What's Wrong With University by Jeff Rybak

Author:Jeff Rybak [Rybak, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2010-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

YOU DON'T HAVE TO

If you've been waiting for someone to say it, then I'll come right out and say it. If you don't want to be at university, then don't be. In fact, if you really don't want to be there, then you shouldn't be there, and the best decision you ever make might be to leave. If you don't know what to tell your parents, you can hand them this book and underline everything that makes sense to you. If you need someone to blame it on, you can blame it on me and they can send me hate mail. But if you're pissed at a system that let you down, then you deserve to be pissed, because any so-called "guidance counsellor" who was doing his job, and at all interested in guidance, should have told you ages ago that people don't belong in university if they have no reason to be there. It's a bloody expensive way to waste your time and screw up your options in life. Even aside from the time you are wasting, and the amount of stress and misery you are inflicting on yourself, let's look at where you are actually heading.

Your best-case scenario is that you keep it together for however many years it takes to graduate, you stay out of academic trouble, and you emerge with a degree. Congrats, you've probably beaten the odds. Now you'll have a degree to get your foot in the door, and you can look forward to a white-collar job you don't care about rather than a blue-collar job you don't care about. With an undergraduate degree that reflects all that time you spent not caring about your studies, you can pretty much write off any chance of going further with your education. Because you obviously aren't getting into graduate or professional schools with those grades.

Did I just say graduate or professional school? But right now I'm writing about students who don't even want to be in undergraduate programs! I'm talking to the students who are just scraping by and should be happy to get their degrees if they can; it isn't like going further was ever in the cards for this lot. Wrong. Refer to the first point. You aren't stupid. I don't have a clue what you want out of life, and maybe you don't either, but the fact that you lack motivation and don't care about education at this particular time doesn't mean you aren't suited for it. I'm not surprised you might feel that way after spending too long in a system that seems designed to send you exactly this message, but the system is flawed, not you. Maybe one day you'll know what you want, and maybe you'll find you need a graduate degree, or some kind of professional designation to get there, and that's just fine. All kinds of people find their careers and vocations in their mid to late twenties, thirties, or even later. I'm not saying that's necessarily an

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