I was born at an early age

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  • I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.

    I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.

    It’s like yeah that’s a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don’t make the grade we don’t finish and have a mountain of debt.

    On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how “it’s a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back.”

    There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.

    These people have brains the size of planets but couldn’t comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.



  • Yeah that’s definitely the good ending. My school did so poorly they changed the grading curriculum to be 50% homework based so I was cooked on that.

    I did well on the tests but they made tests 15% and quizzes 12%. I don’t remember the rest of the breakdown but it was absolute bullshit.

    They did it because the year above me had a 50% non graduation rate and my year had a 53% non grad rate.

    The only reason the school didn’t get shut down is because it managed 47% the year after me and apparently the deal was 3 consecutive years of over 50% failure = shutdown.






  • I agree 100%

    I absolutely hated school until I got to college and took a C++ class. Suddenly I was having a blast because I could see purpose in what I was doing.

    The reality of it is some people are good little drones who can work on pointless tasks because they were told to and people who aren’t and need to see why they’re doing what they’re doing.

    Imo the gifted programs didn’t reward people because they were smart but because they were obedient.







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    “Dude, the difference is the scale… back then they could hint at it, if they overdid it, that was a career ending mistake”

    That’s really more like a 15 year window because I remember the 90’s and early 00’s and by today’s standards, people were racist as shit and it was considered acceptable.

    Literally watch any comedy from that time and you’ll quickly learn how different the discourse was.

    In the past 5 or so years it’s swung back super hard, I’ll give you that, but PC culture as you’re describing it had barely started in the 90’s and really only got off the ground in a way you would recognize in the mid-late 00’s.