• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Doing dual studies (a few months of uni, a few months working, getting paid ~1k€/month every month), and asked my colleagues about certain topics on the first day of work.

    “Do we need activity/class charts? Boolean algebra?”

    They laughed their asses off, and it felt so good to finally have the definitive confirmation to what I preached my mates all along: 90% of what we learn is useless bullshit.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOP
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      20 hours ago

      Without fail, the worst reporters and editors we had at my college paper were studying journalism. I never took a course and rose to managing editor while also being the media-law specialist because I actually listened to the publisher.

      Academia should teach you how to think. It doesn’t so much teach skills above community college.