As a foreigner who, after 10 years here, still is unable to comprehend the fetish obsession with CAO points, this article by @tanyasweeney feels absolutely relatable.
University study is about learning what you are interested in, it's not about careers.https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/getting-teenagers-to-apply-for-a-career-degree-is-a-complete-nonsense-1.4346668 …
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Replying to @ChronHib @tanyasweeney
I think part of it is related to the idea that getting a degree in a non-STEM field won't allow you to get a job in anything, and because university is very costly there is an idea that it needs to pay off in something, i.e. a career.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @tanyasweeney
Yes, I understand that. I would just hope that more people saw it as their duty to point out what utter

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Replying to @ChronHib @tanyasweeney
Absolutely. I always got very sad about my friends being forced into a degree they hated.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @tanyasweeney
The bigger underlying problem is the conviction in certain circles that STEM = good, non-STEM = bad. As a Central European, all academic subjects are science for me, and they are all equally good, if you are good in your own particular science.
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Replying to @ChronHib @tanyasweeney
This is definitely a perspective that I find odd and very different. My German supervisor approaches history like science, and he's the first person I met who does. But all subjects are as rigorous as the other, in my opinion, so why not?
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I think also the idea is that STEM = objectivity while non-STEM = subjectivity. That what historians and literary scholars and so on do is all interpretive and feeling/opinion based makes it not a science.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @tanyasweeney
Don't even get me started on that. Scratch the surface a bit, and you'll see how subjectivity pervades STEM as well. We are at least aware that subjectivity comes into play.
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Absolutely. It's incredibly frustrating.
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