[Kosh]

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/15/infolit

[IceFire]

I do tech support for e-learning systems on a university campus.  Absolutely...95% of people are technological idiots as the title of that article says.  More than that...they are absolutely unable to think with any level of critical thought.  What disturbs me most is that is what university is predicated on!

[Nix]

Semi related, at my University, a required course for all students is a library media class.  In this class, you utilize the internet to get sources for essays, and other research, which involves using a computer.  You wouldn't believe how many people either drop out or say it's a waste of time to take because they have to learn how the library works.  It is disturbing, I mean, how can you find information when your library does away with the old-fashioned card-based catalog system and goes electronic?  Not ALL card systems have been removed, but every collection can be searched online at the library.

Nah, they'd rather talk on thier RAZR's, thinking they're savvy, and stare at the wierdo in the back who uses a laptop to take notes in class.

[Turambar]

i'm known as computer jesus around here.

[Taristin]

I end up having to fix most of my friends computer problems, too. So yes. College students are technology morons.

[Descenterace]

By the third year of my CompSci course I was completely disillusioned with the whole business of Uni education, at least in the IT context. A First Class degree means very little; I have seen some of the crap so-called 'first class' students produce. I have to maintain that **** at work. It's usually quicker and easier to start over, which cuts the code size in half and quadruples the speed, while simultaneously making it readable to the rest of the company, who don't have time to sit down and spend eight hours figuring out exactly what the idiot was trying to do because the only existing documentation is usually a preliminary design that quickly became obsolete when said idiot found that the language they're coding in isn't identical to Java.

On the other hand, there are a lot of students out there who deserve the degree.

Problem is, with such a wide range of skill levels represented by a single grade, does it really mean anything beyond 'I spent 3/4 years at Uni'?

[Nuke]

dispite the amount of weed i smoked in school, i think my head ran circles around anyone elses brain who attended. but then of cours4e i forgot everything i learned, so in the end it was a waste of time and money. nuke the human race!

[vyper]

I think I'm glad I went to uni in the UK. My memories are mostly positive.

[aldo_14]

By the third year of my CompSci course I was completely disillusioned with the whole business of Uni education, at least in the IT context. A First Class degree means very little; I have seen some of the crap so-called 'first class' students produce. I have to maintain that **** at work. It's usually quicker and easier to start over, which cuts the code size in half and quadruples the speed, while simultaneously making it readable to the rest of the company, who don't have time to sit down and spend eight hours figuring out exactly what the idiot was trying to do because the only existing documentation is usually a preliminary design that quickly became obsolete when said idiot found that the language they're coding in isn't identical to Java.

On the other hand, there are a lot of students out there who deserve the degree.

Problem is, with such a wide range of skill levels represented by a single grade, does it really mean anything beyond 'I spent 3/4 years at Uni'?

At any good uni it does, yes.

[Descenterace]

Bristol.

Supposedly one of the best.