12 Apr 2007
When your learning is useless
I have always wanted to pursue computer science.
I knew I liked the subject, and could even say I had a certain flair for the subject. Back in school, the computer science engineering course had such a glamorous look to it. I was under the impression I no longer had to stop learning mundane crap totally unrelated to what I wanted to do in life.
I have cribbed about this before, but so far, the course has been nothing but a big disappointment. Atleast so far anyway. I still learn Chemistry (_Engineering_ Chemistry that is) and English!!
Yet, I believe I have now changed my mindset towards learning nonsense. These days I am just going through the routine. Get what needs to be done done. What needs to be mugged mugged.
I realise that in life there are always going to times when you wish you were doing something else, and so I have taken this futile mugging and vomitting work as a training for working on stuff that I don’t like, which I think will be a critical factor in the working world.
Hey,
I can totally understand. The stuff they teach us as part of our teaching degree will never help us be teachers in the classroom. I, too, had to do Chemistry (but only in my first year thank goodness) but it was worthless and I didn’t see a need to doing it.
TQ is nearly finished – YAY – I’ll leave it a week or so and then will organise an AI catchup!