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You guys had a peak?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I learned this much:

    I learned the education system is a lie.

    3 times they bait and switched me:

    1. From standard grade chemistry, promised to educate on chemistry, the whole periodic table, etc… Higher chemistry, they trained us to be industry drones, focusing on hydrocarbons only.

    2. From Art & Design 1st year college, promised to educate on art, all art… 2nd Year, knitting. (WTF).

    3. From Computer Art 2nd year college, promised to educate on all computer arts… 3rd year, web design. (WTF).

    I gave up on formal education after that (~ a decision that was further confirmed by other fails noticed in that last year).

    In the following year, I learned more on my own with an internet connection and a library card, than I had learned in the entire prior 14 years of formal “education”.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Stay curious.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I imagine this experience varies wildly depending on school

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      • MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        An A in Caluculus 2 for one school can be a C for another.

        This is why you get As in all the easy classes before transferring

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    • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve learned the same, but I’ve concluded the following: there’s a proper path for everyone, but there aren’t enough educators to give proper guidance in finding your path. If you can and are willing, I would still recommend the formal education. It’s finding your own path of growth that’s the difficult part.

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    • chgxvjh@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      education system

      Or as I like to call it imperial examination system

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where I learned things and inhaled books at a furious rate? Yes. Where I was successful academically? No.

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    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never let school get in the way of your education.

      Caveat: I’ve said this brashly to several deans, when it seemed appropriately inappropriate, and while a few are now good friends, the others acted troubled and now seem to avoid me. That is, YMMV. Some lifer academics may not understand when you disregard the only rubrics they know.

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      • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s a sheer existential terror of man fully actualized and living the most free life, observed from the other side of an academic table

        Whereas one life is half over and full of regrets, and mistakes

        The other has only just begun, and seems full of potential and worse yet, certainty

        What is there to do but to try to destroy something so beautiful?

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I did a lot better in college before I had to drop out because of lack of funds. But most of my academic career was failure after failure.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, making joints out of the pages of books doesn’t magically make you smart, you gotta read those pages first

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Strong anti-intellectual vibes to this one.

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  • ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is the help me part when you get a postdoc or still phd candidate?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, it’s when you are finished with your first postdoc and trying to get a faculty position.

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      • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Bro, I am making pre-leased Camry money now

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    • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      First day at the office dealing with all the narcistic sociopaths utilzinh the knowhow of my doctorate in engineering.

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      • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Jesus is sad when you use slurs. He had narcissistic personality disorder, and he was still a really nice guy. His grandiosity earned him a lot of suffering in life, he was even killed by the state for it. Truly, it was a disability. But he was by no means a bad person; he taught kindness, charity, pacifism, and empathy. Also, he was a communist.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Surely there will always be a job market for people who know as much about chlorine-argon biosynthesis of semi-compatible carbon lattice polymers withinn a Larson-Chekov matrix as I do.

    15 years later: “Hm, we are actually looking for expertise with the Anderson-Palmer reagent matrix.”

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You guys had a peak?

    Yeah - I was in trip form… when I started. Then it was all downhill from there.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The old slip n’ slide. Classic.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The smarter you get the more you learn how many fucking retards there are.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Want to edit one word in your comment? ;)

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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I said what I said and I meant it. Use your mod privileges if you deem this inappropriate for this community.

        I do appreciate the warning shot, though.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I agree with this, but just because I was around people my age with lots of free time

    Freedom doesn’t work when the people around you aren’t free

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I worked for about 25 years. Was very worth it getting an education. But today… I dont know. Looks like endgame capitalism kills society.

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  • hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is it grinding away at what little remains of my mental health? Yes! But it also allows me to do funny little experiments!!

    (and also no one would hire me… but I guess that means that I can stave off the soul-crushing capitalism-flavoured hell for a bit longer?)

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Me for about a decade before going fuck it and learning a trade

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hindsight: Wish I had.

      Foresight: Still can.

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  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I feel like the downward trend after the peak is accelerated if you are specifically studying philosophy.

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  • AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yeah it’s at the end of sophomore year when you’ve taken your last 100 class

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  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For me, it was the 1st year of high school, but I’m not an academic (yet hopefully).

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