it’s too early to get all retrospective-like about university, but i thought it would be a good idea to make a list of what we really learned in university. you know how they say you learn skills for the workforce, or you learn to learn etc, well that’s a lot of bull, we know the truth. here’s the list i got so far:

• i don’t have to do anything for four months because i can cram everything in 2 days.
• if i do badly at something, i can complain and complain and get marked at a lower standard
• i now know how to bullshit a 30 page document. overnight.
• i know all sorts of bad ways of teaching.
• a learning institution should give you lots of useless, pointless, endless labs on stuff you haven’t learned before or will never learn.
• people will pay for bad teaching, and keep paying more and more.

can you think of anything else? let me know in the comments

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: stereotypes, uwaterloo.ca