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Those who understand industry are busy learning & growing. Rest are busy teaching for monthly salary. Either of these parties don't care about educating you because it doesn't benefit them. You think you're important? No. You're loud, dumb, potential competition and a liability. https://twitter.com/philshwifty/status/1293062069336420352
Degree is a status symbol & a "safety net" because you are living your parents' reality, where they saw people with degrees landing govt. jobs. Everyone gets same degree no matter difference in aptitude, hence in a privatised, global market; skills and results are sought after.
Universities celebrate your mediocrity & give you false sense of accomplishment because that keeps your baloon inflated but tied down as well. You're afraid of the market because if you're not cut for it, you'll be discarded; you'd rather have a promised degree then put in work.
A friend in college used to say, it doesn't matter what you do from 9 am to 4 pm because everyone is doing that same thing, what differentiates you from the herd is how you utilise your time from 4 pm to 9 am.
University, the way it exists today, it's not going to teach you anything - if you're here for leaning might as well cut losses & quit. Personally, I stayed because I found value in the different people I met & how much I learned from them - their ideas, skills & perspectives.
You're stupid if you think you're paying just for your course. You're paying for opportunity to experiment, compete & rivalry. Simulation of the pressure of organising and finishing quality work, it's knowledge bank - professors & library. Exploring different people & ideas etc.
Artists get paid heavily, but you have to learn science & commerce behind the art industry. Truth is, you don't have skills or humility to navigate this market. If you don't come out of the university more humble than when you went in, you've failed.
Start from ground zero if you must, take time to learn before wanting to capitalise on it - no problem in wanting money but if you get entangled in money & praise in a simulation (university), you'll fail miserably in the real world. Take responsibility and educate yourself.
Remember the first lesson:
