re: Google has a plan to disrupt the college degree

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And it’s shocking that the comrades at Google want to deprive people of that indoctrination.

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How is it shocking? They want to dominate every avenue they can and generate piles of cash.

Some of y'alls political dogma leads you into really silly statements.

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The truth is unless your degree is from a major that still has value (Stem degrees for the most part) its probably not worth going to college.

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I went back to college in my mid-20s after the Great Recession had, like many other degrees and certificates at the time, rendered my once in-demand AAS in Civil Engineering Technology junior college degree insufficient. Before The Recession began to groan and creak, let alone bust wide arse open, my chosen AAS had a proven, vetted, decades-long track record of employing 98%+ of its graduates with well-paying Civil Engineering Technician positions, as well as solid Land Surveying internships across the Southeast. When I graduated out of a class of over 20 students we had 2 individuals obtain positions. (And one of those two people was the first female to graduate from the program in almost a decade, and the only reason she got a job -and this was a well known, common knowledge fact- was because the individual who headed up a now defunct GIS program at a nearby D2 university got his dick sucked by her on the evening that our program toured the facilities for recruiting purposes.)

I worked for a few years in a field not related to my degree, and after I'd had enough of that, I decided to do the unthinkable and go back to school - a university, Mississippi State- and major in Ag Engineering and Business with a concentration in Geomatics and Land Surveying. Aside from being sick of my job, what spurred me to go back was that during the peak of the Recession and our (my classmates and I) desperate, futile search for a position, the recruiters, HR people, engineers and surveyors' really only had 1 answer for us on the subject of being able to compete with CEs and experienced or licensed surveyors who were, at the time, applying for the same CETech jobs and beginning surveying positions that we were applying for: Go and get a 4 year degree and when we'd finished the economy would hopefully be turned around and we'd have more qualifications to boot. (To their credit, nobody at the time had any answers to what in the hell anybody ought to be doing except praying they're not next on the chopping block.)

With my Ag engineering and business curriculum, I had to obtain a minor in business that I didn't want, so obviously I took a lot of business classes as a part of my core curriculum. Furthermore, I'd take these business classes as electives when they were made available because the classes were so easy. I wanted to GTFO ASAP, so anytime I could load up with 18+ hours a semester while not being stretched too thin (because I was still working), then I'd do it. (Mind you, that many hours a semester only came with the dean's written permission to do so; we can't have you finishing too quickly now son.) Unlike the 18 year old sitting next to me in class, I kept a close eye on the debt; all the while I became increasingly disgruntled with the ruse and scheme that is higher education, and its ridiculous curriculum requirements being force-fed to students in half-arse English by incompetent instructors, professors and support personnel who had very little understanding of the working world outside of academia and how it functioned: I had many wonderful professors and instructors (many of which I still talk to today), and so not all of them were this way, but to anyone with an inkling of livin' under their belt, it was crystal clear to see that the whole system was designed to suck as much time (i.e., money) out of the student in order to maximize the revenue from said student. Every semester counts for the school regarding their cash cow (the student), and every attempt was made -all the way down to the bitter end- at attempting to bring as many of us back for postgraduate degrees as they could. After all, to paraphrase a Ted Talk I watched one time, "The goal of the universities is not what they say it is, i.e., to educate and prepare professionals to enter and contribute to their professional fields, but instead what it has become is a factory with a production goal of making as many professional students as possible, and that's not how it was supposed to be."

In any case, the "caliber" of the student body in many of those business classes- especially the ones who were majoring in general business, outdoor adventures, bagpiping, decision sciences, women's studies, etc.- was, at best, laughable. They either had no business being in higher education, or they had no business being in the degree program they were in, or, usually, both.

"How, OH HOW, was little Kappa Sig Johnny going to study for- let alone PASS- that brutal 3 page multiple choice exam on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and still make the frisbee tourney on the drill field at 5 and the mixer at 7?"

There was always a running joke in my engineering department that if you wanted to know who had actual job prospects and options upon their graduation, then go and look out over the Drill Field during a class change: The kids who were throwing frisbees and shooting the shite were not like the ones who were head down, studying notes, earphones in, and hauling arse across campus to their next STEM class.

And it was true- still is.

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We’ll tell that to all the 50-80 year olds who told their kids they wouldn’t make it without a college degree.

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And this is the biggest travesty of it all: Somewhere along the way those 50 to 80 year olds had their britches leg rolled up and pop culture, the media, the universities, the government- SOMEBODY- told them this was the case, and then they parroted it as the gospel truth to the children who went to college and had a little studying with their fun instead of the other way around. They wound up being the fall guy for the biggest hoax that this modern day country has ever seen, and one that is continuing on uninterruptedly with business as usual right up under our noses while the streets continue to fill up with those same vermin who thought college and adult life was all about them and what they want instead of holding the damn line like big boys and girls.

After all, they did what they were told, so it's somebody else's fault, right? That's the gist of the whole kit and caboodle with Antifa and Occupy WS, isn't it? That somebody lied to us and "it" is "their" fault, so we're gonna tear this bitch down and start anew.

And they're partly right in that they were lied to, but where they're gravely wrong is that they're tearing down the wrong part of the society that actually caused their anger and angst, and they're missing the overall general point of being alive: "It" is "life," and "it" is a bitch. You get lied to, played with, schemed on, you fail, you suffer, you hurt...and then you die. You will not escape that fate, so deal with it, don't be a bitch about it, and don't make everyone else who's on the same boat with you even more miserable, because this much is certain: Regardless of the intensity of the tantrums you throw, the lies that your parents were told and that they and the universities, etcetera told you aren't coming true in your lifetime, and life won't ever stop being a bitch- you can bet your little degree in "queer musicology" on that one.

So yeah, frick the university Ponzi scheme.

TLDR: I digress.

That’s cool. They already have a platform if the merge with LinkedIn’s https://www.lynda.com

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make the college degree a sign of education (not job training) again!

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As they were intended to be Job training should take part as apprenticeships, internships, formal in the job training.

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institution of higher learning," also "body of persons constituting a university," from Anglo-French université, Old French universite "universality; academic community" (13c.), from Medieval Latin universitatem (nominative universitas), "the whole, aggregate," in Late Latin "corporation, society," from universus "whole, entire" (see universe). In the academic sense, a shortening of universitas magistrorum et scholarium "community of masters and scholars;"

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