If STEM millennials default on our student loans en masse it's going to actually be the death of academia. It won't just be that some degrees are useless, but that basically all degrees are useless. Even the shitlibbiest of shitlib millennials who go through permanent (or even temporary but still long-term) financial ruin from student loan default will beat that drum to their graves.

Expect a lot of make work WFH bullshit soon.

@NEETzsche
To this day, I cannot wrap my head around why are universities trying to be 3 fucking things at once.
1) Education facilities (barely)
2) Scientific shit (however that is supposed to be connected)
3) Money extraction facilities for people who didn't have the "I wanna be an astronaut" talk with their dad at the age of 6.

And I hate it. :ayaya:

Undergraduate programs are supposed to provide education. Postgraduate education, like masters and PhD programs are meant to conduct research, which is the discovery of new knowledge. The money extraction part is kind of a recent contrivance. It’s not that universities don’t perform any function – the first two are perfectly legitimate – it’s that the ones in the West went from absolutely world class to complete trash in my lifetime. It’s tragic, but it’s reality.

We’ll see if they ever recover.

@NEETzsche
Well, no.
If universities were about Education, it would not be locked into a credit system, and closed up. On the opposite, they would allow you to study every subject for years, from outside, and get certification about your abilities.

I am public about the fact, that I passed literally all classes and the final test. Yet, according to the UNI, I am an uneducated shithead, because they didn't like my batchelor thesis. Does that seem like an education institution?

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Also, there were unironically group projects in half of the classes. You know.... Because 1 person making 5 other people pass is what I call education :omegalul:

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