I hate school.

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Martin
I'm in 4th year and I hate it more than ever. I had a nice internship for 16 months between 3rd and 4th years, which I enjoyed a lot. I liked the work, I loved making decent money, and I absolutely loved coming home and doing whatever the hell I felt like (which, since I lived with a bunch of other poeple like myself, often involved drinking and such).

After all that, I can barely stand school. I go to about 2hrs of lectures a week (even though I have 5 full courses) and I'm barely scrapping by with average marks, despite picking the easiest courses I could find in Comp Eng.

I'll never understand people who enjoyed this more than work...

They were in joke majors and never had to do real work, or knew their program inside & out. See "M4H takes BSc in Computing"

- M4H

Yeah you basically nailed it. I hated computer engineering from the bottom of my core. The classes sucked, the lectures sucked, and most of the professors sucked. I had no interest in any of it. Which is why I love my job so much cause it has nothing to do with engineering. Otherwise tho, I loved waking up at noon and not giving a crap. My friends who were in business "school" on the other hand... every time he whined about spending more than 30 minutes on homework or how he had to study for more than an hour for any given exam.... I really wanted to throttle him.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Actually, I'm the same way. Work for me is more of a test of my actual skills and knowledge, which makes me enjoy it more

Harvard not treating you well?

Nah they're treating me fine. It's a pretty tough school though...I have to put in at least 30 minutes of homework a night 4 times a week. It sucks...

Heh, that's a good one. When you put in >40 hours a week on homework and projects, get back to me.

 

[Muse]

I always hated school until I got to the university. I came to fear it, too, when the pressure started building to get good enough grades to go to college.

Once in the university, I had a lot more freedom and could take classes I was actually interested in - "electives." I started to love school.

Once I got into upper division (3rd year onward), I had to specialize more and more and I liked it less and less. It didn't help at the time that there were massive demonstrations shutting down the school. I dropped out, and by the time I got back in I had a much different perspective and could better appreciate what I was studying.

Especially if you hate school I'd recommend dropping out for a while and coming back with a fresh perspective.

 

[Jeff7]

Hah, I'm only in my 4th semester and I already hate it.
I can't say that I ever really liked any of it for that matter. It's boring, tedious, and uninteresting.
Major is mechanical engineering technology, 4 year program.
The only classes I liked out of my entire college experience thus far were two philosophy classes I had sometime in 2000-2002 at a community college, when I was going for a 2 year Cisco Networking program. All that netted me was 57 transfer credits (I got 60, but one class didn't transfer to Penn State University), of which 18-21 count toward the MET major.

There's just so much material jammed into such a little time period, there's not time to really learn it. It all just gets quickly jammed in there, and you hope that enough clings to your neurons to get you through the tests, then it's just all gone. I've had Calc I and II. Now I'm in Differential Equations. I can hardly remember basic rules of exponents, and I can't remember how to integrate things like x^-3. It's just gone.
It's just so rushed that there's no time to get to enjoy any of it.


I did work for 2.5yrs at Walmart before going back to school. I had much more free time then. The work never followed me home. Now I don't really get much out of my weekends - they are when I can get adequate sleep, and thus are when my mind is working well. Translation: weekends are for homework. Though right now I'm probably screwing myself over posting on OT instead of doing homework. Once I have my traditional low first test grade in each class, I'll probably pick up the pace. Well, not every class has a low initial grade. Physics and economics were easy. I don't think I studied more than 15 minutes for any test in either class. Econ got 10 minutes for the final, but I still got an A in the class. Both subjects are very simplistic and intuitive to me.
But calculus - that's some crazy and insidious math which makes very little sense to me. I can almost see that it might be useful, but they spend very little time showing how calculus applies to the real world. That doesn't help me much, because I'm enduring college because it's supposed to be useful in terms of getting a decent job. If I'm being shown stuff, I want to see how it is going to be useful.
The bad test grades work as a good gauge as to which classes will need the most time devoted to them, and also give me an idea of how much time they will require. Physics homework assignments take me about 15% as long as they do for others (~1hr for me), but calculus can take 8hrs or more.

 

[dighn]

I did have more free time in school though. That aspect was great. I've found work to be more energy draining.

I was in CompEng too.