All That School Stuff Is Meaningless ???

[WSGP]

All depends on what you want out of college and want to do with your life. My take is the better you do in school the more choices you have. Most people dont get all they can out of the college experience educationally wise. Being a science major and doing well in classes got me a paying job in one of the professor's lab, who ended up discussing me with some of his colleagues who have friends in places if I ever wanted to be there. What you know will get you far but who you know will get your further. Most dont take advantage of the plethora of internships available and subsequently get stuck with an education and no experience. I dont want to work in a lab or teach so I will be going to a PA grad school program of my choice for little to nothing out of my pocket. Why? Because I took advantage of the opportunities made available to me in college.Too many people assume that college is only about the degree and mis-out on the exponentially valuable connections. Just my two cents.

 

[So ILL]

I mess with Cracked.com......some of those lists they have are so random, but they make some good points.....

 

[aijalon]

It's all about being strategic and educating yourself even before stepping foot on a University campus. I think for alot of young people going into the University experience it can be either a feeling out process or a compromise. By compromise I mean that alot of students pursue a field of study without having the slightest idea as to what the implications are on their future. My advice is that the individual do some soul searching and figure out a few things:
1. What do I want to do long term
2. What field of study best helps me to get there
3. What's the most cost effective way to do this and be successful.

Alot of individuals go the University route when they would have been better served attending a JUCO or COMMCO for a few years before parlaying that education into a bachelor's or Masters degree. Depending on what it is that you want to pursue you may not even need to go the University route. It's all about being strategic about you education and not incurring too much debt in the process.

 

[babafryo]

Trill shit

 

[Beware]

lol i read cracked everyday!!

 

[MICHAEL-V.I.]

well thats what the good folks at Cracked says

Middle School's important. High School's important. You need to do well in High School to get into a good College, and then you need to do well in College or... or something something something, your life will be terrible. I was never clear on the specifics, I just knew that there was a direct correlation between my GPA and my total cumulative happiness for the rest of my life. A higher GPA means the best people will hire you, having "Summa Cum Laude" written on your diploma will make women more attracted to you, getting a 1500 on your SATs will make you less fat, etc. The Dean's List must be important to your future, or why would it exist? Surely someone down the line will be impressed to know that you made it all four years, right?

The Reality

The only skills you really need to learn in high school and college are how to socialize and be a functioning human in society, because that's the only thing you'll be consistently doing for the rest of your life. It's a really strange system, because when you graduate college, no matter what you studied, the only thing you're really good at is being a student, because that's the only thing you've been doing regularly for 22 years. Studying, memorizing stuff, being able to eloquently bullshit about literary theory- You've got that shit down. The weird thing is that every skill you've mastered as a student? No one will ever ask you to use them again.

College is important, but what you study? Not so much. Focus on learning how to be a human, and focus on networking and meeting the right people, because they are much better at hiring you than your GPA is. Professors and Deans and your parents will stress that your grades are important, but I guarantee you that, as long as they were good at their job, no one in the history of time has ever been fired because of their GPA.

I'm slowly starting to realize that there's very little connection between whatever people majored in and what they end up doing, (apart from obvious specialized fields like medicine and engineering and so forth). And I might be wrong, because I'm an idiot, (see entry: 1), but I'm only going on personal experience. There are five full-time Editors at Cracked.com. At one point in all of our time here, we've all had basically the same job, (writing, editing, managing writers, maintaining a stable of sexually daring women, counting our giant money piles, etc). Of this group of Editors, there is not one instance of overlap in terms of what was studied in college. Same site, same job, but no two people graduated with the same major. We all ended up here not because we studied [X] while we were in college, but because writing and editing articles for a comedy website appealed to all of us, even though that particular class wasn't offered in school.

We've also never compared GPAs. Why the hell would we?

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-they-never-told-us/#ixzz1HgZhVro2

I didn't read all that shit yet, but don't be a fool

 

[fuc_i_look_like]

All I know is, how you do in highschool doesn't dictate how you'll turn out in life. True story.

 

[Jonas.dini]

And at the end of the day what 4 years of college does for most people is it teaches them how to behave as an adult. I remember when I first started college as an undergrad I was late to class all the time, dressed like a bum, never wanted to talk in class and when I did the ideas that I was trying to articulate came out in a half baked way... by the time I graduated I had learned how to be punctual, sit still, pay attention, articulate my ideas, write well and do so in a professional way, etc. Those are important skills to have and I notice that most people lack them, especially people without a lot of experience in the academy or some sort of comparable atmosphere.

And don't get me wrong, there are lots of problems with higher edu, but to say it's meaningless is to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Also I actually learned a lot in college.

 

[fiat_money]

I see this doesn't apply to proper majors.

Carry on.

 

[ItsBboy!]

School is only really important to people who are learning a unique skill. Like you said, engineering, medicine, law, contracts, etc. Your hear the exact opposite from professors and your peers because that's all they've been doing for the last x amount of years. Once you're in the real world its like you took the red pill and everything becomes painfully clear.

Honestly though, it's a two way street. People who did well will obviously value a GPA more than those who didn't. Even if both have the smarts to go on to own companies, the high GPA person will hire other people with high GPA's and the regular dude will hire people who have the raw skills/experience. I mentioned in another thread I've never once been asked about my GPA on a job interview AND the person that hired me for my current job was less educated. The world is bigger than the academic machine and not everyone takes the same path.

 

[major pain]

Why people like to stack the deck against themselves is crazy to me...

 

[powerman 5000]

" The weird thing is that every skill you've mastered as a student? No one will ever ask you to use them again."

FALSE.... Out of the 3 people I've had the pleasure of being apart of their hiring process and the 8-10 that I've interviewed; one of the things i look for the most is if the person is trainable, can they retain new knowledge and learn to use it.

 

[young law]

so it goes both ways
but personally i think most situations come down to who you know and how well you can sell yourself

 

[think]

School is more about being a business and making money these days.

 

[babafryo]

my mother's meds are almost finished and her healthcare wont renew her coverage but this teacher is trying to tell me about alexander the greats romantic past? (hypothetical but you get my point)

 

[buttuh_b]

I mean your GPA doesn't affect you later on down the line but in the immediate future when you're trying to get a job in a competitive field.. that's one of the few things they base their hiring process off of.

 

[yaboytheflashh]

that article is the truth. but while we're on the topic of school being meaningless, the sat test has got to be the dumbest thing in the universe. has nothing to do with knowing stuff, it's all about knowing how to take the sat... that's all it is. how does that predict anything? what do expensive sat prep classes, and trick questions have to do with competence or content knowledge?

 

[fuc_i_look_like]

my mother's meds are almost finished and her healthcare wont renew her coverage but this teacher is trying to tell me about alexander the greats romantic past? (hypothetical but you get my point)

trillaaaa post

 

[makaveli03]

everything in this society is about money the niggas running this country are all about how to make profit...everything that has to do with actually being educated and giving people the opportunity to actually do what they want to learn and earn a good living is not important to them..College is the best way to have niggas throw their money into the government without feeling like they are getting robbed but you are because you arent gonna learn shit but how broke you have become after 4 years

 

[Sh0t]

If I could go back in time, I wouldn't go to high school either. I went to a gifted junior high that was harder than even the most challenging classes I had in college.

I would have just got started working and paying people to teach me specific skills.

College teaches people to act like adults? Maybe in some other colleges, not the ones I've been to.

If it took you until college to learn to be punctual and dress appropriately, I'd say something failed along the way. I learned that in grade school. College is a joke for 'life skills", in my opinion. Plenty of immature college graduates out there.

A part time job as a high school kid will probably teach you better and faster, if it's something fairly demanding.