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Warik said:
Doesn't the fact that this class is useful to you answer your earlier question?
Doesn't the fact that this class is useful to you answer your earlier question?
Lao Tzu
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i don't like college (but i don't really like anything else for that matter so i wouldn't take my experience as gospel) that is why i am trying for an associates degree. i want to do 40 credit hours a year (15 spring/fall, 10 summer), so i can get out in 1 1/2 years.
Thank god for placement exams, CLEP tests & the fact that you can determine your own schedule.
ps if you just need a degree to put on your resume, you can. they are called 'diploma mills'. sadly most are shut down, and are no longer 'accredited'. but you may find an accredited diploma mill somewhere. good luck.
Thank god for placement exams, CLEP tests & the fact that you can determine your own schedule.
ps if you just need a degree to put on your resume, you can. they are called 'diploma mills'. sadly most are shut down, and are no longer 'accredited'. but you may find an accredited diploma mill somewhere. good luck.
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Warik,
No. NO ONE is making the inductive assumption in which any quality that cannot be taking away, is good, except yourself.
U misinterpreted the persons statement for ur own purpose.
As for college being useless. Perhaps your negative opinion of college is the result of the particular college uve chosen to attend? Professors regularly do filter appropriate, practical information, and incorporate it into their lecture material. However, in order to get a robust understanding of the evolution of certain diciplines, knowledge that may be considered outdated, or obsolete, is also passed on to students to give them a perspective of where the feild was, and where the feild is headed.
If all you wanted was practical information without theory, why didnt u just go to an IT school?
Theory is great, because it gives u the tools to create ur own solutions, instead of being taught individual solutions, that without underlying theory, cant be manipulated.
No. NO ONE is making the inductive assumption in which any quality that cannot be taking away, is good, except yourself.
U misinterpreted the persons statement for ur own purpose.
As for college being useless. Perhaps your negative opinion of college is the result of the particular college uve chosen to attend? Professors regularly do filter appropriate, practical information, and incorporate it into their lecture material. However, in order to get a robust understanding of the evolution of certain diciplines, knowledge that may be considered outdated, or obsolete, is also passed on to students to give them a perspective of where the feild was, and where the feild is headed.
If all you wanted was practical information without theory, why didnt u just go to an IT school?
Theory is great, because it gives u the tools to create ur own solutions, instead of being taught individual solutions, that without underlying theory, cant be manipulated.
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College is worth it. The main thing is to take what you're interested in. Not what is going to make you the most money, not what your family wants you to study. You are going to get an education for yourself, not someone else. It can be a very rewarding time in your life. Go, have fun and enjoy yourself.
Um, someone mentioned that MIT was in the Ivy League--just to clear things up, it's not.
There are eight Ivy League Schools:
-Harvard
-Princeton
-Yale
-Columbia
-Cornell
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-The University of Pennsylvania
Look it up if you don't believe me. I applied to 4 of them.
But why quit school? It can get you a lot of jobs depending on your major, and it's so EASY! Hell I got a 3.7 last semester without even trying!
Besides, ya gotta love that slightly superior feeling you get when you're talking to some dumbass and you're thinking "this idiot doesn't even know how to integrate a transcendental function!"
There are eight Ivy League Schools:
-Harvard
-Princeton
-Yale
-Columbia
-Cornell
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-The University of Pennsylvania
Look it up if you don't believe me. I applied to 4 of them.
But why quit school? It can get you a lot of jobs depending on your major, and it's so EASY! Hell I got a 3.7 last semester without even trying!
Besides, ya gotta love that slightly superior feeling you get when you're talking to some dumbass and you're thinking "this idiot doesn't even know how to integrate a transcendental function!"
Lao Tzu
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Enrico said:Um, someone mentioned that MIT was in the Ivy League--just to clear things up, it's not.
There are eight Ivy League Schools:
-Harvard
-Princeton
-Yale
-Columbia
-Cornell
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-The University of Pennsylvania
Look it up if you don't believe me. I applied to 4 of them.
But why quit school? It can get you a lot of jobs depending on your major, and it's so EASY! Hell I got a 3.7 last semester without even trying!
Besides, ya gotta love that slightly superior feeling you get when you're talking to some dumbass and you're thinking "this idiot doesn't even know how to integrate a transcendental function!"
http://www.insideedgenewsletter.com/articles/november1999/ivy-league_schools.html
school is easier if you learn how to learn, or if you have good genetics.
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Warik
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Enrico said:Besides, ya gotta love that slightly superior feeling you get when you're talking to some dumbass and you're thinking "this idiot doesn't even know how to integrate a transcendental function!"
Well, what would be your first response if I laughed at you because I could write a recursive algorithm to search a list of 5,000,000,000 names and find the name I'm looking for after only a handful of checks and you couldn't?
Most likely: "Why do I care? How does that benefit my life?"
That's often what the guy who doesn't know how to integrate a transcendental function thinks as well.
If the study of something will not benefit your life, why should you be forced to study it? Why should Computer Science majors take Biology classes? Why should Psychologists take Math classes? Give me a break.
-Warik
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Warik
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nordstrom said:
Lol... my friend goes to Harvard and was majoring in CS. I looked at some of her homework and what she was studying and informed her that she was paying 30k a semester to learn less than that for which I paid only 2k a semester.
Nothing like spending 40 years to learn nothing and being 6 digits in debt... BWHAHAHAHHA. Let's see how useful your Ivy League degree is in 10 years when people want to know what you've done in the past 10 years as opposed to what you did 10 years ago. LOL
-Warik
Lao Tzu
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Warik said:
i heard from campus workers that it is because most students don't know what they want to do with their life, so they are required to take about 10 various non-career relevant courses to determine what subject(s) they like better and if they should change their major to study that.
i looove sociology, but there is nothing you can do with the degree unless you have an MA or Ph.D.. even then there is no guarantee you will be more than a pet monkey for corporations.
how is that relevant to day to day life? it isn't, i just felt like saying it.
