^Very good point. Travel is the real teacher imo.
Yes MarilynMonroe, but having lunch in the Canteen isn't really 'attending'
........ and before you get on your high horse, I could have put Dillinger or Luigi or Neverna's name in there.
It's not directed at you, it's not sexist ... it's just a bit of BANTER.
... actually, if it was Dillinger, it would be the plumbing Uni and ...
it's a known fact that Luigi went to the Hello Kitty Cafe Hongik Uni
You and the Ant-man . . . despicable duo . . . and you both had to suffer growing up in Vic and NZ while I had THE city
No, not the city. THE city
X marks the spot . . . loved growing up there
Still have my parent's house here. Sucked at times as I had to work every Boxing Day, which is also my birthday, for the Sydney Hobart as they alays had a party to see the sailboats go past
Hahahaha . . . yea, keep telling yourself that.
Sydney has everyting . . . including a magnificent harbor and eveything associated with it . . . oh, and beaches - glorious
(My father lived in Brighton for four years, so please don't try to tell me that Melbourne has a 'beach' pfffft)
If anyone is interested, my Uni made the top 100, top 70 actually ... bit proud of that.
Obviously the grades went up after I left
It's funny how they act like you should be reverential towards Chulalongkorn uni...
I reckon your experience of places varies a lot from department to department and whether you are an UG or a PG. The rankings always seem to be more about research aspects, yet they're used by undergrads to rate their courses, which they don't seem to do so much.
To be honest, I would rather drive a vehicle engineered by time-served apprentices and experienced technicians than a fresh graduate engineer. Some of the engineers I've encountered (including ones with PhDs), even in august institutions really make much of their paper reputation, but present an actual problem to them, and watch them flap, snap, and panic. I wouldn't rule out the acrobats either.
For a lot of people, after they get through a degree, they have start from scratch anyway to learn how to do a job that their piece of paper says they're really clever at, but that they can't really do. Though some of them are like necessities for access to certain jobs.
I wish I hadn't bothered really, there are plenty of good jobs you don't need a degree for. I originally intended to do something completely different, but timing and circumstances made going to uni and doing the courses I did a better short-term option.
I can't say that attending a particular uni or working for a particular organisation is anything I could be arsed to be proud of.
To me, they just a logo, some buildings, and some twats, sometimes useless twats; sometimes malicious twats; but still twats.
I agree on this. I find experience is the best teacher even for doctors. The reason I say that is when I went to a high end clinic in Beiiing for an ailment, the doctor was asking my symptoms and looking at a book online. I swear I got the wrong diagnosis and/or meds for what I may have had. They were robotic and I could tell many of them were new grads. I'd take an old doctor with experience anyday over a new graduate. Doctors aren't taught much about nutrition either, so it is pointless to talk to them about anything related.
Also, there are many people that I know that went to college and have a good job in the trades or worked their way up in the business world by hard work. In Canada, you have community college programs that are 1-3 years (and much cheaper), and then university where many students are now coming out with humongous debt that they have a hard time paying off or never pay off and default on.
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