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   :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:00:02 JST :blobcatflower:
   it's impressive how universities put pressure on students, not so they may earn skills or knowledge, but simply to have a chunk of them predictably drop out early, and STILL a ton of people walk out of these places unable to work in their field. time, money and mental health wasted for what? so HR drones put you into entry level jobs were you start to actually gather the skills you need :meowUpsideDown:
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:00:01 JST lainy

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     @lucy i think it's nearly purely a signal, it's not about learning (plus some propaganda). i think caplan's "the case against education" is the best overview of the idea.
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     Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:04:22 JST Takom

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     @lucy I had to help a master's degree holder make a makefile two weeks ago.
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:17:05 JST snacks

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     @lucy probably learned more useful stuff during my apprenticeship than the 2 years at uni, and that left me unable to sleep, with hair falling out, gaining weight back like crazy and with my confidence in shambles
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:18:05 JST snacks

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     @lucy yet i won't be able to apply at a bunch of places or abroad purely because i don't have a bachelors
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     Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming (condret@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:18:25 JST Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming

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     @lucy yep, and it was this pressure that demotivated me from seriously approaching university. i went there to learn interesting things, and all i got was a shitton of maths and professors telling us that we don't need any of this and that their lectures only exist as a filter
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:19:56 JST snacks

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     @lucy @Takom had someone who just finished his bachelors in cs who couldn't write a linear search :DDD
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     :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:19:57 JST :blobcatflower:

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     @Takom jesus christ :lainstress:
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:24:00 JST snacks

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     @lucy ok, some of the stuff i learned at uni i still use today and no one teaches you anything abstract in an apprenticeship, anything useful i learned was out of my own initiative. Both suck balls in their own ways
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     EmoDagda (dagda@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 05:51:26 JST EmoDagda

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     @snacks @lucy current day university education is the biggest bureaucratic spook. Perhaps you dropping out was because you were genuinely interested in learning and access to jobs, not distinction and power over others.
     For the "human" beings that solely go through this to become part of the professional managerial class I do wish them an immensely painful fuck around and find out tho
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 06:36:02 JST snacks

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     @dagda @lucy nah, i dropped out because i stressed myself so hard over the math exams i got a fever and felt like i had a cold lmao