This post was originally supposed to be a response to the post "An honest story about education in IT. Is it worth it?" , however, apparently went beyond these limits and can be considered as an independent work.
We often have to read in such posts, as well as hear from the lips of students and graduates that their expectations from studying at the university were not met. This problem can be viewed from different angles. I will only touch on a few aspects. Namely, those that relate to the interaction of universities and students. So, let's analyze the complaints of the author of the original post, formulate the reasons for what is happening, and give new applicants advice on how to graduate from the university, and not regret that it was boring and useless.
The dissonance described by the author of the post comes from a misunderstanding by students of what a university is. If we discard the departmental universities that train professional personnel for certain areas of life, then the goal of universities (hereinafter universities, so as not to be confused with leading universities) is scientific activity. In general, everything that happens in them is subordinate to this, including the training of students. In fact, university students are just "fresh blood". Yes, the university is a human community, and in order for it not to die out, but "to multiply and multiply," students are needed. How many of the graduates each year remain in different qualities within the walls of the almamater? It is for their sake that this entire educational process, in principle, exists.
The author complains that their term papers were not interesting to anyone. Well, not quite so: the leader is not interested in your emotions, how much and how you suffered over them, but it is interesting:
- The result obtained . The topic of the coursework could be a small original research, and you were assigned to do it. If you do it, then the side effect will be that you are remembered and will be remembered.
- Research Skill . Academics should regularly demonstrate the results of their research work. And you (students), annually, or usually more often, develop this skill, get used not only to the fact that you need to be constantly busy looking for new knowledge, but also to patiently and efficiently write reports about this activity (students write term papers, and researchers articles, monographs, textbooks).
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