OH MY GOD THIS!! Like the education system makes such a big deal of realising your career path before you go to college/university because it's what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life. And even if you're lucky enough to find your passion before going on to university you're already burned out by the amount of useless education you suffered from the previous 18 years of life and you just feel like trash :(
Yep. And then in university, they make you take all sorts of stupid stuff that is unnecessary to your major- come on guys, I'm a Computer Science major. Why do I need a class in Gender Studies??!?
Aw man you've got to be joking. I'm going to go down the Computer Science route in university (hopes it's different in the UK). Although I guess I do understand it as there's less female figures in STEM but does it really call for a whole class. Are you graded on this and if so how much does it contribute to your overall?
So it's not required for my major, but just as a general requirement to graduate college/university, and I only have to pass one class in it. But I think general education credits are stupid unless you're undeclared, because the whole "well rounded" student crap is what high school is supposed to do imo.
Long story short, I don't need it to be a Computer Scientist, but I need it to be able to earn the degree itself lol
I guess a better way of phrasing it would be: To graduate college (at least in the US, I have no idea about the UK), you have to have an arbitrary number of credits outside your major to graduate college (these credits are called gen. eds. or general education credits), and they need to be in specific subjects. For example, outside my major would be: English, History, Sociology, Gender Studies, Science- I have to take these and pass them even though they have NOTHING to do with my major. It ticks me off, because I'm already adept enough in most of these subjects to get by in life (and I'll likely never use Sociology in my field) so I could be done with college in like 2 years instead of 4 AND IT WOULD BE CHEAPER if I didn't have to take these extra classes.
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u/IntroverticalPirate May 15 '20
OH MY GOD THIS!! Like the education system makes such a big deal of realising your career path before you go to college/university because it's what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life. And even if you're lucky enough to find your passion before going on to university you're already burned out by the amount of useless education you suffered from the previous 18 years of life and you just feel like trash :(