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   Tony Toon (deepthaw@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 04:37:34 JST Tony Toon

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   • halva(0)

   @halva @thomasfuchs I actually found classes I “didn’t need” to be really good at opening my eyes to stuff I’d have never otherwise found interesting but I also deeply sympathize. You’re there to learn CS and may not have the luxury or time to poke around in other things like I did.

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     halva(0) (halva@wetdry.world)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 04:37:35 JST halva(0)

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @deepthaw @thomasfuchs i can't speak for the us, but as a student in russia i do this too, a lot

     but frankly it's less because i don't have enough materials (i don't need to buy my textbooks and whatnot), but because i can't force myself to spend mental energy on things ill ultimately never even need

     eg i don't understand why i was forced to attend "Engineering standards and drawing" or why im attending "The linguistics of business language" as a computer science major xd

     so it's more of a tool to get around local academic nonsense and spend more energy on the parts that matter than to save money or straight up cheat