Why does it feel like after two years of University I have learned literally nothing? I can't be the only one

Why does it feel like after two years of University I have learned literally nothing? I can't be the only one.

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>tfw to inteligence too university

I feel like speed you learn in a classroom is way too slow. I feel like they dumb it down so everyone can understand and succeed. A month of internet research about any topic is superior to spending four years at college for that topic to earn a degree.

I know more about politics than a political science major. Just kill me.

fackin casual, I learn nothing in 4 years

because if you aren't doing STEM then you are literally paying to get more stupid

not even meming

read antifragile by taleb

>just doing the bare minimum

dig deeper and if you have reached the bottom, dig further on your own, pleb.

t. got awarded PhD during my undergraduate degree for original work (some consider it seminal in the field)

literally an indoctrination camp. Get your paper and get as far away as possible

no one goes to university to learn fgt (unless its a lang)

its so u get your special paper so you can go work in maccy ds

It's more of a disciple and resourcefulness test for future employers.

What's your degree? GOing to college for non-STEM is literally a waste of time.

Because beside for STEM, University is a massive circlejerk and a waste of time, and also a waste of money (be it paid through taxes or otherwise).
t. physics post-doc

>special paper
This is one of the aspects of society I hate the most

Why would someone lie on the internet?

I'm a CPA, so I use my major everyday.

kek gotta admit, it's a good one though

Accounting. Apparently the accounting classes you take in college relate 0% to an actual accounting job. I still will need to get my CPA after I graduate.

Because everything of value taught in college can be learned 5x faster in a work environment and now with the internet you don't even need to do that to learn all this shit. Just open a search engine and type it in and you have all the knowledge in front of you to take in at your pace. No need to sit in an English class or some other useless class that has nothing to do with what you want to learn.

Hey mate can you tell me about your job and what it's like and give me some tips? Should I be doing internships? What's the best way to land my first job when I graduate.

That's not true at all

After I got a paid internship while still in school, I realized what a complete waste of time it was. At least 70% of the stuff they tried to teach us was useless, and the rest I could learn much faster with real world experience.

Pic related. Just look at the number of (((educated))) people supporting Hillary, yet the people who are financially successful in life are supporting Trump.

Those Hillary supporters are the Gender Studies majors with $150k of student loan debt who are working at mcjobs for the rest of their lives.

Our educators no longer believe that there is knowable truth, and they no longer think that man is a rational creature (they think man is a glorified beast).

Read Plato and the Bible.

You idiot
Universities are degree shops. Show up and don't be a retard. Get your degree and get a job.
THEN you will actually learn... kinda.

In my management, an average class is going over definitions. We spent two weeks learning what a manager is, what recruitment means, what leadership means, what an organization is, ect.

Before you can learn anything valuable, they have to go over all the definitions and the made up jargon.

Am I the only one that thinks that authors literally make up words and concepts that nobody knows in the real world so that the can sell books? I legit feel like they just make shit up to fill up the 300 pages or whatever.

I just go to the first classes in my course to see how the course is structured then download all relevant stuff from internet, then just show up to all the stuff that gets graded.

Of course this dont work with courses that requires "teamwork" and that sort of thing.

Most of the time my teachers just read off the powerpoint like drones. It fucking pisses me off and half the people end up skipping and the remaining people are distracted on their laptops, usually browsing facebook.

Ya fucking idiot. I'm a cpa that works big 4. YES YOU SHOULD BE DOING INTERNSHIPS. Go to your career center now. If you're a junior you still have time. Go to ask big 4 events and establish some rapport with recruiters. Make sure to apply for an internship. Get your fucking resume critiqued at least 3 times. Practice interviewing like your life depends on it.
Main things big 4 look for:
1. High GPA. 3.3 is minimum. 3.5 is good.
2. Personality. Don't be an autist. Ask questions, look interested, bring a notepad to write on, don't sperg out.

Landing an internship is fucking key. You will be guaranteed a job if you don't fuck up too bad. If you can't get into audit, big 4 recruits literally anyone into tax.

Forgot pic

>he fell for the education meme
All schools should be demolished, the modern education system is completely and utterly useless.

What year do I do an internship in? I am just year two. Also how is your job I'm worried I will end up not liking it, but I do enjoy my accounting classes. My GPA is 3.8

> A month of internet research about any topic is superior to spending four years at college for that topic to earn a degree

More or less correct. That is why assignments usually have a large research component. College is pretty much a case of you get out, what you put in. If you do more reading outside of just the lecture notes you will learn far more than just surfing by on the minimum.

same

Because you are taking a shit major at a shit state school

>expecting to learn something in adult daycare

university = application for a job in government
has nothing to do with learning stuff

>he thinks (((university))) is about learning

Going to college... To learn? Don't you know college is where you get indoctrinated into the subhuman intellectual workforce?

I've learned plenty and applied it to various internships. Try learning instead of memorizing.

One of the kids in my English class said the reason he is going to college is to get a government job, which he considers the gold standard in terms of the job market. He said that private jobs are good but you don't get a good pension from them.

which uni and which degree?

Macewan, bachelor of commerce, majoring in accounting.

I saw some pro Donald Trump graffiti in the bathroom stall last week lol

>taking uni in Alberta
tbqh its no wonder you feel you have learned nothing

well im just glad for you you didnt end up in cuckgary

Listen to this guy.

This is the single right way to make use of university. If you're a full time student doing nothing but headcramming and barely passing classes you might as well just drop the fuck out.

You start applying at year one. You don't wanna get out of university and end up being a fucking rookie.

This x 1000. University in any other context except ((STEM)) is basically just glorified baby sitting. Education does not necessarily have to be formal to be effective. My parents both make around the same amount of money. My mother went to 4 year college for a stem degree, and my father couldn't go, so he worked at a fish house, where he still works today, but instead of being a bottom rung worker making minimum wage, through hard work and paying attention to the company he became manager. There isn't one way to be successful in life, and you feel like you haven't learned anything because you probably haven't, nothing that seemed important anyway.

Sorry if this a stupid question but where would I found out what internships are out there for my major?

Is it possible to be this aspergery?

he's not wrong
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>that feel when most of what I learned came from Sup Forums
I'm really glad I found this place

Internships are junior year. 3rd.
If you're a minority or have a high GPA or just really lucky then you can get into an early program on your sophomore year (now). Go to your career center and ask them about it. It's quite literally a six week bullshit position that guarantees you an internship next year. And that, in turn, guarantees you a job.
In terms of the job itself, your experience will depend heavily on what you do. Tax, audit, or consulting. Basically:
Audit: competitive, lots of travel, busy season at end of year, good for getting a CFO type job later, lots of writing.
Tax: not competitive, very long hours jan to march, not so much travel, hard to get a private job afterward, no writing, lots of calculations.
Consulting: Impossible to get into unless you have connections, travel all the time, sporadic hours, no real work beyond bullshiting and selling snake oil, can probably switch out to a proper consulting firm later.

D-does stem include s-social sciences?

>internship
Yep, go for an internship at the Big 4.

I have to disagree. Everyone and their mother wants to do audit now. Tax is for the true patricians. I was at a dinner with a Big 4 partner the other day, and he was complaining that way to many people are doing audit and not enough are interested in tax.

>Canadian education

I'll talk to my career center about this thanks guys. Oh and by the way, I am white (90% Ukrainian) but I do have some Metis blood and this brings many benefits. I have a high GPA and the Metis scholarships I got covered $4000 dollars worth of my education last year and I can get them again if I keep up the good work each year. Just because I have my license to show I have Native blood in me I will defs have a leg up if I apply to internships.

Possibility 1: you have only taken core classes (humanities bullshit) and haven't started courses relevant to your field of study.
Possibility 2: you are studying a useless major that doesn't require any thought or effort.

If you're majoring in STEM and still don't feel like you're learning anything, something is wrong. Consider going to another school or something.

Of course they want you to do audit. If you do audit you can leave. If you do tax you're pretty much stuck in the big 4 unless you find some corporate tax department position in some multinational. Good luck with that.

pol and free time is all you need

its a marxist brainwashing camp

you;re supposed to be dumber than when you go in when its all done

Apply through your career centre and if you are a Canadian student, seriously sign up to FSWEP online. You can get a government job extremely easy and it is a good way too boost experience for your resume. Even if you don't have a high GPA, FSWEP is a great way to get your foot in the door for a professional work environment.

Junior here, I got an internship at #1 big 4 in the spring.

University is largely a scam to enrich the intelligentsia. I learned more in a few months of real work as software developer than I did in 5 years on University.

Not Sup Forums - Politics

Same.
>Work job for years.
>New kids come on
>"They're smart! They're college grads!"
>Lazy faggots that don't last 4 months and crash equipment.
>These people are considered "Smarter" than me by the majority of the population because they followed a schedule and filled out papers despite having the common sense and intelligence of a fucking brick.

Wrong degree

Because learning isn't given by exchanging money, it's taken by effort.

University is a sham. It's amazing to me after the internet that people still fall for this shit. Knowledge isn't locked up in a room somewhere, it's everywhere. You can get any degree you want with a $5 library card or an internet connection. People pay for the piece of paper, which is why it is SO IMPORTANT TO PICK A PIECE OF PAPER THAT WILL PAY YOU AFTER YOU GET IT.

University is just an extension of high school

tfw calculus classes were the most entertaining classes

Should've went mathmatics

You're learning to learn and not be a complete useless fucking idiot in college. You're not there to actually learn shit.

He could be so smart even stem major related isn't challenging

Sup Forums = anti politics

Get an internship for the summer

>He fell for the college meme.
Mfw

Autodidacts are rare. And a degree guarantees you they at least showed up to a class that taught that information. "On your own" guarantees you nothing.

There are some fundamental problems. One companies don't want to waste time money and resources training complete greenhorns and two the job market isn't the best.

Especially here, if it's bad out there in the US/Can (which it is I know I lived out there) it's much worse out here. I could get jobs out there. There's jack didly squat here. And you start out at fucking Min. Wage. $7.25 or $7.50. Even if you have experience.

It's not worth working here as a new employee. You get more out of government assistance than working full time.

srsly, there exist one or two college professors who are really smart

Spent the past 2 years at my first course (Laboratory Medicine) before I decided it wasn't for me, swapping into Human Bio Preclinical in the hopes of finding my way and then doing a Post-Grad to specialise.

Those 2 years felt just like upper high school, you went, memorised stuff, passed the assessments then forgot everything and did again the next semester.

Pretty easy to do if you network with clients. I never understood why people say it's so hard to leave. I intern in a corporate tax department right now; people come and go all the time.

>senior year in college
>literally did the bare minimum

how fucked am I?

I have studied international business for 1 year, literally learned nothing but management theories which won't work in practice. Now I switched to international economics and I do actually learn stuff. I read the economist (I know that's just a newspaper/magazine) but I can relate to so much stuff they say there because I actually learned about it. I think it really depends on the degree, whether you will learn anything or not. As far as I can tell now, the more theories and terms you literally have to study, the more useless your degree is.

you go to university to teach yourself not to be spoonfed

>tfw to smart to learn

Probably because you picked a garbage fucking major fuck off

I recently finished my first two courses and they were pretty intense.
I got very little sleep the last week.

Then I started the new courses this week and it is so simple. I finished two weeks worth of assignments in one day.

I thought European education was supposed to be incredibly rigorous.

I have nothing to compare it to, so I can't say.
It varies between universities/courses.

No thanks

i half know this feel

>working at research lab im de best better than half of the masters students
but
>getting a stupid piece of paper in order to be MO
>tfw captain

I wish I had that kind of work ethic. I fucked up my college experience because I have a terrible work ethic when it comes to academics. Didn't return back to college because my GPA dropped to 2.9 and I need 3.0 or better to transfer to university.

Congrats, you just learned your first lesson.

You'll learn another one in 2 years & 6 months.

it was the same for me throughout the entirety of high school m9

Because shit like liberal arts is not real education.

I tend to be lazy and procrastinate if the thing I'm studying is boring to me, but the last course was really interesting so it kept me motivated.

All is said here.

85% of the time spend in classrooms i was doing nothing but think about other shit. Except for a few cool teachers it was a waste of time.

Years of potential flushed down the toilett

language learner here

university is bad for that too. go on the internet, search in the language, start reading while looking up words

tada you are now infinitely more productive than in a language class

You don't actually learn anything you didn't go over in K-12 until junior year. Everything before then is core education bullshit.

Econometrics is the only one that could count. It's the bridge between social and hard Sciences.

communist indoctrination center

congrats op you fucked yourself big time, should've gone to a small but respected college or catholic university.

This. Its astounding how much actual history, philosophy, and politics I have learned in the past year alone through Internet research on my own time. The only subject that I can say I'm gaining any educational value in at all are my technical drafting and modeling classes.

i could be your model bb ~

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