God, it was like two pictures or something. Ages ago. Please stop going on about that.
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YOU SAID I COULD DO WHAT I WANTED WITH THEM ONCE I BOUGHT THEM! STOP CHANGING THE RULES
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Sell them and invest the cash in something for the kids college fund.
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Kids would get more from a hot tub than they would any kind of education.
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I literally don’t use anything other than Maths, English and common sense from years of using e-commerce back ends. (Probably why it took me 6 months to get a job I’m under qualified for I think)
Uni was an expensive waste of time in terms of academia - for me personally.
Anyway Hot-Tub
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I did 2 years of uni and failed without a degree.
An expensive waste of time.
All you need is a chance at a good company to establish some experience and you’ll be alright.
Unless you need your degree for something specific like teaching or medicine or whatever.
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It’s good for drugs and shagging at university though so there is that.
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On mobile so won’t expand too much, but there are some less tangible elements of having attended university that I personally feel are quite important to me and for which I believe are ever more relevant today in our world of armchair expert-ism.
What I mean is, when I first went to uni for my first degree I thought I was hot shit at maths, physics, etc (what I studied for my first degree) at school. Went to uni and within a few weeks realised a) holy shit it was way harder than school, and b) I actually learned how to devise, interpret, extrapolate and assess information in a way that was just so radically different to how it was taught at school. You sort of get taught to teach/learn yourself in a weird roundabout way.
In essence, the more I was being taught, the more I realised I hardly knew anything to begin with. I feel that in today’s world of headline perusing, article skimming and with our ever worsening attention spans, the incremental development of learning of a subject in detail led by actual experts is invaluable for critical thinking of the wider world around us. Perhaps this isn’t the best illustration of this, but I’ve learned how to detect and handle people chatting breeze about things they know nothing about - especially noticeable with politicians and terrible journalists. That’s not to say we can’t have opinions about things we didn’t study at university, but you know what I mean…
The same thing happened again to me in fact; I went back to study a second degree, and all the shit I thought I knew about from watching the news, reading the FT, The Economist, etc. (I’m now studying mathematical economics) just feels like meaningless twaddle compared with what I’m leaning at university.
I do agree that for many, at least when it comes to their careers, that their degree was objectively irrelevant or unnecessary, but there are skills - both social and academic - which one attains at university that I feel really do carry through to life which one can incorporate into the wider world.
That, plus the longer you’re at university, the more you can postpone becoming an actual working adult!
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Did 6 years at uni, 2 failed degrees because I dedicated more time
To running the students union.
I watched national lampoons Van Weilder after I left and it was pretty much what i did but he got the degree.
It also got me into the film and tv Industry which Is what I wanted to do from a young age .
Wouldn’t change any aspect of it if I did it again.
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Scraped through uni with a pass as I was skating the whole time. Knew that if I managed to get a job it would be fine as I was a hard worker.
Got a job, worked hard, everything turned out ok.
Learned more in first 2 months of work experience than 3 years of uni, unfortunately.
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Pretty much exactly the same for me, I’d continued the attitude I had in school of if I passed I was ok but didn’t really realise it was more a case of getting out what you put into it. Corrected that with my masters though I’d say and got so much more out of it at a uni that was better suited to me really, not that I had the a level grades to get into that place when I was applying for undergrad courses.
Never went to uni (failed a few years of various college courses in lieu of getting a job) but doing a masters now, and it feels a bit pointless. Gets in the way of actually doing the stuff they’re teaching. And it’s boring.
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Are you doing a master’s without an undergrad? I’ve been looking into doing that… How did that work when applying?
Yeah, fuck four years of undergrad. I just applied really hard I suppose.
Fucked my AS levels, my school said there was no point coming back to do my A2s because I’d most likely fail. So started my application for the army. Then school said I could come back and I did worse, so no chance of uni. Through the army I got a NVQ level 3, advanced apprenticeship and some other bits and pieces. I wanted to be a mechanic but because I done alright in my GCSEs they pushed me down the route of electronics technician. I did that for 6 years and got my current job when I left. I really landed on my feet with it. Said I was happy to start at the bottom and work my way up which is what I’m doing.
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Somehow blagged a 2:1 skating a lot. The stress in 3rd year deffo fucking with my mental health / spending a lot of money on weed / then having no money.
I used to think one of the supposed benefits of Uni was to develop socially but actually you spend all your time with people just like you for three solid years. It just makes going into the average company worse cos you’re suddenly surrounded with people from 20-65. Id defo do an apprentice degree where you work and learn if I was 18 again now.
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Same, it takes a while to settle into a company after being around drunk idiots for 3 years.
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i dropped out after 2 years - too busy getting busy. Now got a job in a big nasty corporate at the same level as lots of girly swots, including oxbridge types. not once has not having degree held me back.
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If companies got better at training and developing people they could save everyone a lot of money and time and just take on 18 year olds.
All the free time was amazing but being skint all the time wore thin pretty quick.
