ITT fucked by data "science"

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>have free education that Americans would die for
>downside is just a few precious electives
>take an introductory course in data science because I want to be a data scientist in a few years
>professor is from Cambridge and TAs are soon to be physics phds so expect course to be good
>it's literally NOTHING but doing shit in excel because nobody is expected to know how to code
>literally nothing to learn
>course is eventually locked in so can't change it
>friend says he's taking a course in VR and gets to use the oculus rift and shit
>mfw didn't know of the existence of the course
>found out the VR course is only in the faculty of arts not sciences that's why I missed it
>regret my life
>I'll never get to use expensive VR equipment to make VR games for shits and giggles on the governments dollar because I took the wrong course
Let's talk of other ways how the word SCIENCE fucked us from learning what would actually be fun.
Data science is bullshit.