<quote name="Jeff Schroeder" date="Wed, 26 Mar 2008 at 14:04 -0600"> > If you like learning and classes and the structured environment of > school, see if you can hook up with an employer who will pay for > classes. If you like learning and tinkering but don't need the classes > and tests, skip the school and poke around the internet reading about > new technologies, then apply some of them here or there to experiment-- > either at work or as a hobby project. I find that to be rewarding for > myself, and it keeps me "on top" of the latest developments in the IT > field without requiring me to quit my job, go to class, or pay lots of > money. :)
I like learning, I even like most of the classes... I _abhor_ the structured environment! Give me a good book and free time to explore the avenues that most interest me, and classes where the guidance of an experienced teacher is helpful. But by golly, don't bog me down with countless assignments, busywork and pointless excercises! Yeah sure, life is that way, you'll have to do things less interesting. But in life I actually have incentive to do those boring things, financial incentive, helping people, keeping my job... I stopped caring about grades a long time ago. I try to care, I really do, but I just can't get that level of caring high enough to concern myself with trite assignments. As you can imagine this has bitten me something aweful, but I still don't care! I can't help it. I see classes as windows into vast extroardinary worlds of fascinating new concepts, but I'm chained down to a few specifics the class expects out of me. Thus excelling in class is reduced to tunnel vision, while true excellence and an explorative mind into what you would be truly great at are carelessly stifled. </rant> I guess this means I won't be attending grad school, a decision I've been putting off as not immediate, yet all the while leaning towards no. Although teaching is somewhat attractive to me. Von Fugal -- Freedom is Popular http://www.ronpaul2008.com
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
/* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
