Dazed and Confused
The University has kept me awake at night. Not through noise, or anxiety, but toward a discontent with the realization that this all leads us to nothing. That's what keeps me awake now and my mind away from the thoughts of queueing structure and net present values that I am supposed to be programmed to learn. I should be writing a paper on the
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As for other requirements... Your alma mater is damned flexible, I think, in comparison to other schools, and you should be grateful for that. It's no problem to fulfill the undergrad pre-reqs through a wide variety of classes. Fulfill your 'math' req through philosophy, for example. Of all the books I've been 'forced' to read, there was only maybe one or two that I didn't like, or find SOME value in, and it opened my mind to things I otherwise wouldn't have studied.
RE: Grades... The fact that we have grades does NOT mean people aren't interested in learning. I love learning. I was interested in the material a ton. The mere presence of grades does not mean that the people recieving them are being falsely forced to care about learning, or being bribed, or what have you.
Grades are there to monitor our progress and -- yes - to give potential future employers SOME idea of how well we performed in school. If I were an employer, I'd want to choose the A student over the C student. After you've been out of school a few years, employers can base their decisions on other things, like what you've done with the past few years of your life. But in the beginning, at least, they need something to go on. Even aside from the job stuff though, the grades are there, as I said, to monitor our progress. To give a student a numerical measurement of how well he/she is understanding the material, or how well/badly he/she is performing.
Your rant is well-intended and heartfelt, but it's the farthest thing from original, nor is it at all well-thought out. What you're proposing is basically education-system anarchy.
What's the point? If you want to just study whatever you want, then why go to school at all? Why pay someone? Just quit school and go study on your own, or audit classes at your state's schools. You might have trouble getting a job, but you can try. Prove your point and the validity of your system by becoming qualified for a business position not by going through an organized system but by your own ad hoc methods, impress an employer with your know-how, get a job, be successful, live a life without worrying about money (as you complained about in another post), and when you do all that, I'll take my hat off to you.
But for now, I see rants like yours as childish. You're just disgruntled about some essay you don't want to write, even though it's the things we want to do the least in school that often prove to be of the greatest benefit to us.
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