"downfalls" of higher education
Posted by Emma Hryniewicz
sooo... I constantly hang out in chatrooms. The past few days on AIM, I've launched into a few angry tirades of "I hate school, I hate technology, it's going to be a long night, a long week and I feel like I'm doing a decapitated chicken routine".
And I know most of it's uncharacteristic because I'm an IT major, technology is in some sense my life force. I just have really bad luck when it comes to laptops (My Dell just fried this weekend--yeah, i know you get what you pay for with a Dell laptop). And I've learned generally that by no means am I a coder. I simply don't have the thought process for it. I'm a tester. My passion is in playing and experimenting, not building.
Today, said rant lead to a very interesting discussion with a Science Education/Computer Science double major about coding team projects, professors, and the downfalls of the academic system.
He's older so I do think he has some valid points.
His view is that essentially most Computer Science professors are resear ... more »
Posted: November 3, 2008 9:06 pm | 0 comments
Tags: academic system, coding, computers, extracurriculars, higher education, thought process