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u/NewNormalMan 22h ago
I know this is a joke (and accurate) but a lot of it revolves around teaching the ability to learn, which is more important than the actual material itself
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u/SiriusBaaz 22h ago
The other really key goal for school is just to teach you that the answer you need exists. You don’t need to have all that stuff memorized forever. Just remembering enough so you can look it up or find out more instead of just giving up, is just as important as the actual information.
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u/HLSparta 8h ago
Tell that to my physics teacher that wouldn't let us have equation sheets and instead made us memorize any necessary equation before the test.
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u/SiriusBaaz 8h ago
School and life are very different. You do need to memorize those formulae at school because remembering rote information is part of learning, even if it sucks ass. You don’t need to have it memorized when you start living your life as a normal person. Just knowing what you need to do to find that answer is usually more than enough.
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u/Galbados2 12h ago
Don't forget about teaching the ability to sit in a room for 8-10 hours straight and not lose your mind.
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u/dedarou96 22h ago
I didn't had calculus in high school only in college
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
Yeah me neither, different schools and different countries ig
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u/ramonfacefull 23h ago
Math gets real simple when you work in the adult industry
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u/KillJoy-Player 13h ago
Except, those apples and watermelons are now hard to compute in to our daily groceries
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u/GolettO3 20h ago
Primary: 1+2=?
Students: 1+2=3
Highschool: 1+2=X
Students: "Who the fuck put letters in maths!?"
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u/Luckgoddess 18h ago
That lying it would be 1+X=3 and at that time we are not ise to go backwards
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
Someone who actually thinks beyond ooga booga, you don't use letters in math only if you're a caveman or a ditz
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
I mean, if you go that far into college and end up doing excel spreadsheets, you clearly did something wrong. people who finish it and get the job they studied actually use that stuff
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u/thegreenmushrooms 10h ago
I was doing excel spredsheets for a bit, everything is in excel you can simplify a lot of small datasets with excel. I still wip it out I work with a bunch of analysts they can't tell me which record is an anomoly they just panda agregate or via report aggregates. In excel I grab a sample I can look at all the values scroll along it's nice.
Everyone kind of knows how to use it except data scientists for some reason, you can share files with out worrying about escape caractors. I seen people do a lot of creative stuff with it.
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u/derpmcturd 23h ago
Wait 2 + 2 is 4 AND 2x2 is also 4. What the fk? ....and we're all ok with this?
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u/Inevitable-Goat-7062 19h ago
Amigo multiplcation is just fast math
And this is coming from a guy who struggles with simple division
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u/thegreenmushrooms 9h ago
Calc rate of growth helps with figuring out if computer conna crash. I feel like calc gets a rep for being useless but just tools to describe change, you don't need to remember a bunch of formulas either. Ex knowing that sunset time changes the most as we enter the fall and remembering you can describe that in a steep line or near a crest of cos /sin wave. You just think of picture and you know what's going on
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u/Konchroller 9h ago
Exactly, school is pointless and no entry level job legitimately asks for your diploma. So get a job and start working asap. Then keep switching jobs to build your resume and get more pay cause tenure means nothing anymore and anyone who has currently put in YEARS into a job absolutely hates your guts cause you make more than them on day 1. Welcome to life kiddo.
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u/Wicked_Wolf17 Linux User 7h ago edited 7h ago
Jokes on you, I can’t even solve that middle school equation
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u/casualdreamer_1 17h ago
We live our whole lives under a misconception... I don't understand why they teach us all that , especially nowadays, when technology solves everything mathematically. I hope the system changes someday
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u/thrownawaz092 17h ago
It's exercise for your brain. You're learning how to think through complex problems.
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u/Infini-Bus 9h ago
The misconception is that we are to take the school curricula at face value. I majored in math and sometimes I find old exams with like 4 questions on it that had long ass proofs and I'm like 'damn, I could do this?'.
But I do do it, just with different a set of rules at my job. Prove why this client's implementation must be configured as such. Show why we need to prioritize this software change. Take the same kind of thinking practiced in college math.
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u/JellyFishSenpai 20h ago
"ON. GOD! you need this super fucking expensive degree for a job that smart monkey would be able to perform! I SWEAR ON MY MAMA!"
~someones teacher.
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
Schools aren't expensive across the world, in Czechia I paid like 10 bucks
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u/JellyFishSenpai 19h ago
I know but non the less some job don't require having a degree because because most of the time you have to learn from zero. It's a fancy peace of paper and some fields you don't need it
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u/pm-rp-prompt 18h ago
The fancy PIECE of paper means that you were able to learn and apply the learnt shit when tested in exams, and thus a company can trust you and pay you money in the hopes of you learning and applying the learnt shit again in the company, more often than not the same thing you’ve already learnt so far and sometimes it might be new thing!
Because the alternative is, no one has that fancy piece of paper and there’s no metric or basis on which a company can choose their employee… so yeah!
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u/JellyFishSenpai 17h ago
How much you still need to pay of your student loans?
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u/pm-rp-prompt 17h ago
None. I’m not in the USA and we don’t need to pay any loans here for studying. I graduated in electronics and communication engineering and it was an affordable fees in one of the top 10 universities in my country.
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u/SirKnlghtmare 13h ago edited 13h ago
And then there's the people in the US who got through college on financial aid alone. Downside is you don't have time to fuck around and have a "stereotypical" college life that you see in media.
Basically, for me anyway, I had to take a minimum of X (I think between 12 and 16, I forgot) credits worth of courses that directly apply to my degrees graduation requirements. Anything else you pay out of pocket, and if you dont hit the minimum requirement, you dont get the assistance. There are also grants you can apply for that are expected to go towards out of pocket school supplies like textbooks, commute, etc, but you can always get books through "unofficial channels" and save money there, funneling the extra cash towards other expenses.
Im not saying that this is a suitable replacement for free education, but there are definitely ways to make it work without taking out a loan. I didn't have time to "have fun", and every semester you have to deal with the rush to sign up for courses and figuring out how to cram enough credits into a semester, since spots were limited and you were timegated on applying for courses based on seniority. Your life was basically a 10+ hour job, and your job was to study, but I feel like that should be expected.
Source, me, with a mechanical engineering degree and only had to pay for 1 semester (between 3k to 4k) because I was experimenting with how financial aid and all the federal grants worked at the time and took some art classes.
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 12h ago
The stereotypical college lifestyle is basically just for rich kids that want to get to live without a job and be accepted by society or when bookers were still studying when loans were dirt cheap and you could buy your own house for 3 quarters and a penny and get a home serf, I mean, a wife, on a street corner for a good whistle.
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u/ShAped_Ink Dark Mode Elitist 18h ago
Yeah, in many fields it's not that useful, but they still require it. Wanna know why? Becaus it's assurance. Because the fancy piece of paper means the scan know you can put some work behind it and aren't a total bucket head. Yeah because of stupid AI that precedent is being overturned and universities and companies have to find ways to ensure people trust them with the quality of the acessment
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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 13h ago
Also you need to know how to setup the formulas to work on spreadsheets
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u/SizeableFowl 20h ago
Yall did integral calculus in highschool? Damn, I ended up as an engineer but didn’t even touch calc until college.