I have an exam in four hours. Do I want to write it? Not particularly. Is it because I’ll do horribly? Hell no. I just feel like I waste at least a month or two of my life every year preparing for exams. They won’t benefit me at all in this ‘real-world’ they like to talk about all the time. I don’t envision a work world with my employer putting me into a hall with a hundred other people and telling me that I have to develop a product or something in three hours or else they’ll fire me/reduce my salary. That’s right. Projects and assignments, those are alright… I’m down. They’re practical. I don’t learn shit from cramming all of this knowledge in at the last second just to regurgitate it moments later. And a few hours after that, I’ll end up in a bar, working on brainwashing myself and making room inside my head for more temporary information. It’s not that I’m setting about changing the system, but it seems like the only reason for keeping the old one around is to separate the people who actually do work from the people who drift by on the shoulders of others. They’re going to exist regardless. The administration preaches about modern technology and innovative solutions, yet still clings to old world ideas that ‘work’ because, well because they’ve worked in the past. Go team.
There are other things I’d rather be doing.