1/ I agree with this diagram. I disagree with the conclusion: that it makes sense to spend a quarter of a million dollars and waste 4-5 years of one's life getting a college degree.https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1461776127349846018 …
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4/ This is not a recipe for a useful education; this is (a) a credentialling service for the striving-to-be-upper class, that has morphed into (b) a jobs program for professors teaching in areas no one cares about https://courses.cornell.edu/content.php?catoid=45&navoid=17977 …pic.twitter.com/WBbH72lOWw
5/ When someone walks into Home Depot and says "I'm installing a faucet, what do I need?" the salespeople do not sell him a car lift, a full set of mechanics tools, and a surveyor's transit "...because you might need 10% of it someday".https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1461778991581442062 …
6/ I went to a small (~ 80 kids/year) Catholic high school. It was ... fine.https://twitter.com/edwardcossette/status/1461779333924724737 …
7/ yeah, I guess, I kinda hated all of it there's a micro-subgenre in SF of "you die...and wake up in your 16 yo body back in 1983" (Replay by Grimwood, Rewrite by Benford) and when I ponder that scenario I always think "how can I get a job ASAP?"https://twitter.com/Isegoria/status/1461779583305461761 …
8/ I hate schooling so much because it has always interfered with my education
From the viewpoint of the job bar, both the orange and red in the bottom bar are "wasted," but that's the point of the diagram: few, if any, students ever know what part of the non-red is blue vs orange. Also, CS special case in eng. EE, MechEng, ChemEng need actual labs.
I'm doing a British degree where all the content is discrete math or compsci and it still feels like this
So it was worse than high school? (Or maybe you were home schooled so avoided that sham?)
So, college wasn’t much better than high school?
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