What did you learn today?

[Kaido]

I'm sure he will be joining thefpsreview forums, right @Kaido ?

You mean https://www.reddit.com/r/atot ?

 

[nakedfrog]

Only 55 members, huh?

 

[lxskllr]

At this time of year I'm always grateful that school is over for me. I do not miss that part of life at all. Always dreaded September as a kid. I sometimes miss the non school aspects of childhood, but I wouldn't want to go back.

I always looked forward to getting back to school, and that lasted about a week. Then it's "This shit sucks..." :^D

I think what I really liked was new pens, stationary, and books. After the newness wore off, I was left with the bullshit.

 

[igor_kavinski]

You mean https://www.reddit.com/r/atot ?

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You can ask Schro for the AT refugee tag after you join the forums: https://forums.thefpsreview.com

It's just insurance in case these forums are suddenly gone, like the planet Alderaan.

 

[IronWing]

I learned that I don't know where my install file is for my standalone version of MS Office Pro Plus 2016. I have a new laptop on order and I'd rather not pay for Office again, most annoying.

Edit: I found the install file on an old thumb drive. I suppose this means that I have to verify the install with Microsoft and I'm going to be told to get bent as I purchased the copy of Office for $15 under an employee home purchase program circa 2004 and MS has been providing free updates ever since.

Still works!

 

[IronWing]

I always looked forward to getting back to school, and that lasted about a week. Then it's "This shit sucks..." :^D

I think what I really liked was new pens, stationary, and books. After the newness wore off, I was left with the bullshit.

I liked the school part of school but being poor really started to suck. After leaving grad school, I realized how much effort I was putting into stroking professorial egos. I wouldn't mind taking a class here and there but I have no interest in pursuing another degree.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The state of education angers me to the point where I would consider starting my own academic institution to show everyone how to do it right but I'm pretty sure that the teachers I end up hiring lose their focus and cheerfulness in short order as they face students who pay for tuition but not really interested in learning despite the teachers making their best effort.

But degrees are not the answer. I've seen so many dipshits hacking the exams and assignments to get great marks or GPAs and just be totally useless in real life. They treat the degree as a trophy of some sort instead of an achievement signifying that they actually learnt something and they are capable of applying that knowledge in real life.

You know what irks me the most? People who completed degrees with the syllabus in English yet they can't write a decent English sentence to save their life. This is exactly my complaint about "hacking" their way through. And then it hurts my head to be surrounded by these self important idiots who think they are special because they are degree holders but I don't learn anything from them and actually get dumber with each passing day as I spend more and more time with them, not because I want to but because it's my job and there's no easy way out.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I do think the entire system needs a revamp, should focus more on practical knowledge as well as self sufficiency instead of just preparing you to work for the man and pay bills and just be a rat in the system. But I guess that's what they want.

 

[lxskllr]

This country did kids a diservice by telling them that they'd be minimum wage alcoholics if they didn't go into debt getting magic job papers. Flying a desk isn't for everyone, and some people(me) don't get along well with school. I enjoy learning, but I'm task oriented. I have a problem, and I want to learn how to fix it. The esoteric stuff I like learning just to know, is almost worthless in my real world.

You can make good money learning a trade, and a lot of jobs that want papers to get in, don't really require them to do the job. It's just the cost of entry to do technical work someone with decent intelligence could learn as they go. Pay the right people in the hope you get paid back in the decades to come... If I didn't know better(?), I might think it was a scam to extract money from nothing.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The esoteric stuff I like learning just to know, is almost worthless in my real world.

I have the exact same problem. I get addicted to learning about stuff that has no monetary value whatsoever.