Getting out of the military is a lot like that as well
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Yeah I just had em mail me the thing
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Yes, schools are prisons. Their purpose is not education at all but rather indoctrination, filtering, privilege, control, etc.
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Good job anon. Now take a long break and get back to it when you have your long term goals sorted.
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I wonder why they hated school. Maybe the problem was the school and not the topic? Otherwise I feel sad for them disliking the topic they chose as a career path :(
I feel like there's so much interesting stuff out there, there must be something useful that they find at least interesting.
Thankfully there is often a pretty big difference between studying and working.
I found there to be a level of stress in my studies that I never had a problem with later. An idea that any moment not spent pouring over books was contributing, at least in my mind, to inevitable failure; doubly so with exams looming ahead.
For me finishing my engineering degree was such a massive relief and work is so much better. I'm in anon's boat.
Yeah I can understand that sitting on a desk all day, reading and taking exams is a pretty harrowing experience for most.
It looks like it's my personal tastes that allowed me to enjoy school. And I really did enjoy it! Hopefully other people find something to do that they love.
Life can definitely feel easier after you find a job with a steady workflow. It's the slow creep of responsibilities that will eventually overtake the stress of having been a student.
Oh the people who managed a few critical but rarely used pieces of equipment left? Looks like you'll have to figure out how to run it yourself now with limited notes. Your project is floundering because other departments aren't being upfront about their workload? Now you'll have to babysit their work and send constant emails asking them to do their job so you won't fall behind schedule. Are you a doc approver? Better take your laptop with you during vacation to be available for signing off on it.
Educational institutions are mostly there either to make money or as a public necessity that the rich underfund to have a malleable electorate. The institutions are therefor often understaffed, incompletely equipped, or spending money on things of no benefit to education. The majority of lecturers are thus often quite underpaid, overworked, and unmotivated, which leads to many students being unimpressed.
There are very few institutions and staff that really can show up to work with a smile and be satisfied with their employment.
It's at times baffling and yet understandable why people do not vote for people or parties that want to treat education as a priority. They are a product of the influence of the rich and powerful on our institutions. That this dude is unsatisfied is no surprise to me.
Dang, I did not have the same experience in education! I'm thankful that the situation seems less dire where I'm from. Professors are quite well paid, definitely upper class; while tuition costs are less than 1k€ per year (with financial help available). As they are public institutions, Universities in Belgium do lack funds and their equipment/infrastructure is sometimes in a worse state than American or UK Unis. But still not too shabby!
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Do they not do the Iron Ring ceremony?
They might not be American - I don't think anywhere else does the iron ring thing....
The what ?
North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.
Hope they all take it off before doing anything power tool related or near any machinery that could catch it..
As originally conceived, the engineer's iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.
Think it's intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.
But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won't de-glove you if they get caught these days.
A myth persists that the initial batch of Iron Rings was made from the beams of the first Quebec Bridge, a bridge that collapsed during construction in 1907 due to poor planning and design by the overseeing engineers.
How can you do that to my, Wikipedia? I never believed in Santa, but I believed in the tragic origin of the ring.
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Yeah, in America, at the end of engineering school, all the students are gathered into the Iron Ring and they fistfight to see who actually gets a degree. Top 30% or so win. That's why I didn't go to engineering school, I didn't have enough time for gainz
That's 100% fake, you're busted
In america it would be a gunfight not a fistfight
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