🧵 Modern College Is a Scam
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:13:19 UTC No. 16252142
Why do people even go to college anymore? Everything is online. Modern college is a scam.
>Textbooks
>Old Exams
>Practice Problems
>Lectures
>Tutoring Sessions
>Syllabi
You could literally teach yourself all of program one course at a time.
>Buy the used textbook
>Download the old exams
>Find the syllabus online (so you know what chapters actually matter)
>Watch the lectures on YouTube
You can have an MIT education for free. The only thing you can't get are labs and shit, but those things don't really matter.
I'm engineering, and I realized this first semester when professors would just read off PowerPoint slides that were posted online anyways. You literally don't need to go to class (I still did). During the breaks, I'd email professors for the syllabus to get a head start on my class so I can chill during the semester while all my friends were busting their asses in the library.
>Anon, how do you party/go to the gym all the time and still get great grades.
It was amazing.
But yeah, it's amazing how stupid college is now. People who go to college to "learn" are literally retarded. It's all on YouTube. The only reason I went is because you need that piece of paper to be an engineer, plus there's all sorts of great opportunities like undergrad research, internships, co-ops, and study abroad programs. But the funny thing is most students don't do any of that lol.
Honestly, you could probably teach yourself everything in like 2 or 3 years, go to college, get straight As, and go work at SpaceX or some shit.
My grades aren't perfect, but they're good. I don't give a shit because I'm interning in the natural gas industry, and they're paying me 40 an hour as a fucking intern lol. That's about as much as you can possibly make as an intern anyways, even though it's not something prestigious like NASA. I'm hoping for a nice pay bump once I start actually working here.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:32:00 UTC No. 16252160
>>16252142
You sure like talking about yourself on social media
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:46:41 UTC No. 16252334
>>16252142
>Why do people even go to college anymore?
So that they prove to others that they can achieve a certain level of knowledge and competence and get a document attending that achievement, so that you can then show that document to others that wish to hire someone, and they can place you in positions of responsibility that would require such knowledge and/or competence.
>You could literally teach yourself all of program one course at a time.
Yes.
>You can have an MIT education for free.
Yes
>I'd email professors for the syllabus to get a head start on my class so I can chill during the semester while all my friends were busting their asses in the library.
Nice, smart.
>get straight As, and go work at SpaceX or some shit.
Exactly, but only if holding the document I mentioned above, and for that, you need toa ttend college.
No one is going to hire some guy who walks in and says they want to work there?
>who the fuck are you?
>I'm Joe Doe, and I know lots about <subject>
>Do you have a document showing that you do?
>No, but I studied on my own and I can show you that I do know.
>Sorry, we don't have time for that. Next applicant, please!
That's why you go to college.
Also:
>You sure like talking about yourself on social media
Tone it down a bit. Arrogance isn't a virtue. Keep your ego in check, be thankful and humble, not cocky.