@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.
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
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