First impression:
The standards have RADICALLY fallen. No cumulative final, exams allow for cheat sheets and comprise 30% of your grade. This is insanely coddled. I sortve can’t believe it. No wonder we’re producing regards at an accelerating rate. Failure is “exclusive”.
Truly is just a piece of paper at this point. Im doing a part-time masters program and its just money laundering and bribery at this point
Graduated in 2015 and in the ten years between then and now it seems we’ve fallen off the face of a cliff.
Many law schools are still draconian humiliation rituals that grade on a curve, fwiw.
In my undergrad it was all curved exams. Idk. Maybe I’m just a boomer. This just seems really weird. It’s all about working with your classmates and doing “worksheets” and like practice questions and shit
I remember going to lectures and taking exams. Not all of these portal questions. Every class has 17 different apps and platforms.
I told someone I’m 32 and they literally blushed.
Are you back in school? When I am our benevolent dictator, I'm going to bring back oral examinations and handwriting. In law school I handwrote all my notes and all my exams and while I might not have gotten everything down I do think handwriting is a fundamentally different thing in the brain than typing. Too many students become stenographers and try to learn it all later. I think Im smart, but I also think it gave me an edge. We've forgotten that all of our abstract thought and brilliants comes from the repurposing of monkey brain wetware designed to operate in 3d space so actually drawing the thoughts into existence creates a landscape for retaining those thoughts in memory.
I studied biology and graduated in 2015. I am retaking my pre-requisites as they’ve expired and I am going to veterinary school next year.
I should probably hold off judgement. It just seems coddled.
