Is a University Degree a Waste of Money?

This is wrong, University is more pathetic than highschool.

At least high-school segregated the smart and dumb kids to academic / applied versions of all classes... in University they 'claim' to accept an 80+ academic average and require a portfolio... but they don't, they let anyone in to fill the bottom line.

Now all of your projects are group projects, so while in high-school maybe you had the be the 1 dumb kid carried in a project by 4 smart kids... now YOU ARE THE 1 smart kid carrying 4 dumbos, every single project.

In high school you generally cared about getting a good grade.

In University the only thing anyone cares about is just 'getting the grade', a low enough score to just pass.

None of the work you will do during 4 years will be anything you are proud of, in fact you will probably want to destroy your portfolio and do drugs.

I blame the University CEOs, DEANs, and program builders, for building programs with 'getting the grade' being a means to an end... instead of pushing and making feasible REAL WORLD PROJECTS...

I.e. you think you will get to do cool shit in University like build a robot AI... nope, you get graded on class attendance, how good your powerpoint is, and fuck your robot that is worth 5%, also your team was all idiots so a high-schooler could have made a better robot than you.

University NEEDs to be extremely harsh on selection... and deny almost everyone entry who doesn't have the skills necessary... and then make good use of the work-force they have on site and not waste 4 years of their lives.

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