College is like the least efficient way to learn things, at least US college. At least half the classes I took in college was shit I already learned in high school. The fact that you are forced to take classes you don't need to be "well-rounded" just makes learning stuff take way too long, and it's just a way to get more $$$ out of you. And the lack of basic skills the younger guys at work don't know is astonishing and they have basically 0 problem solving skills.
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It's funny you say that in my college(OSU) only business majors learn in-depth excel formulas(for the most part), and only programming and data analytics learn in-demand languages like Python, Java, Javascript, C++, and learning R, Stata, and Python are optimal for social science majors. Guess what a lot of the work at my job was excel, python, and Microsoft access. My college however loved citations, citations, citations, and not the fun type where you post the link and hyperlink it, no it's the one created by English majors to be as annoying as possible. (MLA9, Chicago Style, etc.) I spent half of my assignments writing them, and many students outright used fewer sources in order to create less of them making their papers less academically rigorous.
If you "spent half of your assignments writing [citations]", that's entirely a you failure, mate. Tools like Easybib have existed for over two decades now.
Ten years ago when I was in school they weren't amazing tools honestly. I used Zotero, and that would just periodically grab incomplete or disorganized information causing you to have to fix it yourself. That's setting aside the fact that even only a decade ago online libraries like science direct and such were still rough around the edges and often lacked information in areas that were less popularly studied - which is unfortunately where grad students spend all their time. I had to pull around 20 physical documents for my thesis and it took on the order of hours to copy out the information, and days to confirm it by hand. You always had to write out or photocopy most of the first few pages just in case something was missing or lost. I ended up having to pull good documents out of my work because they were from a university in Egypt and translated to English by a prior student for her thesis. Problem was she seemed to have mis transcribed a name, either an author or the name of an institution, and we couldn't confirm the source so it was rejected.
Oh, definitely. They were more of an "easier formatting once you'd found all of the necessary info" than "do it all for you" tool back then. As an undergrad around that time, it didn't eliminate all of the work, but they did handle the most tedious portions*.
Yeah, its just frustrating annoying work most of the time. I'm glad its easier, and I hope those kind of tools are available most places. Translations are still probably an issue, but even those are becoming official in some places so maybe it isn't as bad. A guy told me some German universities are requiring students to publish their thesis in both German and one other language, usually English, for the sake of helping disseminate new knowledge which is pretty cool if true. The Americas could definitely be doing that with Spanish/English/Portuguese or whatever to get the continents working together a bit more. Nothing more heartbreaking as a grad student with no money than finding out a really good paper exists on exactly the topic you want, but only the title is translated and you gotta hire someone to do the rest.
I like to take research from lots of sources. I had a student sub or access to NYT, Wapo, WSJ, the Atlantic, and JSTOR. I do it because when I was taking environmental science gen-ed I almost used uncited research from Saudi Arabia on climate change when I knew a small amount of information on climate change.
Well then, your degree worked.
It honestly would not surprise me if the "Made in USA" tags were made in China. Just for that extra dollop of hypocrisy.Federal Trade Commission Finalizes Action Against “Made in USA” Offender Who Ripped “Made in China” Tags Out of Apparel, Replacing Them with “Made in USA” Tags
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an orderwww.ftc.gov
Right-wing clothing retailer Lions Not Sheep fined just over $200,000 dollars for removing 'Made in China' tags from its products and replacing them with phony 'Made in the USA' tags.
Yeah, it's the same problem with most things. They keep pretending pride month means THEY have to be gay.Kinda surprised this hasn't been mentioned (at least that I saw):
Is the Cracker Barrel menu getting 'woke'? Meat eaters rage on Facebook over addition of Impossible sausage
Cracker Barrel ruffled the feathers of meat eaters when it put plant-based Impossible sausage on the menu, sparking a culture war of words on Facebookwww.usatoday.com
Yep. Cracker Barrel dared to put a meat substitute on its menu (not even replacing anything, just adding), and the anti-woke crowd threw their bibs on the floor and screamed. One comment: "YOU CAN TAKE MY PORK SAUSAGE WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS. DON'T TREAD ON MY PORK!" (With that kind of reaction, having a coronary while downing pork sausage seems an eventuality.)
Of course, we all know what the real outrage is over: catering to someone else.
The anthropomorphic personification of death is a black woman now! This is clearly a conspiracy! Dream is not woke because he's sleeping but the rest of the are totally woke!
I find it funny the guy the DT Crew are calling out on, never read the source material. I only know little of Sandman through crossover fanfics and DC fan art, but fuck this guy! How it can be a distraction of diversity, when you never once read the comics?! Racist, homophobia, and sexism much, you asshole? You want everything straight white male? Start sucking the CEO of WB Discovery's dick for a 1000 hours. He's pretty much doing that. Netflix has been way more open with LGBQT and interracial relations for years. Why the hell is this dumb mother-fucker only now noticing? @Dalisclock, I think we have another fake or wannabe hardcore fan here.
Employers were happy to hive off education to universities. Otherwise they spent money training people themselves, and of course those apprentices might take that investment and sod off to a new firm - more so of course these days, because that whole "job for life" thing where people spent their careers at the same company have long since gone. However, companies also therefore train people to what the company needs. That's not necessarily the same as a university education, which is likely to be broader in scope, and more based on developing certain mindset and flexibility. Degrees of course do other things, as well though: they indicate a certain amount of aptitude and hard work, irrespective of subject. Employers are happy to receive evidence people can get on with work.
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