adrienne
@adrienne
This job posting to be one of the first lecturers at the Network School is giving me all kinds of feelings. 😩😫😫😫😩 I’m seeing it while I happen to be taking my daughter to visit colleges today so it’s hitting extra hard. While I try to formulate my thoughts, check it out and let me know what you think https://jobs.ns.com/33918
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adrienne
@adrienne
Feeling two: As many of you know, I’m in the stage of life where my kids are teenagers and deciding where to go to college. I’ve been vocally critical of universities, particularly how the rankings and competitiveness affects how (mostly affluent) parents and teenagers live their lives. They aren’t trying to build resilient, gritty, naturally curious, critical thinkers prepared for the future. They are playing a zero sum game of get into the best college by spending tens of thousands of dollars on tutors and counselors and choosing the extracurricular activities not that they enjoy but that will give them an edge on an application. When I talk to parents of teenagers in my community all they want to talk about is college. I find it all so boring and tedious. But across the internet network, I’ve found other parents like me.
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth
and ironically hundreds of thousands of dollars later and no edge in the job market.
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
That’s what I love about ethz.ch I barely attend but gained lots of knowledge for almost free (800$ / semester, they now increase to 2400$/semester for foreigners iirc) One can spend 15-30k / year getting top 5 STEM education in the world. Yes ETH is top 5 in the world and on the science lecturing better then the US counter parts from what exchange students say. US is doing more exercises, ETH does theory only. They say „you will be paid to learn the practicals. We‘ll teach you hard theory.“ If I were to go back in time I’d still go to ETHZ
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