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College / University: Experiences, Regrets Crash Override 2019/04/01 (Mon) 03:30:30 No.2617

It's been nearly a year since I've graduated university, and I feel like I didn't really get much out of it educationally. There were a few classes which I enjoyed … But at least in my major (CS), some of the information from the important courses I had to take have mostly been forgotten by now – primarily in discrete math, and OS. I'm kicking myself in head over this as I have gained a renewed interest in those subjects but catching up from almost a beginner's level is frustrating. I wish I had put more into my studies. Granted some of the influencing factors were poor teaching and a meh CS program, but that's not a good-enough excuse. Luckily I was able to get a job in the industry (and I consider myself alright at my job) but I feel like an impostor.

What was your higher-education experience like, Alice?

Nezumih-tan 2019/04/01 (Mon) 07:37:45 No.2618

I have close to no education and work as an Freelance IT consultant, honestly annon if you can do the job i dont see the problem just keep your mind in the game and expand your knowledge.

Unknown 2019/04/01 (Mon) 19:01:01 No.2619

I'm currently near the end of my 2nd year at university, studying computer science.

I overall like university, living in my dorm because I'm not that isolated and so on. The only thing I find annyoing is that to do all my classes every semester I don't have time to venture deeper into thinks I like or to do some programming on the side, neither do I have much time to read.
I've came to the conclusion that I will take one or two semester longer, take less classes per semester and thus have free time to read (which I think is quite important to get an education beyond the classroom) and to do fun tech stuff I like (currently I'm learning Haskell.)

Cheshire Cat 2019/04/01 (Mon) 20:39:41 No.2620

Undergraduate was mostly boring and mostly a waste of money because vocational school I attended had essentially the same content.

Graduate is better.

Lain Iwakura 2019/04/02 (Tue) 15:28:31 No.2626

Almost done with my first year of college, and I gotta say, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I majoring in Comp Info Systems with a focus in Cybersecurity, but all of my major classes have been hit-or-miss so far. The professor I've had for two-out-of-three of these classes spends more time telling personal stories than he does teaching the content of the class, and only ever gives multiple choice quizzes and finals.
My college is located in the center of an old factory town, so there's nothing to do outside of campus. This means I spend most of my time in my dorm doing stuff on my PC, which I think has been off-putting to my roommate who spends most of his time doing stuff with friends.

Gaff 2019/04/02 (Tue) 15:59:22 No.2627

This time its gonna be different. This time i will never fall behind. This time i will succeed on the first exam. /s

Yasuo Iwakura 2019/04/03 (Wed) 16:41:51 No.2636

I have the same feel, Op, but its kinda worse for me.
Imagine living in a really fucked up country for education, and only one university in the whole country is on the list of best universities in the world.
And imagine that you study in a university so fucked up and so small that you could learn everything that's taught in 6 months, and the degree worth almost nothing, even in my country.
Imagine that, only for not being completely retarded you can be the best of your class.
I only wanted to graduate to have a degree and try to get out of this soykafhole, but i think the time i spent there only hold me back.

Unknown 2019/04/03 (Wed) 17:55:39 No.2637

>>2636

Oh gosh. What country is this?

Lain Iwakura 2019/04/04 (Thu) 06:40:51 No.2641

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I think I did well enough. One thing I regret is that every semester there were classes where I only aimed to "survive" and not to actually learn it, mainly because of the load from other classes. Mathematics was a pain for me also, I still have no idea how to study proof heavy subjects like discrete maths. But overall I learned a lot both in classes and in my free time during uni.

It was certainly a lot better than at work. I don't feel like I am learning that much these days, or certainly not that kind of high level knowledge. It's like trivia compared to what we studied in university. After work I can barely keep my eyes open and feel too tired to concentrate so I've been struggling to study on my own in my free time. I miss being a student.

Cheshire Cat 2019/04/04 (Thu) 07:42:21 No.2642

>>2637
Brazil, also, when i said only one university is on the list, i meant top 100.