>fell for the Loughborough meme
I fucked up by trusting """student satisfaction""" rankings, that placed it 1st in the UK. Well, now I know why it's up there--it's full of retards who just want it to be School 2.0, and who think the borderline burger-tier sports obsession and, and endless shitty regulations that stop your professors--sorry, "teachers", as they call them--from giving anyone anything below a passing mark, are good things. The CS course looks, on the very surface, to be comparable to the top-tier institutions it LARPs as, but it is anything but. You know what we're meant to have learnt by Christmas, in terms of programming? In my ""teacher""'s own words, "basic syntax". Basic FUCKING syntax. This is a university--sorry, "school"--for retards who wish they went to burgerland to play football.
Just this morning, I had a remote lab where we were supposed to split off into groups to discuss the task (which was to write a fucking "guess the number" program). I had this conversation:
Some guy: "Ugh, this wifi is so slow, I'm lagging out"
Me: "Try the Ethernet connection" (in student rooms it's much better)
Guy: "What's that?"
Me: "The wired internet connection, check for a socket by your desk"
Guy: "Do you mean wifi?"
Me: "No, wifi is a wireless connection"
Guy: "How can you have internet without wifi???"
*noises of general agreement from everyone else*
I have not met a single other CS student who knows anything more than phoneshit. Every day, I wish I hadn't fallen for (((student satisfaction))) rankings and just applied for the most prestigious and academically-intensive unis I could. Let this be a lesson to you: don't fall for meme institutions. If the main page of its website has more than 20% minorities, or anyone playing sports, don't fall for its lies and apply elsewhere.
I fucked up by trusting """student satisfaction""" rankings, that placed it 1st in the UK. Well, now I know why it's up there--it's full of retards who just want it to be School 2.0, and who think the borderline burger-tier sports obsession and, and endless shitty regulations that stop your professors--sorry, "teachers", as they call them--from giving anyone anything below a passing mark, are good things. The CS course looks, on the very surface, to be comparable to the top-tier institutions it LARPs as, but it is anything but. You know what we're meant to have learnt by Christmas, in terms of programming? In my ""teacher""'s own words, "basic syntax". Basic FUCKING syntax. This is a university--sorry, "school"--for retards who wish they went to burgerland to play football.
Just this morning, I had a remote lab where we were supposed to split off into groups to discuss the task (which was to write a fucking "guess the number" program). I had this conversation:
Some guy: "Ugh, this wifi is so slow, I'm lagging out"
Me: "Try the Ethernet connection" (in student rooms it's much better)
Guy: "What's that?"
Me: "The wired internet connection, check for a socket by your desk"
Guy: "Do you mean wifi?"
Me: "No, wifi is a wireless connection"
Guy: "How can you have internet without wifi???"
*noises of general agreement from everyone else*
I have not met a single other CS student who knows anything more than phoneshit. Every day, I wish I hadn't fallen for (((student satisfaction))) rankings and just applied for the most prestigious and academically-intensive unis I could. Let this be a lesson to you: don't fall for meme institutions. If the main page of its website has more than 20% minorities, or anyone playing sports, don't fall for its lies and apply elsewhere.
