What are YOU doing to make Saidit a Better Place?

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[–]cloudrabbit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

switch the direction of my own studies to more engineering

Are you an engineering major? If not, wonder how one studies it outside of university?

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No. I'm in math, but i got no major but a diploma. We got part time studies at some universities, that is why i will move soon. And "pure" math is only done at universities in my country as far as i know. And btw. i believe anyone can study anything, once he / she finds out which books are used at the university for teaching. Asking people there can save you a lot of money, if you know a good university library to thoroughly study by the book. This is how some famous people studied completely alone, before they fucked up our university teaching system (basically they turned it into a school, which is NOT the same) with the bologna reforms. Fuck USA for this one. It killed a lot of natural creativity in young people trying to change the world, because studying in this time means a full schedule so you got almost no time to actually reflect on what you are studying if you want to keep a social life and sleep regularly. Its a total clusterfuck, pressing students into learning stuff they never wanted or will need again.

Real knowledge and progress can only be achieved by freeing minds not by enslaving them. University literally means "universal" .

I am a generalist and i will stay a generalist and i know why. Soon i won't need to read their fucked up "specialist" job descriptions anymore, because i will decide, which people we hire. And we're searching for good and trustworthy humans and not for obstinate "specialists" that cannot think out of their own box the university system put them into.

[–]cloudrabbit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fuck USA for this one. It killed a lot of natural creativity in young people trying to change the world, because studying in this time means a full schedule so you got almost no time to actually reflect on what you are studying

That depends. In my uni - which was one of the best in my country - we actually got plenty of free time. Granted I wasn't that social myself, but then it's always a compromise between work and leisure and no system would change that.

Soon i won't need to read their fucked up "specialist" job descriptions anymore, because i will decide, which people we hire

Lol that's familiar. I'm learning programming and when I try to motivate myself with job descriptions I just get more depressed. Don't appreciate the idea of working for a corporation that would get rich off me. And do bad shit. Reddit has lots of employees who were ordered to do shit they did after all...

This is how some famous people studied completely alone, before they fucked up our university teaching system

Yes, but they lived in - before 20th century? There was less to learn back then, isn't it so?

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Yeah well. Now it gets tricky, because i worked in education for a long enough time and can't deny my own character.

I don't like seeing shitty systems at work and nobody directly involved at least trying to change it for the better. Of course shit always rolls downhill. For me people seem to have forgotten or just don't know that there are principles like Kaizen. There are many more solutions to this, because this problem occurs in many hierarchies and people mostly seem to rather fear for their own job than trying to change it for everyone for the better from the inside. This kind of bullying is pure bs and follows from the rising stress levels in all people, imo, which is obselete. But then there are these people trying to get rich and famous on others backs...

The role i'm growing into was given to me freely which makes me a very lucky person, because someone else recognized, who i truly am.

My point on your last point is: There was and will be always many more things to learn, especially when they are not that obvious. Creativity is imo 1 % creativity and 99 % hard work in finding the right ideas / principles you can recombine, to build something astonishing and "fresh" that people will accept.

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University literally means "universal" .

interesting. also catholic means the same thing.

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Thanks. Now i will most def marry my woman, even though she is catholic.