Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry17
I spent ten years at university and I can say with certainty that at least 30% of first year students in 2000 would not have made it past Christmas had they been admitted in 1991. The only reason they were able to succeed was because standards were lower. I still hover around academia and it has actually gotten worse since 2000 to the point where I no longer consider someone who only has an undergrad degree as being educated.
I graduated from a state school in '05. I have a BS in finance. It is completely worthless. The classes were unbelievably easy and repetitive. Many classes were just copies of each other with a different course description and the same students that didn't understand basic concepts.
The vast majority of finance classes allowed you to bring a sheet of paper with notes for tests. People would write really small and cover both sides.
These people would the proceed to take the entire allotted time to take their tests to end up getting D's and C's at best. I would scribble down whatever formulas I needed to know before the class started, finish the test first and get an A. That's not right.
I got an A in a class were I didn't own the textbook. For many classes I just went to the midterms and final.
I get upset thinking about it because it was a waste of time. The classes could easily be passed with less than 10 hours of effort. Where is the challenge in that? What does that do to people's expectations about life? I take no pride in my degree.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry17
Being into something is irrelevant. After What The Bleep Do We Know was released plenty of people were into QM and string theory and it was horrible as they didn't have a clue what they were talking about.
That movie sucked. The people I watched it with liked it.
I tried to explain why is was a bunch of nonsense but that was worse than trying to explain poker to a random idiot. People love fancy bull****.