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No doctor... we were supposed to remove his appendix - not cut off his balls and dance around with them on a stick while drinking from a beer hard hat.
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As someone with severe ADHD. This is the only way I could deal with college. And even this might not work.
Nothing can go wrong
If I had this in my college years - impossible since we had no Internet available yet at all - I'd've been laughing. Stay home, stay online, and hack all the waking day? BSc in no time.
A dear friend lived near the uni in her home town, and so lived with her mom, rent-free, and just went all-out on coursework. In 3 years she got and paid to receive a BA. She earned enough for a BSc too, but didn't pay the fee for convocation and so doesn't have it.
Three years. Wow, would that have been awesome.
https://youtube.com/@9monthcollegegrad
And this guy channel shows you how. Might be the reason behind this.
Yeah it seems like the only thing they really learned was how to grift and exploit systems, not an ounce of appreciation for the creation, synthesis, or archival of knowledge. Like the degree equivalent of a speed reading scam, all surface no understanding or retention. There's no time for spaced repetition which I think is critical for long term retention.
Appreciation for the creation, synthesis, or archival of knowledge was already gone, this is just cutting out the fluff.
So I actually got my BS CompSci from WGU so I probably fall in this category. Did 2.5 years at community college for a math associates, ran out of money and joined the military, then finished the degree online in my last year in. I suppose all together it came out to about 4 years and it's accredited so {shrug}
I have mixed feelings about the degree, it got me the job I have now working as a Linux Sysadmin for a robotics company and working towards a role with the robotics Dev team but the education was thin.
Strictly speaking, if you did all the supplemental material you were given the classes were actually dense as hell but the problem was it was way easier to cram for each test.
That being said, I know a lot of CS grads that don't know what an array is so honestly I think I'm on the side of "maybe cramming all your education into 4 years is worse than just slowly picking at it over a lifetime".
I think I'd like to see a system like that. Like IT certs but not complete shit.
Everyone knows that lots of students dont learn in college but still graduate. Noone did anything about it.
Everyone knows that going this fast means people definitely won't learn. Noone is going to do anything about it.
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