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That's why I don't get the animators who make tests here sometimes.

"Tests" here are junk food for the creators ego.

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I was being cynical lol, don't take it literally. Of course what you learn in college is invaluably applied in the real world. It's just...

The thing is, whatever you learn from college will be outdated by the time you enter a place of work. Error can relate to this; IT is very fickle a field. Engineering, maybe. What you learn in college that matters more though is your ability to adapt and build on what you have. The methodology. When you're finally working, you're still going to be learning things, but now there isn't a system to grade you or hold your hand and anyone can excel at their own pace. So your real task is to excel faster and better than everyone else without being coddled by complacency. And then there's Politics. You have to balance that now as well.

Grades is really subjective. I wouldn't dismiss it so easily. I would say Grades at the very least gets your foot in the door, like how the first paragraph of a draft gets you in the Editor's eyes long enough to not end up in the garbage can.

Ah, I see.

Thank you for that. I've gained additional knowledge once again. Good chat with Error and you today Hewitt.

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Yo Croons what's up

hey Chair

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It's a matter of principle. You get what you pay for

you're not really paying for education.

Uni is fucked. You're paying for a piece of paper that says you're qualified. If you really wanted to learn something, just stay home and learn it yourself. Unless you're in a major that really requires hands-on experience you can't get at home, or you've got world class teachers that are actually worth listening too, it's always easier to teach yourself.

+ lectures are recorded anyway

What if some people could see into the future but didn't even know it? They just perceived 5 minutes from now as the "present." Would it even make a difference?

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you're not really paying for education.

Uni is fucked. You're paying for a piece of paper that says you're qualified. If you really wanted to learn something, just stay home and learn it yourself. Unless you're in a major that really requires hands-on experience you can't get at home, or you've got world class teachers that are actually worth listening too, it's always easier to teach yourself.

+ lectures are recorded anyway

pretty fucking much, also the connections you make.

lol if you're getting a dumb degree yeah

I'm legitimately learning engineering shit and math, I don't know what you're talking about

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you're not really paying for education.

Uni is fucked. You're paying for a piece of paper that says you're qualified. If you really wanted to learn something, just stay home and learn it yourself. Unless you're in a major that really requires hands-on experience you can't get at home, or you've got world class teachers that are actually worth listening too, it's always easier to teach yourself.

+ lectures are recorded anyway

Note: Our schools don't have recorded lectures. Some of us do it but it's not the norm.

Anyways, I don't disagree with you. The diploma is all that's really necessary in the real world, moreso when you're taking masterals. I'm just saying it's like tipping a waiter or paying a service charge at a restaurant. Even if you didn't eat anything or just ordered a free glass of water, you're paying for the waiter's time, the seat that's gonna warm your ass for the night, the glass and liquid that's gonna be used, the rag that's going to wipe your table clean when you're done.

In uni, you're paying for the resources. The library books you read. Your lecturer's salary, whether you listen or not. Whatever miscellaneous facilities you decide to use there like the cafeteria or gym or dorm. The intangible asset of knowledge gained through your study time. So the least one could do is attend out of principle. At the very least if you're not going to listen, you'll still avail of what you paid for when you're ready to listen.

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pretty fucking much, also the connections you make.

This comes after you get a job. Unless, whoever is sponsoring your academics is also the person who's going to hire you after. Politics is only good for if you're in Student Council and have extra-curricular shit you'd like to have (to put in your resume as an endgoal).

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What if some people could see into the future but didn't even know it? They just perceived 5 minutes from now as the "present." Would it even make a difference?

You'd be having a conversation with them and they'd reply to whatever you're saying in the future. Not to mention you're seeing the future but acting in the past. So how would that work? Do they have this ability from birth? If they do, then you can't teach them to speak or anything like that properly. Unless they just get glimpses of the future instead of it being permanent?

I think someone hacked Naimad's account

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What if some people could see into the future but didn't even know it? They just perceived 5 minutes from now as the "present." Would it even make a difference?

That would essentially be the equivalent of a desynched skype call in real time.

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lol if you're getting a dumb degree yeah

I'm legitimately learning engineering shit and math, I don't know what you're talking about

engineering is a practical major so yeah, you need the resources.

but for example u can pretty much just study math on ur own and get good without college.

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You'd be having a conversation with them and they'd reply to whatever you're saying in the future. Not to mention you're seeing the future but acting in the past. So how would that work? Do they have this ability from birth? If they do, then you can't teach them to speak or anything like that properly. Unless they just get glimpses of the future instead of it being permanent?

Think of it like this... Let's call the person who lives 5 seconds in the future Tim.

Bob approaches asks Tim and asks him for a marker. Tim recieved this information 5 seconds ago, but he hands Bob a marker right after Tim asked for it. This is because Bob doesn't percieve the present at all. He's making decisions five seconds in the future but they don't actually happen until 5 seconds previously. Otherwise this would cause a paradox. If Bob acted early, the future that he saw would never happen.

Just seeing glimpses of the future is a totally different b situation :p

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What if some people could see into the future but didn't even know it? They just perceived 5 minutes from now as the "present." Would it even make a difference?

When you get down and think about it, that's actually kind of a scary reality. You would essentially be living in the same way as everyone else but seeing the world and reacting to it ahead of time. Imagine if you lived like this and you were walking through a crowd of people. You'd be seeing people coming towards you before they do, so you'd be trying to move past them before they come to you. And also you'd be bumped into other people before it happens, so to someone seeing this from how we normally perceive time, you would be suddenly startled, pushed, hurt etc by nothing until 5 seconds later, and normally people wouldn't tend to notice this and people would then perceive you as mentally ill.

Actually, if you read my post last page i explain that i think nothing would even change. It's like wondering if everyone sees red as red, or if someone else's red is actually blue colored but that color is just red to them. Everyone could live in different points in time and we wouldn't know :p