People, hear me out. I think we must create our own obscure slang/language! Let's embrace the obscurity and indieness of this site. If the weird ass niche memes can do it, we can too! >:3
i love how there isnt a constant stream of new content here, i get to actually feel excited when i take some time away from the computer and check here again to find new posts, its like opening christmas presents
This internet that we have been granted is nowhere near the same as it was 10, 5, not even two years ago. Social media companies who used to be good platforms use it to breed hate. Corporations read us like books from the information that we so "willingly" give them. Politicians use it to spread partisan information and divide us even further. From immigrants to gender and sex identities, they twist ideas and use them against us. All of these are bad on their own, but their worst mistake? AI data centers.
This is a concept only pleasurable to those in the upper echelon. A concept that has plagued us for more than two years now. A mistake recognized by the majority, but upkept by the louder minority. As people, we know we are better in numbers. I believe that through this knowledge, and whatever divine belief you wish to use, that we can stop this. Create a virus for the data centers, blow them from the inside, ANYTHING can be accomplished when we work as a team.
Exams be like. I had a friend in uni that was awesome at memorising things fast and learning fast for exams. So he would study two or three days before the exam and ace it. And then three days later he didn't remember anything about the exam. While another of my friends learned things quite decently and was capable to give knowledge a practical usage, but was shit at doing exams, so she ended up failing or having pretty low scores. That's the greatness of exams. It doesn't matter your actual skill or knowledge, just how good you are at taking exams.
Luckily in the occidental world, even though credentials are important and helpful they aren't everything. And even without formal credentials there are many good business that will hire you. And I say this because I have friends without degree working as CS and other stuff that usually requires a degree. But in Asia (at least in China, Korea, India and Japan) credentials are everything, and a difference of 0.1 is the difference between getting into a good uni and having a job or having zero chances (this is said by some Asian friends, I haven't had that experience first hand).
So as Europeans we are kinda lucky. And also we have more chances to repeat the exams throughout our lifes.
But even with that, the system of exams is absurd and only proves that you can do exams, nothing more. It doesn't prove knowledge nor skill. And once I finish my degree I'll study other things, but outside the university system; because I don't need the stress of exams no more.
Good luck. I'm in last year of uni and I should be studying right now because I have finals and retakes, lol I like knowledge, but I hate having to be examined. It's so arbitrary and useless. Like you could memorise everything the day before, pass and then forget everything and they don't care. Exams are just useless and a waste of time for both students and teachers.
I didn't get into a maths degree precisely for that. I'll learn maths by myself. I'm not getting examined of random and hard as hell topics just to increase stress.