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by jmrm
1402 days ago
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I'm temporally leaving my degree on Telco/EE due to this. I have passed and done well in all the subjects but those "memory-heavy" math, and that's what I have left. We have to memorize a lot of information without the explanation about why is done in that way (due to the lack of time in those subjects), and also we are more encouraged to study how previous year's exam were made than the content itself. This one of the big reasons only 10% to 15% (IIRC) of the enrolled students pass those exams every year. That scene, knowing that I have to do a task that is time consuming, pretty hard, artificial, and useless for the rest of my academic life, my work life, or my life in general, is what made me leaving this year. I don't have enough mental health to do such a big thing. PS: Sorry for the rant. I'm having too much time at home due to COVID and maybe wrote too much. |
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I am middle aged and completed my EE degree when I was 20, but it was 90% theory with very little practical use (mostly useful if you were to continue climbing up the education chain). Completing the degree made me despise working with electronics, a topic I had deeply loved and had spent my teenage years learning for myself. Most courses were rote learning, and I was very good at passing exams, but it was two years before I realised how pointless the majority of the “knowledge” was, and then I forced myself to finish the degree (sunk cost), which I now regard as one of the few true mistakes of my life (wasted years, for valueless academic “knowledge”). The degree got me a software job, so there is that, but I am sure I would have ended up in software anyway (early love of computers).