I don't know what to do.

[alexr_rwx]

Edutech makes me want to get out of school and into the workforce. This class. This class, oh my god, makes me want to claw my eyes out. I realized today that I spent four and a half hours sitting and listening to people talk about things that I either already knew or didn't find interesting in the slightest.

I'm perfectly capable of learning things by means of reading a book. Your research does nothing for me. Yes, in order to learn things, people should do Personally Meaningful Projects. Yes, learning is an active process. No, I don't care how you would classify a particular set of buzzwords, whether it counts as "Problem Based" or "Project Based" or "Cognitive Apprenticeship". These are not things in the real world. These are categories that people (such as yourself) made up.

It might not be school-in-general. It might just be edutech. I think I can see the value in taking a class on computability and algorithms and stuff, or about language design or AI. These are things I need to know, I think.

Janet, you make industry very tempting, though. (metasyntactic expletive)+

But I'm 23 years old, and I've spent the last 17 of those years in classrooms. Maybe it's time to not be in a classroom anymore.

Comments

[lindseykuper]

I feel you, man. I'm really glad nobody made me take a class like that. *twitch*

I like "the work force", but I miss Automata.

'metasyntactic expletive' <interrobang>

[sault.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I envision a conversation that occurs in jargon as a walk through a sea sponge.

You'll make it through the buzz-word-bound malarkey, yo.

[zip4096.livejournal.com]

Wow, Edutech sounds really, really obnoxious. What a waste of time for you, huh? :(

What's Janet do?

I wonder if you'd be happy in Mountain View, Alex! :) Granted, I'm not all that happy doing the data center thing, but software engineering is a completely different job: eg, 20% projects (http://www.eightypercent.net/Archive/2005/03/24.html) and tech talks from really cool people...

It's encouraging that you still think of real CS classes as having value, however! That's a good sign...

[reality-calls.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to let you know that I sympathize with you all the way.  I believe the arbitrary categorizations and meaningless drivel in general that I've been subjected to in my school experience is going to take years off of my life.  The private sector actually seems inviting nowadays.

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