College as a training ground for the workforce rather than a place to simply learn for learning’s sake is one of the worst aspects of capitalism
this is not unique to capitalism lol in cuba high school students take an aptitude test and are given a list of 5 or so careers to choose from (based on what’s needed) and then spend the next 6 years studying that career
Phoebe and Monica get arrested at a suffragette rally. Rachel goes on a date with H.P. Lovecraft and is not familiar with his work. Ross dies of influenza. Joey and Chandler make love in a World War I foxhole.
me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass
my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!
me:
when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit.
this was me in undergrad but then i did this on my first assignment of grad school and my prof wrote “you keep coming up with these hypotheses without any evidence” and then didn’t give me a grade so yeah i’m pretty sure it was bullshit the whole time
