What I "Learned" from College
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Unless you're a prodigy at something or know precisely what you want to do for a career, don't go to a university.
Start at community college... because universities are a cold, mean, very rigged game.
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Engineering is the same rubbish. I've degree in electrical engineering and I also learned oceanography, history of music, chemistry, art, software, philosophy and other crap. It was too difficult to find any job because the employers were searching people with work experience in major. And after working few months I've found, that I understood an information at my job better than from college. Even if you want to learn engineering - search some contractor, who will be agree to show some "how-to" and teach you, the theory might be easily studied from the internet. College will give only paper with no useful knowledges.
Yet another thing they don't tell you is that the primary job of all human resources departments (the departments that do the hiring) is to blatantly discriminate against applicants by way of their demographics -- such as their ethnic race, age, gender, and sexuality -- and also their physical appearance -- whether they're tall and skinny and attractive or short, squat, and unattractive -- and then lie right through their fucking teeth about it whilst printing that they're an "Equal Opportunity" blah blah blah at the bottom, to cover their asses in the required legalese (which doesn't even matter because lawyers are all basically pro-establishment Nazis who won't take discrimination cases anyways). And so, since your handle says Dmitry, I'm definitely betting that they're not calling you in because the Bush family and their Germanist network has had all Americans soundly trained to unconditionally hate anything Russian (Americans are essentially Germans -- and, being German, they also possess the longstanding German tradition of looking down their noses at the Russian people as being Slavic and thus not even human), and so if your name really is Russian, I would definitely say that's at least part of why they'd avoid you. I'm not saying it's the only reason, but I'd definitely say it's almost certainly one of them.
Btw, I have an engineering degree, and can't still get a job after two years. All the employers are looking for is experience.
I don't consider employers employers anymore, I consider them shallow bimbos and, quite frankly, Nazis. All they care about is image and superficial demographics which they know they will then train to do the necessary work. And what they are devoutly discriminating against is anything that isn't youth and femininity and, in the case of engineering, a strictly Northern European or South Asian name. I think the claims about needing experience is just a legitimizing cover.
I don't understand the mentality of these collages and the system in general. It's like professional robbers going of after broke people. They're not gonna get anything out of it in the end.
Maybe they don't need to get anything out of it. Maybe they're subsidized so well via a money system whose very nature is completely by fiat that there's never a shortage of money to keep them well afloat. Maybe the point actually is to destroy certain lives via a deliberate honeypot system that promises the only chance at a good future.
truth af
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i love learning but Not the way that gollege teaches you cshort courses are realy good but college is all pressure of exams long essays that takes a lot of time to search related to the topic that the bloody teacher gave you
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College became a "scam" the moment its champions began to view it as, and even try to transform it to a one-size-fits-all solution for people to pursue and acquire a better life. I finally dropped-out after "banging my head against the wall" for 10 years trying to get a BS in Mechanical Engineering. My current job in electronic drafting is almost as lucrative and stable, and only required an 8-month training course--for a job that I could actually perform and was in high demand at the time. College is truly wonderful--for those for whom it is a good fit. But many colleges and their champions (including both my parents), whether they realize it or not, appeal to the PRIDE of the individual who may not even be ready for college but doesn't want to suffer the humiliation of being left behind in a low paying job/career. That is the TRAP I hope young people today avoid, as it is the one that ended up costing me at least 12 prime years of my own life, trying to do something I couldn't do nor needed to do at the time.
I noticed you have many interests: you're interested in Natural Science (Chemistry), Psychology, Visual Art and you got a computer certificate and taught computer classes. But you told me you were an illustrator by nature. How do you have time for your main passion? Do you do it on the side? Because that's what I just plan to do with my passion for music - do it on side, probably make some money by posting online, while having a stable, realistic career like Engineering or Scientist or IT. However, I'm being hindered posting my music online because of fear of my music getting stolen (copyright infringement). I can do writing, but my narcissistic brother already occupies that. Because let's face it, artists - whether art, music, or theater - don't have even half a chance of doing their passions for a living (unless you come from a rich background), because this economy is all about needs/necessity, and arts are not needs. The odds are extremely against artists. The cliches of "poor, starving artist", or "the artist that died poor" are not myths.
@Inthelight I can't argue with any of what you said, except to also add that it's incredible how often you find that people in the entertainment business and the arts do come from families of high means and knowledge-enriched hyperstability. It's also astounding how often they change their names so as to conceal that fact (which, of course, they also claim they did so as to not receive favoritism -- as if it wouldn't be discovered in no time that they're the son or daughter of a prominent casting director or hieress).
@Inthelight I think music is nice, but you can't build a house by playing the guitar. You can't fix a car by tooting a flute. Proponents of music tend to be histrionics about the overimportance of music to life. Beyond that, maybe your family wasn't conspiring against you, although maybe they were callous and/or malicious. I will say in their possible defense, also, that poverty and primitivism are cultures all their own, where lashing out in all manner of ways is just a way of life you're taught by rote and don't think about, and it becomes part of who you are and your mindset. You probably have to be broken of it, just like one breaks a horse. That's how I see it.
My problem is that I grew up cut off from nearly everything a red-blooded human being needs to feel whole for life, which I can probably never now be. So the best I grew up being able to do, was/is to comprehend things in order to have a sense of deep connection to this world, but it's still no use -- there is no substitute for true belonging, for being born the right ethnicity in the right place, in the right culture, so that you just blithely and mindlessly fit in and rarely experience strangeness. It's definitely better to be than to know. Not being able to be is the very worst itch you can somehow never scratch. Anyhow, yes, there are starving artists, but most likely the ones who are especially starving are the ones with nothing to say that needs to be heard, and who have no interest in giving the world what it needs. Probably their artistry is a desperate sham, a neurotic grasping at straws when they really don't have the necessary "Boys from Brazil" that is required for them to need to be the very best at their art.
I have to mention it is too late, even community colleges are making you do those research and those terror-fear based culture issues and subjects. They're even doing this to collect student data and trying to understand how you think and pushing agendas. It's disgusting. Psychology in general is merely just social engineering in disguise. Anything not considered "normal" in accordance to psychology and society is now considered as "mentally ill" or you have a disorder. What happened to eccentric, quirky, or weird? Everyone has traits and characteristics that match many of those psychiatric labels, but now anyone who are not like the social prototype is considered "ill".
That's true of course. Have a look at this: kzsection.info/green/bejne/3pqVbqKEY3qnnqs.html and this: kzsection.info/green/bejne/tHanr4NoiquHl4k.html
+JosephAccount2 Yes, Drapetomania - slaves who wanted to escape from masters - was considered a mental disorder. Very scientific. Of course, it's now considered pseudo science. But this so called "science" creates and disproves knowledge based on politics.
Now that I've had the chance to study the issue more to my satisfaction, I find that the problem with our college industry is Germanism -- the mentality that began in Germany, in their college industry, and which they then brought over here to America and re-formed our entire system of college education along. It's a military mentality of turning the people into obedient, uptight and sado-conformist soldiers who despise all true naturality and nonconformity for any reason. Read the books "ProfScam" and "The Leipzig Connection" to learn more about it.
I am thinking about majoring in History, and will be debt free and its something I am good at, is it a good major.
@RickyBubblesJulien I don't know if its true but it makes sense what good does a degree do when you don't have any experience.
I was just always bad at I and felt like it was always a choir, its just boring to me. I first thought about going to college with a major in fine arts (So glad I got out of that) but my view point right now to just get as many internships regardless of m major so I can get a decent job, I have been hearing more and more that a college degree is worth nothing without any real life experience.
@***** the problem is I don't know really what to major in exactly because I'm not good at math. And I know that most stem degrees are the most practical but I know if I was to go into a stem degree I would flunk out. so I just don't know what to do anymore.
KeybladeVirus If you're good at it and are passionate about it, then go for it. Just make sure to also research the major's job market. You need to combine both passion and business.
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Take a look at the 7 part youtube video called "Marty Nemko: America's Most Overrated Product: Higher Education". This footage is truly one-of-a-kind and exposes a lot of what colleges don't tell anyone. Marty Nemko is a very reputable speaker and I think every prospective college kid should take a look at it.
The LogicJunkie......ala "Logan's Run" (70's movie). What enables the Higher Education scammers is the American public. They've been culturally trained to celebrate and worship business criminals. You can see it in how they responded to the movie "Wall Street" back in the 1980's. Heck, rather than being revolted by the characters, most people dreamed of becoming a Gordon Gecko or Bud Fox. You've got most of the American public wanting to throw the proverbial book at ignorant 17 year olds, programmed since birth with the "value of a college education" nonsense, while suggesting nothing be done to the professional college con-artists. The public wants fraudulent loans to mostly unemployed, uncredit-worthy minors/early twenty-somethings to be enforced, while requiring nothing from the seasoned professional college administrators. The colleges can make just about any false claim they want (including fraudulently manipulated statistics) to lure students into these loans, with minimal or no fear of punishment. Check out the "Aaron Clarey" channel on KZsection to see how the general public feels about permanently indebted university students...and the public's love affair with the aforementioned "Wall Street" characters.
@***** I downloaded a long multi-part Marty Nemko lecture but I only started watching the first part -- I have to get back and watch the rest of it.
@Inthelight The problem for you is that you can't both talk about the PNW and live there, because the people there are cultist fanatics about the infallibility of the PNW -- once your video comes up, they willl all start furiourly communicating back and forth over the internet to find out who you precisely are and then start the most underhanded and deadly personal attacks upon you, botn in cyberspace and in real life. And I think you know this is true about them. You would have discuss topics other than the sacred PNW to avoid their hashashin wrath.
TheLogicJunkie There's no shortage of topics to talk about in this crazy life. I'd like to do what you do, but I fear for my privacy.
I think I will make more videos someday soon. I have the equipment to do it.
I suspect that general education courses are there to force students to be "invested in the pot" meaning that once they complete the gen eds which is fairly simple to do...they have already invested themselves into the rigged college conspiracy system that college is. Now after they have invested the 2 years and completed the gen ed courses, they feel obligated to study something forcing the student to complete a degree. Psychologists call this concept the"escalation of commitment". I mean come on...as if 12 years of education from K - 12 is not enough to become "well rounded". Give me a break! Of course you could probably form a counter argument to my claim...but that is the nature of college....riddled with so many conflicts of interest and various problems where no one can truly win an argument.
TheLogicJunkie....In the West, college is just an instrument in the industrial/post-industrial social engineering framework. The modern West was essentially designed by folks (social theorists/psychologists/etc.) with a "Nazi" mindset. Heck, the U.S. imported a lot of Nazis into the US after WWII and put them in the universities.
Speaking for myself, I grew up (if you can call it that) under an enormous amount of not only ignorance, but outside sabotage of my father's career by the people he worked with as an air traffic controller in the FAA, so by the time I got to college I was so cognitively and developmentally stunted my top priority was to somehow untangle and develop myself as a human being first, and all I could think of to do was to take a lot of psychology classes alongside the science classes I aspired to. But because my head was such a jumble back in grade school, I'd never properly learned science in particular, and so I never got the deep conceptual remediation I needed to start properly learning science, and so I ended up falling farther and farther behind. This is how I think college is actually deliberately designed to overwhelm and even drown those who can't help but be behind -- whom they regard as "the lazy", "the undeserving". Personally, I despise college -- the entire industry operates on a total Nazi mentality. As far as I'm concerned, collleges should be required by law to hang swastika banners everywhere, so as to warn people what they're really all about inside those walls.
Its not just big state schools its the small schools as well, I went to small liberal arts college, it was total waste of time, I graduated in 2004 and still can't find a descent job, by degree is completely worthless, most colleges claim they have strict admission standards but most don't, usually if you can show some way to float the bill, they will let you in, I would say about 85% of the students who in are in college right now really got no business being there, also it really isn't that hard to graduate college anymore, most colleges want to show they have high graduation rates, to often students who will get passed who really shouldn't have been passed, (I am including myself in this btw)
Good point, but I guarantee you they'll probably try to start hiring all these skinny metrosexual pseduo-eunuchs to start asking infuriating questions like that. Because that's what feminism is really all about: a ruling class of passive-aggressive sissies that it's illegal to choke to death with your bare, working-class hands.
@Patrick 22 "In five years I see myself sitting on a large marble throne overlooking the ocean. I am one of the last remaining human beings on the planet except for the harem of Anna Kournikova lookalikes who live with me in my castle. ...Next question?"
I am thinking about getting into pest control or lock smith work, it pays descent, and you can move up, a little off the subject who hell comes up interview questions when you apply for job, usually they are so stupid and have nothing to do with the job your applying for, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" Shit I don't know working hopefully,
And the even better part comes when you graduate and your name is discernibly black, Spanish, or Mediterranean-sounding. Because the instant the crypto-Nazi race fanatics in human resources see your name on the top of your resume, into the trash it goes unless you're applying for the absolute lowest jobs in the organization, like cleaning toilets or landscaping, and then you get the generic "Thaks but no thanks" form letters in record time.
At one job INTERVIEW the interviewer mispronounced an established business name she should have long had familiarity with. My red flag went up. Of course, my application and resume contained personal info. Curiously, she tried to interest me in of all things a real estate venture. Lastly, after later going online, the b*tch had BLOWN up my email inbox with irrelevant junk before I even reached home. Btw NO JOB!
Yeah, I'm not very surprised -- most of the "life" in our "bustling" economy is mostly the wriggling of maggots feeding on the decomposing corpse of real American infrastructure. America is now just a country auto-cannibalistically devouring itself, and that process of doom and death is even more doomedly called "GDP".
As I got older, I had some friendship with some of the professors. They gave me no trouble. I learned not to burden them if you're not making it. I didn't go back after my bachelors degree. That was all that I wanted to gamble on higher education. I began to see through it. Thank God.
I'm sorry to hear about all that. You're not the first Asian male who's been having an utterly miserable life in America. Everything here now seems to be catered to specifically the Billy Bush types of the world.
@InTheLight Well, not all of it, but the humanities, yes. And biology is extremely Nazi and racist, I've found. I especially don't like the people in biological fields.
TheLogicJunkie It's sickening how society advertises school as a virtuously academic, meritocratic institution, when really it is pure 100% politics.
Uhck -- utterly miserable and sickening enough to avoid forever.
I could use some advice... I majored in animation. I know. And two year after graduation still no job. Lot of debt. I need to change my path or something.
If you're still living in that area and you still want to work in animation, your top priority needs to be physically getting the hell out of there and relocating to the Los Angeles area, where the animation industry physically IS.
@Sara Chen What kind of animation work do you honestly think you're going to get living in Maryland of all places?? You do know that all the major animation studios are in Los Angeles and there's Blue Sky in NYC, right? Do you even have a portfolio posted online? Have you contacted any of the animation studios to show them your work? First of all, if you're going to study animation, you study at CalArts or the Ringling School or in Japan or something -- you don't waste your time in Maryland, for god's sake. But since you already have, you've at least got to have someone critique your abilities by way of actual sample work, and tell you if you wasted your time in the first place even studying animation at all. Because I've got news for you: the animation field, like most technical fields, is about actually having the talent, bottom line. It's not something you can really be taught if you don't have the underlying natural ability -- I DON'T THINK, mind you. So I'm saying this because the college industry preys on people who think they can just be trained for anything, but there's no turning someone into an animator who didn't grow up drawing like a madwoman, and very, very well.
+TheLogicJunkie thank you for the reply. I live in Maryland and went to mica (Maryland institute college of art).
Where are you physically living? If you're not living physically near any major animation studios, you've wasted your last two years. Also, if you have been living in LA or NY and not getting jobs, you should be at least be trying to work or even volunteer as an in-betweener. Finally, where did you go to school for animation? CalArts?
What about accounting?
I am saying that the natural sciences themselves have their roots in the accounting field. Why? How? Because at the core of the natural sciences are the various laws of conservation of this and that -- the conservation of energy, the conservation of momentum, etc. and so on. And what are these laws of conservation but applied laws of accounting, whereby you cannot have things just pop into existence from nowhere -- they have to come from somewhere else, where their equal amount disappears. And this very idea comes originally from something called "double-entry" bookkeeping in the field of accounting. And did you know that the original introduction of accounting to the Western world, as well as the knowledge of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system that we use today, as well as our knowledge of the procedures for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, geometry and even trigonometry, all come from one single book published in the year 1500 by an Italian academic named Luca Pacioli, in his massive, world-changing book titled "Summa de arithmetica, geometria. Proportioni et proportionalita": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli
@InTheLight I'm saying that, if nothing else, God/Nature is or employs some ultimate accountant that instantaneously balances all the books on what is allowable and what isn't. I say this as a matter of metaphor given all the various laws of conservation that exist in physics, which underlies and determines all the natural sciences. That's what I mean.
+TheLogicJunkie Can you please elaborate your comparison of accounting and natural science/technology fields? Are you talking about the aspects of record-keeping/journaling and statistics?
You live to work?
@***** Yes, but the problem comes if and when actual degrees or certifications are required. And oftentimes you're not allowed to get the certification if you don't have the degre, so you have to make sure the game isn't rigged like that.
I have been through community college, top 50 undergrad and medical school. The best education I ever received was at a community college. Medical School was absolute garbage for the preclinical years. Undergrad had its good and bad professors (most), but you are just a number and matter to nobody.
I recommend Michael Crichton's autobiography "Travels" to anyone who wants to know what the whole pre-med, med school track is like. He nails it completely.
Some pretty good analysis right here. Well worth watching this video, kids.
Glad you like it.
Engineer degrees tend to be weak on literature, writing and reading. Many have not read very many novels, or classic literature. Their idea of a book for engineers is a "how to" or political preaching. I find an arrogance in that field too with a "have an answer to everything" attitude.
@Pooh Bear When engineers read fiction, they tend to read the more mean-spirited and ego-narcissistic Nietzshean stuff like Ayn Rand or Orson Scott Card. Or they might read holier-than-thou religious narcissistic stuff like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or ancient race narcissism stuff like Tolkien. But engineers would never read anything like slacker fiction, that's for sure.
It's true that engineering majors don't read novels but you are incorrect about the little reading and writing. We don't read novels but we have to read our text books to learn the material since the teachers aren't that great. Those text books can be very difficult to read as well with complex terminology. Also, we don't have to write essays but we do have lab reports. I personally don't see the issue with the lack of novels or english essays. We learned how to read and write for 13+ years before getting to college, so now we are using the knowledge we learned and applying it to something practical.
+Daniel Leslie You bring up a topic that I've been speculating for quite some time now. I suspect that the education system deliberately forces and emphasizes the combination of reading/writing and math all throughout grade and high school and admissions test, not to "make you smarter", but to trick people into choosing the more difficult subject (math), because since it's more difficult and esoteric, it has to be more significant. I really suspect there is psychological manipulation going on in the education system.
I think the reason for the phenomenon of "engineers with poor writing and writers with bad math skills" is because of the concept of specialization (one-dimensional life), which originates from Adam Smith's "pin factory" concept. This specialization concept is propagated in schools, media, and families (which I'll go over in another one of LJ's videos).
I agree with you on this. Some majors are so intuitive and even automatic as a by-product of just doing other, more critical, things that you'd just pick up the skill by default. And besides, with fields such as English, you really should have already learned how to write sentences and ideas in English before you got to college. It's a waste of valuable time to even have such a ridiculous major.
I read in one of my intro statistics books that SAT scores alone are a weak predictor for college GPA. Even SAT scores combined with college GPA is not a strong predictor of college GPA. For all the statistics people out there this would be called a "multiple regression analysis". It is a statistical technique used to try and explain the variation in college GPA. It is the best that colleges can do though when trying to decide who to admit. I believe what matters most is just willingness to work hard and staying motivated by your interests, which I suppose many people lack. I think its really hard to measure intrinsic qualities of a person just by SAT and High School GPA, which explains why they are weak predictors for success in college.
* "a," not "an".
People change over time. How you perform at one time....won't easily or precisely predict how you will perform at another, especially when the performances are separated by a considerable period of time. I'm not really an proponent of the value of testing, especially those claiming to predict future "success" in life. I think, for the most part, they merely serve to easily create permanent class structures: a way for the elites to keep everyone in their permanent "place" and prevent widespread competition.
No, i don't think that's it. I think a lot of people get into HR work because they are probably known to be superficialist crypto-Nazis and because of that, HR is the best place for them, as far as the more racist, sexist, and that sort of mentality dictates.
I'm not a fan of the HR industry. Every HR department and company should be required by law to fly the eagle emblem of Nazi Germany over their entry door, as truth in advertising.
Lol, sorority Hiter maidens, that was pretty funny. I always wondered what attracted people to study HR and pursue a career in HR. I think I am afraid to even know what goes through those peoples minds, especially the ones that decided to become HR "professionals" when they started college, as opposed to doing it because they screwed up somewhere else along the line and could not find any other job.
yea ppl tend to look down on community college because anyone can get in. From what i have seen, in high school senior year is a game of who gets into the better college. All these kids are saying "got accepted to..." and have all theses universities lined up. Your right on how teachers and parents prepare us from the start to go right off at a university. In high school from the start they say be involved and how it looks good on college applications.
I agree. Ultimately it's just a hollow status symbol.
also, at least where i'm from its almost perceived as a status symbol, it "looks better" to tell ppl your at this good college than a community college
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What do you think about accounting?
@John Doe From this last response of yours, I can see I didn't make myself clear -- my bad. What I'm specifically saying is this: *Read some easy-to-understand websites and an extremely easy-to-understand book or two BEFORE you even take your first accounting course of any kind.* In fact, *you might even want to take a semester or two OFF of college just so you can work a bit and study these things on your own BEFORE you go back to school and take any accounting courses.* THAT is what I mean to say.
+TheLogicJunkie I'm familiar with those terms, I didn't learn them from my high school history teacher though what a surprise.. (Not) I haven't taken any accounting classes yet, because I was pushed to declare a major my first semester and didn't want to, so I just decided to knock out some gen Ed courses first. I will make sure that I take the most basic accounting course that they have and do my research on those three topics you listed. Anything else I should keep in mind?
+John Doe If you haven't taken any accounting courses yet, approach it with great caution, because they throw it all at you at once in the intro courses. My best advice is to always start with the extra-baby-level accounting course BEFORE even the so-called "intro" courses in college. In the case of accounting, that typically means a course called "Accounting for Non-Majors" which should have a number even lower than the intro course. Take that course first, and before taking even that course, do independent reading on your own to understand three critical things about all accounting: 1) The double-entry system 2) The ALOE equation 3) The accounting cycle This is the holy trinity of the accounting field. And I personally say that you need to understand all three backwards and forwards BEFORE you even take ANY college-level courses. Because even though accounting is a great field, all of college is still a haughty death camp designed to cultivate the illusion of the "natural-born ubermenschen" successful types versus the "imposter untermenschen" natural-born loser types. And if you don't recognize those two terms I just used, they're Hitler terms from Nazi Germany which capture the college cultural mindset perfectly.
+John Doe Thank you -- I'm glad they've helped you.
+TheLogicJunkie Sounds great after extensive research I picked accounting, and I think it will be worth it.
Finally a real philosopher. So sick of these pseudo-philosopher assholes who won't touch anything controversial. Yeah colleges are corrupt as hell. Unfortunately most people enjoy being dominated and told what to do and will defend their perverse administrative policy over something that would benefit them.
@Inthelight Good eye -- I have to turn down the light and mess with the contrast and gain. I also run F.lux to change the color tone of the entire screen.
@Inthelight Yeah, there probably is somewhere, but I can't read Kindle or online documents because of a cornea condition I've developed -- I had to buy the pamphlet on Amazon so I could read and highlight.
@TheLogicJunkie Is there a free copy of the manifesto online? Can you give me the google keyword, or just post the link.
No worries about your not having read the Manifesto -- I myself only read it a few months ago. But it's so short and easy to read that it's well worth your taking a few days to slog through it. Because it really is such a pressing relevance in our world.
From what I read, I think he favors himself and his own elite clique, and the poor are just a means to rearranging the power structure so as to put him and his kind on top instead of the usual landowners, religious heads, and industrialists.
A math degree is useful? Ha ha ha haaa. I graduated in Dec. 2012 with a math degree and it took me 18 months to find a fast-food job.
A general/pure Math degree is worthless, unless you are trying to teach. Many school districts are desperate for Math teachers, so they'll readily hire someone with a Math degree. However, many states are now requiring "Education" degrees before you can teach.
@***** Yes, I tried taking some of those education classes back in college, and my god were they mind-numbingly tedious and insubstantial.
I already know Python and Java. Most companies only want people with computer science or software engineering degrees.
+David Suspended what are your interests, in terms of math... Can you code, if you haven't tried download a linux distribution (i recommend Fedora Core) and play around with bash, then move onto python scripts... 6-12 months should give you enough technical skill to move into an entry level position... and those entry level positions tend to start at 40k
+David Suspended Did you apply for an internship or co-op while you were in college? And have you searched entry level analyst jobs on job boards/search engines?
hahaha Garbage ahahha
I wish they would put a notice on all college applications saying, "College is a place to test your knowledge, not a place to learn", so students who take pride in being self-taught (like myself) don't end up going to college majoring in something they are not passionate about just for utility's sake and because we don't want to take courses that teach what we already know.
@InTheLight You make very powerful points here, of course, and while I certainly agree that doing what you love will be easier and you'll be more effortlessly productive in it, I also know that all of that will only torture you if no one but you values it in terms of money. In fact, once you start getting that sort of disregard for awhile, it isn't long before you yourself start disliking the very thing you once were so passionate about, as a kind of life trap. On the other hand, you also have a point that analogies only go so far in terms of understanding different fields -- yet you've got to use what you can, and more analogies are applicable than most people realize. For example, I once learned and taught IP address subnetting using a car odometer metaphor that worked amazingly well, yet strictly on the surface of things cars and computers are apples and oranges. Finally, I believe very much that portfolios are the best way to demonstrate your skill as a stranger approaching some new field. On the other hand, the world is full of goose-stepping pedants who want there to be only one way into a field, and not coincidentally that way is the particular way they themselves got in -- surprise, surprise, surprise. So like most things in life, you have to know or figure this out quickly and realize it's just another tactic for survival and supremacy. Ultimately, if you're not into running the Mickey Mouse gauntlet of much formal education and you've got the portfolio to prove your skill, you're going to have to play the numbers game and just keep shopping around through the vast desert of pedantry until you find an oasis or two where they're more interested in your portfolio -- but be prepared for perhaps no such organization to even eist, as you're wanting a statistical anomaly, no matter how reasonable it would be.
+InTheLight I think that unless there's a direct market for your interests, or some way to segue your interests into something directly marketable, then don't major in it. Major in only what is marketable, and thereby the challenge becomes adapting your learning style to learning the marketable skill, and approach it that way. For example, I am by nature an illustrator. And the way illustrators approach things is with fast, light, rough overview sketches first, and then slowly going back and fleshing things in more deeply and specifically. And so the way that applies to my learning or doing things is to scan out the broad overview of things first, and then going back in and nailing down more and ever more of the specifics. On the other hand, our society always forces precisely the opposite method of doing things upon you. This extremely Germanist military-industrial society wants you to blindly obey procedures and execute them in great volume without having much of any understanding what the hell you're actually doing, or why it's even correct. America is an extremely psychologically sadistic society.
+InTheLight and I also want to add, that I think college creates this "Heads I win, tails you lose" situation against students because college has this negative implication that students are these dependent subordinates who could not have succeeded or learn without the college's help; it makes them feel like slaves or robots. And it further perpetuates and bolsters the undeniable life of domestication. But on the other hand, you can't succeed without pursuing your passions, interests, and strengths. So there's really no win situation for people who like to keep their passions personal, specifically like art and music. I think those fields are better off for self-teaching because they are personal and subjective pursuits, and it shows a person's originality, uniqueness, and independence, and that he/she is not some helpless, dependent drone. What do you think of this dilemma LogicJunkie?
whats the point of books since the creation of the internet?
+SirCylon1337 To earn more money for publishers! Then the publishers can backfeed the administrators who in turn tell the professors "you must make this book mandatory for this class."
Books are physical websites they can't just shut off on you. You own them, you can write in them, they are yours.
NEED TO KNOW | Generation jobless: 'Millennials' struggle with unemployment | PBS In the middle of the video, there is an architecture engineer suffering from the unemployment.
Honestly, I did the biggest soul searching slumming in my parent's house for one year. I was so bored out of my mind just playing games that I had to look for other things to do in life and what I'd be interested in. Eventually, I did stumble on the concept of engineering and I'm relearning Algebra I and II on Khan's academy and doing swimmingly on that. Before the end of this year, I will go after my pre-engineering degree at a community college and later on go onto uni to get chemical engineer. This is leaps and bounds much better than what would've happened to me if I didn't screw up on my FAFSA that day I got shoved out of high school... I would've ended up majoring in culinary arts of all things. So if I ever do end up with children, I'd be more than happy letting them just stir around in the house for a year or two so they can sit back and examine anything everything about life. You never get an inspiration from a 40 hour work week or even dare to rethink your path when you're already set on it.
+Conspicuous Cultist why not a engineer in the army ?
@Crashtian Thanks, that guy is definitely a great speaker, Remedial mathematics isn't exactly the most exciting thing but it's definitely doable. I was about to stop doing it but it got me back on the train. Thanks again.
@Conspicuous Cultist Hello Mr./Ms Cultist. Please don't give up. When you start climbing the math/physics ladder, you'll see many of your peers drop like flies. Dr. Calvin Mackie is a great resource for encouragement. (Look him up on youtube when you can)
@Conspicuous Cultist Well, for what it's worth, I think your guts are properly calibrated.
@TheLogicJunkie Thanks, it's actually nice feeling like I'm doing something right in my life and it'll be nice to see how far someone can go with a gut feeling.
Damn dude, your eyes are all over the place. With that being said, this is a fairly accurate statement of college and the bull shit that it encompasses. I went to college got a bachelors and do not use it at all because I work for myself.
What about going to college for certificates is that worth it?
Depends on how long the certificate is good for, because a lot of certificates expire in a few years. In that case, you're better off getting a degree, which never expires, particularly if it's in something like computer science.
College Pyramid Scheme - College Conspiracy Documentary EXPOSED test
Even Engineering and Computer Science has it's weaknesses and is a *gamble* you can gain the skills without going to the debt//time trap of "College"
I was one of those prodigys you were talking about but I still saw it as a scam and *Had doubt about what I really want to do* [and this is mainly due to the systems innate slavery ] And I'm not just a Prodigy.. I'm really quite a prodigy... Universities and Colleges are predatory and I came up with the same conclusion you said in this video before and after seeing it... " It's a blessing in disguise " to flunk out [even if they never go back to ANY university/college ]
+A bored Mercury Cazimi God And I do believe you're right. There's an old Garth Brooks country song called "Unanswered Prayers" that I'm thinking of right now.
bachelors in nursing is pretty good too.
Yeah, lots of jobs. It's just the job description is unappealing.
You forgot Nursing
I'm at a community college myself, love the idea, love the atmosphere, and the teachers are okay, hate the staff. I'm going to be in 19k in debt for the next academic year coming soon, but at at least it's doable. I plan to start paying during the year I'm in school, so I won't be in so much debt when I take out a next installment for my next degree.
Dude, I feel you. You remind me of my college roommate. He was a straight shooter. I went 27K into debt for a BA and made it back within one year, but I had to work for the government.
@David Williams This is the hurtful realization that middling people come to after graduating and spending a few years in the workforce. College isn't really worth the cost any more, excepting Engineering and some other subjects, for the poor and middle classes.
@TheLogicJunkie 60K could have been a good start up for a business. I realized in college that all my rich roomates had jobs/businesses waiting for them when they graduated with their families. I totally would use the money I spent for college as a start up if I could do it again.
I've got in excess of $60K. How's that grab ya? *LOL*
i agree! The 2 year degree I got from a community college in chemical technology, I was making the SAME amount working in the field as three other people that got degrees in BS in molecular/micro biology and a BS in biochemistry
I'm not surprised. The bottom line always has the real leverage.
Based on my experience at a BIG 10 school, I have to agree, big state schools don't give a s**t about their students, unless they're athletes.
By the way, I plan on opening up a photo business. I'm taking classes for photography and business and have even found a mentor who helps me hone my skills. There are actually schools for photography that cost thousands and promise to get you a job when in reality even if you don't open up a business, you will be hiring yourself out as an independent contractor (you make the jobs yourself, they aren't there waiting for you) and even then most of it is keeping track of your books. Jared Polin, a prominent photographer, spoke to a class in an art school about how most of them wouldn't make it. How many do you think knew that before they signed up? Did they know that it might pay the bills but only if they didn't have that debt? Did they factor in the cost of equipment? (A basic DSLR with a kit lens costs about 500 dollars.) In the time they spent in that school, they could have been improving their craft, finding successful photographers and business owners and learned from them and built a nice portfolio for future clients. With the debt they owe, that will now be impossible. They can't improve their skills or find mentors because they have to work to pay it off. Since more people are taking pictures nowadays, okay won't cut it. You have to be great and have drive, patience and business skills. Your clients are your employers, and you have to build up your base. You have to market and advertise. When they went in, they didn't realize that most of their working life wouldn't be taking pictures. They didn't realize its a hard field to break into or that the first couple years of business are always hard. They just thought they would spend their days taking pictures. I feel sorry for these people, but only because I was almost one of them. All through high school, I shuffled my feet and put off the college search until it was too late. Senior year came, and acceptance letters were being hung on the wall and I felt like such a loser. Everyone kept telling me to go to college, even though they knew what I wanted to do. I compromised and said I'd transfer after two years. Now I only plan on going for another year. (This is my first year.) After that, I'll set up my business plan and find more mentors. I don't expect to live on my own after next year or that success will come quickly. But I do know this is exactly what I want to do and I'm willing to fight tooth and nail for it. It may not be well paying, and you could say I'm stupid for chasing my dream, but in the end its my choice and not the banks on how I will spend my life. And thats a freedom so many don't have today. I'm luckier than most. :)
Another piece of advice I'd give is to spend time researching the estimated value and job prospects of your chosen career. Don't listen to the phony 1 million dollar line, but actually do that work on your own. If you realize that what you want to do isn't viable or won't make much money, if you still really want to do it, go for it, because at least you will be prepared and make wise financial decisions. Otherwise, switch, but don't take out more than you have to. I feel like so many schools don't make their students do the work on what they plan on doing for the rest of your life, but instead make their students research colleges. Its completely backward.
They're cheaper too. Coming out of community college with only ten-thousand dollars in debt, plus all the courses I'm taking are practical for what I want to do. :D
Yep, the debt load makes a huge difference. One of the big problems becomes people who linger in college -- even community college -- for years and years, without even a marketable degree to show for it. And much of that I blame on the so-called academic "advisement" center, which is largely a joke that generally doesn't take any kind of aggressive stance in helping students find themselves in context with a job, much less just tell them, "Look, forget your self-indulgence, you've got to pick a truly useful set of infrastructure skills that will be marketable for that reason, and learn to derive satisfaction from them if you don't already". Instead, what we've got is an academic advisement industry that sits back passively, like a wet noodle Rogerian therapist, and just says, "Mmm hmm... That's nice, dearie", and nods you off to your doom.
not to mention all the bullshit "Gen Ed" classes you must take, all to make more money.
I think Gen. Ed. knowledge is important, but it shouldn't be part of college. There should be schools of general "life" knowledge which are specifically not college.
Psychology is mostly politically correct bullshit. I agree.
All of what really matters in psychology reduces to a small body of critical facts about the human mind. Here are what I regard as two of the most important: 1) The concept of Readiness: The human brain is developing from birth and it can only learn certain things as the relevant brain regions develop. And throughout the rest of life, it is also true that new things cannot certain prerequisite knowledge if they are to be truly understood. 2) Top Brain, Bottom Brain: The brain is divided up into basically a top half and a bottom half, where the top half is responsible for visionary, arbitrarily synthetic thinking, and the botom half is responsible for heedful, analytically objective thinking. Some people are weak in both, some people stronger in one or the other, and some strong in both. And the combination of strength or weakness in these two halves yields our character and personality.
Knowledge you acquire from the talking to people on the Internet and in real life>>>>>>>>>>>>what you learn in college courses. Get your fucking facts straight.
If you go to college make sure you get a degree that will give a 100% chance of a job and not one that will lay you off. Be smart
"100% chance of a job" Needless to say, there is no such thing. You have much to learn about the real world.
Agreed on many points, been there. Small private Universities are much more friendly than large research universities, and some are highly rated and relatively reasonably priced. I have been much happier studying math/compSci at my small university, which grants decent scholarships to most non-wealthy students. It's not perfect (every life situation will have cons), but it works for me.
Just realized my college loans cost more than child support every month. Honestly, I learned more life skills being in an abusive relationship for 6 months than the 5 years I went to uni. Unless someone has someone in their life to concretely teach then what college is about then university going to fuck you over. I’ll recommend trade school or factory work to anyone but college is a debt trap, death camp and a waste of youth in my eyes. (I don’t have kids, I’m just basing that off of what a friend pays in child support every month. It would have been cheaper for me to get knocked up after high school than to go to college.)
Sounded quite reasonable until your comments about psychology...it may be advantageous to stick to what you know or become better informed before you jump on your little soap box!
@TheLogicJunkie It is easiest to understand Americans using animal theory...because the social engineers have successfully divorced us from religion and moral principles. Women, due to their physical weakness and hormones, often have a different survival strategy than that of men. If they are halfway attractive, women fixate on using their physical attractiveness to intimidate others and to attract male providers and protectors. Since this is how their minds work, they project\attribute that mindset to others. Men simply use their physical/mental strength to intimidate others. Life is best understood through predator-prey relationships. Predators are outgoing, socially aggressive and intimidating. Prey is generally introverted, socially shy and easily intimidated. Counter-intuitively, women tend to mostly be predators. Most of them are easily able to intimidate and attract financial support and proxy warriors through their physical attractiveness. They are almost always socially aggressive and extroverted. Unfortunately, because they rarely need to test\develop their mental abilities, most women are mentally stunted. Many have their mental development arrested during their teenage years (the point they begin to reach sexual attractiveness). So, you have these beings with all the human power lust, without the mind to control it or direct it toward something useful.
@saintgauden Yes, currently American society is very anti-male -- as an indication of its over-chivalrous handing-over of nearly all power to females. And thus, our society is now in the merciless, tyrannical grip of those very same female qualities which tend to make them such a menace: their compulsive Nazi obsession with even more petty superficialities such as male height and athletic condition, above all other things. All you do when you focus on gender instead of genderless logic, is switch the power from one idiotic criteria to another, and you get the predictable results. And so now, as a product of embracing feminism, you have an active holocaust going on in America against all males who are less than six feet tall, and who also fail to possess all the vulgarly shallow attributes females gaudily find attractive. A female-run society is just a completely new kind of stupid in control of things than when males run it. So to anyone with half a working brain, it shouldn't be about gender mentalities running society, but yet it is.
@TheLogicJunkie Yeah, today they use passive eugenics (in the form of a cultural bias against certain groups in order to prevent them from acquiring a policy making\influencing role in life), of course. I do believe there are "critical selection" people who mark you for elimination from the pool of candidates. I think it goes beyond just racial discrimination, but also into other biases. Currently, American society is very anti-male, particularly anti-white male of certain categories. I think in dealing with this type of discrimination, it is best to never lose your temper....because this is a way they can legitimately eliminate you from the competition.
I would call it cultural eugenics, which is a much more insidious process than brazenly shooting people in the head or whatever. Much of it centers around "critical selection" people people like academic advisors and human resources personnel who selectively sabotage based on the apparent ethnicity of people's names alone.
Many have been brainwashed into believing in whatever a so-called "expert" tells them. As the logic junkie noted, modern American psychology is nothing more than social engineering.....really it is just thinly veiled eugenics by racists and other groups.
Can you make more videos?
I’m so fucked :(
Why do you say that?
smart isnt it neither is intelligence or education, all valuable but nothing without real wisdom and knowlege of self
@TheLogicJunkie The Tom Baker-ishness (nice Dr. Who reference)/Eric Idle, "it's only a flesh wound," community-orientated villager mindset is probably a result of the common English masses being rendered powerless...over hundreds of years. When a people no longer feel they can become rich and famous by screwing their fellow man, they learn to work together and improve their lowly communities. They also develop friendlier dispositions. What we have in America is the opposite of this "villager" mindset. The commercial elite have encouraged the common masses to believe that anyone can become rich and famous by breaking their fellow Americans (zero-sum game). This gets Americans hyper, gives them a perpetually bad disposition, encourages them to destroy each other, motivates them to consume more frivolous things and bankrupt themselves, and renders them incapable of competing with the true elites/master class.
Well, it's hard to know where the softer and more humane "village" aspect of UK life comes from -- whether that comes from the Celts or Normans or whathaveyou -- but that to me is the indispensable part one absolutely has to have, if one is to retain a certain Tom Baker-ishness and avoid becoming too "master race" German.
@TheLogicJunkie I think the cultural heritage of the British/British Royal Family represents what elite applicants should try to replicate, namely Norman-Anglo-Saxon heritage. That is the Viking-German heritage of England. As a side-note I think the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryans Hitler dreamed of were in the Collective Subconscious of the region. They were the Viking invaders of ancient continental Europe and the British Isles.
@saintgauden Actually, I would say that one of the best investments you can make in your future is to change your name to something as plausibly Northern European as possible, if it isn't already. Because much of what's going on in HR is that they're secretly screening names for job "suitability" by the apparent ethnicity of the applicant's name. And almost nobody talks about this.
@saintgauden your wise, can i get a few sheckles? lol
lol my son has a IQ of 152 and he is only 10 but really wants to study physics and reality but yeah he teaches himself because he loves learning and created his own maths language similar to dos and c++= through minecraft he loves studying old school maths from Egypt and Greece he is allowed to because he loves being homeschooled
What is the alternatives to colleges.
This comment is EXACTLY what I have found, when I have privately taken the time to understand the basic concepts I get exponentially more from the actual courses.
Many people who are most successful experience the same difficulty, but they don't quit, so they adopt a philosophy to their protege's that they should learn that way. Jumping into the deep end of the pool.
Part of that is elitism, selfishness, and survival of the fittest. Many people in such communities prefer to let those who are most serious invest personal time and practice in such fields to succeed. On one hand If you give out degrees like a Mcdojo, it diminishes the value, so difficultly is basically just shear raw content that beginners are left to decipher. But If given the opportunity, I'd help people, since it would raise my profile and hence make me more visible to being employed.
Part of that is elitism, selfishness, and survival of the fittest. Many people in such communities prefer to let those who are most serious invest personal time and practice in such fields to succeed. On one hand If you give out degrees like a Mcdojo, it diminishes the value, so difficultly is basically just shear raw content that beginners are left to decipher. But If given the opportunity, I'd help people, since it would raise my profile and hence make me more visible to being employed.
Please tell me your thoughts on my particular example. In my university, practicum is required, therefore i have to pay university 1000$ basically to register me. I have to find practicum on my own, so anyways i did, now i have to do work which does not relate with my major like at all. What should i do?
this is just another satanic trap, built for people to commit suicide and kill. so you can go to hell open your eyes jesus is the only way and truth! read the holy bible u will find the answers. people dont realize once adam and eve sinned the world became satans filled with demons in the air people cannot see. the only thing i can say is to repent jesus is near!
this is just another satanic trap, built for people to commit suicide and kill. so you can go to hell open your eyes jesus is the only way and truth! read the holy bible u will find the answers. people dont realize once adam and eve sinned the world became satans filled with demons in the air people cannot see. the only thing i can say is to repent jesus is near!
Agree (and im not american), psychology is just a tool for establishment to normalize population, its principal aim is to "pull" extreme behaviures to the average statistics of population behaviure. Psychologist dont cure, fix, or solve real problems, they just normalize people geting round of the fact that most of the social change occurs in the minds of people who dont fit into the center of the population behaviural bell curve.The consequences are absolutely harmful for socialdevelopment.
Agree (and im not american), psychology is just a tool for establishment to normalize population, its principal aim is to "pull" extreme behaviures to the average statistics of population behaviure. Psychologist dont cure, fix, or solve real problems, they just normalize people geting round of the fact that most of the social change occurs in the minds of people who dont fit into the center of the population behaviural bell curve.The consequences are absolutely harmful for socialdevelopment.
ok so an international student from India doing International baccalaureate with chem, phy and math Higher level. I want to go a us univ for undergrad in chemical engineering. But because it is so fucking priced I might have to take a loan. And i hear a lot about the student debt crisis. But really is it the engineers who struggle or stupid liberal arts. Oh and what is ur opinion on chemical engineering and Nanotechnology.
ok so an international student from India doing International baccalaureate with chem, phy and math Higher level. I want to go a us univ for undergrad in chemical engineering. But because it is so fucking price I might have to take a loan. And i hear a lot about the student debt crisis. But really is it the engineers who struggle or stupid liberal arts. Oh and what is ur opinion on chemical engineering and Nanotechnology.
I agree 100%. I noticed on my own that the whole system was designed to profit from students. In fact, advisers are regular sales people that maximized the $ amount with all students forcing you to take classes that you really don't need. I graduated with a Double Major in Finance and Accounting and one of the classes I took was Botanic. Does not make any sense!!!
I live around the Northern VA/DC area and most of the professional folks here are all upper middle class WASPS. The men are mostly snotty, effete types who treat their snow white lady friends like the Queen of England. The professional women are almost always snowy white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed snots who believe they are the Queen of England and are somehow superior to everyone else because of their va-jay-jays. Mix in a heavy dose of social Darwinist rhetoric and that's our prof. world.
Unfortunately, you must have a degree to enter almost any profession in the U.S. So, get accustomed to the mindless readings from textbook powerpoints that you will inevitably encounter. If you can read and have good reading comprehension, modern American university work is largely a time and money waster. If you want a profession here, though, you have no choice but to endure it.
Information Systems is largely a B.S. field...lot of unnecessary schematics for how information flows in an organization. A lot of it is just overly complicated ways of understanding commonsensical type things. After obtaining three degrees, I now believe that students should endeavor to get out of the system ASAP, as is more concerned with social programming than it is with giving you useful knowledge. Most of the stuff you get in university is a waste of time and money.
Well, next year I graduate. And I wanted to go to a UNI and finish for a bachelors and then go for a Masters of CS since, two UNIs right now after offering cheap tuition and online programs. Or, would it be better just to leave that aside and go for work experience and forget about college? P.S. I would have gone for the CS or, CE in the beginning, but my math was, and still is very bad. P.S.S. Or, could I do both, just take an all online program-based class set for the bachlors while working?
I read a criticism of information science degrees that companies don't know what they really consist of, and that it makes more sense to get a computer science or computer engineering degree, alongside network administration certification from Cisco or something like that. I agree with that, but I also know that a lot of guys just start doing computer help desk work right out of high school, and then ascend to much better jobs that way. I prefer that second way, as it avoids college.
What is your opinion on Information Systems Technology degrees?
Will do. I appreciate the advice!
If she's that obnoxious, it probably wouldn't make a difference.
My obnoxious older sister is majoring in psychology. I wonder what her reaction would be if she saw this video... :O
your amazing.
I hate to say this, but a major way to eliminate a LOT of discrimination in America is just to legally change your name to something more northern European-sounding, as racism is more alive and effective nowadays than ever. You wouldn't believe how many human resources and EEO departments employ an active plan of reserving certain job types for people with only certain name ethnicities, and barring all others. They won't even call you in for an interview without the right name.
Also the earlier you start for the most part the better. It's harder to find work when you get older if you're established as an actor. Also I'm Asian, and I scour the actor audition role sites and they are looking for: White/ Caucasian male straight down the list with the occasion African American and Hispanic Male... No Asian... WTF. But gotta keep trying and gotta keep auditioning, It's easy to differentiate yourself so you're not stuck playing the same stereotypical roles Asians always play.
Right. I'm in my second year in community college going into my third (thanks to budget cuts its hard to get some important classes). I've taken several acting classes and was in a school production. People do like my work, I have a long way to go but at least I improve every time. I've also been doing theatre since High School (Not that it really counts, you don't learn sh*t compared to what you learn in community college.) I just don't want to spend forever in college.
...like accounting, and then go out to LA and take acting classes with a reputable and well-connected teacher who you also clearly hit it off with, philosophically. If the teacher is impressed enough by you, they are definitely in contact with casting directors and they'll come watch you in class. A lot of people with acting degrees from elsewhere don't do this, because they don't think they have to. And so they miss out and waste time. Anyhow, this is my best strategy idea.
Because taking acting classes with well-connected acting teachers in Hollywood or New York is a little-known way that talent gets discovered, I say at least do some stagework or acting classes before going out to LA, and see how well you're received by people. Because if you don't at least get a positive response, dreams do die hard, but it's better than finding out beforehand, rather than in LA. But if you do pass that test, then I say at least get a marketable degree like accounting...
I'm in community college right now and I want to get my AA (In theater arts acting... yeah i know) and I want to move out to Los Angeles and take professional classes and audition... My parents think that I should go to a state university and get my bachelors... My reasoning is that since I'm an actor I don't need the college education, just the basics and acting classes. They think it's a huge gamble to go straight to LA with just an AA degree. What do you think? I say go to LA
If you get a chance, however, you absolutely must buy two books by the eminent linguist David Crystal: 1) "How Language Works", and 2) "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language". Basically, everything by him is excellent. He has his own website where you can buy his books and videos, or you can try to find them at your library. And if your library doesn't already have them, you can request that they purchase his stuff. Also look at Dr. John McWhorter's stuff. He's right up there, too.
Thanks so much!
Coding is an incredibly valuable skill, yes, and that's why most people now keep the real understanding and explanations of it, to themselves, and to those they favor. You'll notice that the official textbooks on coding are a confusing murk, and that's not by accident. Most highly-marketable, critical skills are passed down in secret, while ethnic or familial "outsiders" are given not much more than murk and every reason to avoid or give up on the field.
I'm studying computer science at a state school. Our placement rate is 100%, however about 25% of people who start don't finish. I would equate us to about an engineering degree. Also learn to code, coding is an incredibly valuable skill.
Also, I know that there exists at least one high-quality online translator, which is google's online translator. And I've even found Android translator apps that seem to do a good job. So that then prompts the question: With these programs now in existence and more powerful than ever, to what extent will we be needing translators? Speech therapists, I have no idea about. I'm not aware if there's any software that exists to replace speech therapists yet, though there might be.
I'm not sure I'd necessarily major in either of those things, until you check out the job market first, by locating and contacting whatever professional societies there is for both speech therapists and translators, and asking them if they think the job market is oversaturated/oversaturating and whether the industry as an iceberg is melting and shrinking or not, and how long that might continue. I think a major translation company is called Schreiber, and they train. Contact them first, I say.
Actually, it's interesting that you ask this question, because I've come to recently discover linguistics and what little I've studied, I enjoy immensely. I recently read an older edition of Morry Sofer's "The Translator's Handbook" and it seems like a very appealing career, as I'm finally to the point of my development where languages and cultural comparison are very important to me. I also enjoy the books and videos of John McWhorter and David Crystal. Anyhow, back to your question:
Do you think psycholinguistics is a good road to go down? I'm planning on double majoring in both Linguistics and Psychology. I'm planning on being either a speech therapist or translator.
Do you think psycholinguistics is a good road to go down? I'm planning on double majoring in both Linguistics and Psychology.
I'd say to major in something more immediately relevant to concrete infrastructure, and learn the math and statistics in the context of getting that degree. And read philosophy books on your own time. Yes, philosophy is essential to life, but it's not immediately essential to infrastructure. Unfortunately, computer programming instruction is mostly dog-shit, and so you'll have to figure that out on your own. But accounting? Engineering? Building and Construction? Logistics? Yes x 4.
How about math/philosophy double major with minor in statistics?
I think if you're someone who doesn't know at all what you want to do, then I don't think just rushing into college is the way to go. But yeah, I totally agree with your points... Just, being an IT guy atm, CS and IT tech jobs are also pretty big (although they probably count as science majors)... This whole 17th century way of education is just a waste when the world needs people to make those bridges, computers, and apps that everyone likes so much and those require logic, not just creativity
Psychology really IS political correctness and you know they even have financial incentives to put people on medication [high school certainly does]... It's disgusting
probably lieing or part of the very very small percent