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Universities should be more than toll gates

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140 points wdib | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 07:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.272s | source
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Peritract ◴[21 Sep 25 13:08 UTC] No.45322388[source]▶
> Absolute joy turned into anger, and anger into resentment, as I wondered how different my life might have been if I’d been taught subjects I actually cared about by professors who cared too. Then I caught myself, realizing I was being melodramatic about a decade-old grievance.

This is incredibly self-indulgent. You were given opportunities you refused to engage with and are now continuing that pattern by blaming everyone else for your failures.

University has no value beyond credentialism only if you don't put any in.

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1. dgfitz ◴[21 Sep 25 13:53 UTC] No.45322762[source]▶
> University has no value beyond credentialism

Could have stopped there.

Nothing, absolutely nothing I learned at university was because of the university. What I did learn was that the whole thing was a crock of shit when I had to buy the same book 3 times for calc 1/2/3 because each semester the author, who also taught the class and used the same book for all 3 topics, put out a new version with different problem sets each semester. Gulick or gulic was her name. Her husband also taught there. I think they were in cahoots.

I guess I did learn something: it was a crock of shit.