that.
Uni also gives you projects to work on where you can apply what you’ve learned within a specific context. I know if I just have a vague goal like “learn how git works”, and I read through a bunch of documentation, I will retain almost none of it.
College/uni is supposed to show what to learn on your own, rather than hold your hand all the way through. That is what’s absolutely missing from being mentioned in any of the programmes.
Yeah I only pay tens of thousands of dollars for an impersonal impossible being to grunt and mutter phrases from a time and place so utterly absent and uncaring of human understanding that I receive nothing of value from it.
Would you like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for being taught git?! Now that’s a waste of money.
You get exposed to concepts and you dig into them on your own. It’s not easy, but nothing valuable in life is. And there’s simply no time to spend on a fairly trivial thing such as git. Especially when you can slowly learn it on your own while working on assignments, homework, personal projects, writing a diary, etc.
Like the other commenters have said, I can be exposed to concepts anywhere.
I already know what I need to learn. You could figure that out with a web search. Just see which skills employers are asking for in job postings. Why would I go to college for that?
I guess it’s tough over there in US, but here in Europe it’s a bit easier financially.
I had the same mindset as you. My problem was that while I could learn all those things on my own, I never did. There’s something to be said about the power of having a schedule. Uni also helped me in ways I didn’t know I needed help with. It’s definitely worth a lot.
There must be some prodigy people who have the magical combo of focus and willpower, but the majority don’t. Higher ed helps tremendously with that.
Uni also gives you projects to work on where you can apply what you’ve learned within a specific context. I know if I just have a vague goal like “learn how git works”, and I read through a bunch of documentation, I will retain almost none of it.
Exactly!