Concerning DM's comment about "you didn't do a thing. Somebody else did it for you". Speak for yourself, Baboon.
As for me at the university, the profs, the students, the classrooms, the lecture halls, all were impediments to my advancement. I had to teach myself. You walked into a class and the idiot profs expected that you already knew everything in that subject. After all, this was the university. You should know what you need to know. The profs weren't there to teach. They were there to profess.
You had to know the subject which you had to teach yourself. Then you had to give it back to the prof the way the prof wanted it. Then you had to assimilate the content of the course since you knew further courses built on that one. I was always asking myself why I needed them. The answer was easy. Entitlement.
I once got a job based solely on the entitlement. The job was in operations research, an area vaguely related to anything I knew. The company didn't ask me to perform calculations or create mathematical models. In fact, it didn't ask me to do anything. After a week I asked my boss what it was I was supposed to be doing. He said the job was self directed and that it was up to me to find a way to contribute. Huh? I didn't even know what the company did.
Fortunately, I got an offer from a friend doing research with heat transfer dynamics of solar panels and this allowed me to ditch the previous operation unceremoniously. The firm discovered that I was pretty to good at setting up PDEs so they conscripted me to assist in their other activities including the modelling of freeway traffic flow. It was a gas. Should have stayed there, but what did I do? Went back to grad school for more BS, and more somebody elses doing it to me, again.
Thanks Babs, for the memories. |
