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by jgmmo 2027 days ago
Count me in on this. Colleges are a joke right now. I went back to school to fill in maths for grad school, and it's a shit-show right now.

You get better education on YouTube. what do we do now that the standard professor trying to teach remote is worse than youtube?

Paying thousands a semester only to end up using all free resources to actually learn.

One of these days we'll fire 90% of them, and then we can all learn from the top 10%.

Youtube, plus Kahn academy, plus openmit

/rant

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Undergrad has been a joke for decades. Try learning differential equations as a 19 year old from a TA that can't speak intelligible English. At least nowadays you can watch an actually informative video on your headphones while you nod along in class.
It depends on the college. Some colleges like Harvey Mudd College have actual English fluent professors teaching undergrad courses. But tuition is very expensive.
Took ordinary and partial differential equations with a chaired professor who was a native English speaker. Still don't understand them, but I guess that's on me.
College isn't for learning things, it's for building connections to future leaders before those people realize they're too valuable to want anything to do with you.
Which is hard to do via zoom.
Right now is pretty much the best time to take a gap year.

Either that or try to get a transfer at a better college.