I've worked for over 10 years building PCs and repairing hardware, I got my skills from personal experience and from my grandad who owned a computer store for over 30 years. So apparently I need qualifications to prove myself and after a few months I realised it's all bullshit, the tutor makes us watch YouTube videos all day and made us write up a paper on how to build a computer. There was no practical involved and the other students who apparently never installed a CPU got high grades.
Academia is Bullshit
Julian Thomas
Evan Cox
>academia
>assembling pc parts
What?
Jayden Rogers
Yes, I have a PhD in PC Repair. I did my thesis on how to theoretically build the perfect computer. I dunk on Linus Tech Tips and all those other low-IQ trade people.
Lincoln Scott
I think this way too OP. What academics hate admitting is that everything boils down to funding. Even more fundamentally everything boils down to whether you're in the 99% or the 1%.
Jacob Mitchell
>retirement plans are folding and failing
>more old boomers are now 'teaching' as a grift
>youtube playlist is how class is taught while they go take a nap
>academia is a permanently decaying mainstay because the people interviewing you are HR cucks that don't know the work and would rather see some signed and stamped paper than get someone to actually test you
>J-owned OEMs enforce their market position with for-profit certifications
Nicholas Perry
OP here, I also got into an argument with my tutor about how having less RAM and faster clock speed is better than lots of RAM and slow clock speed.
Brandon Miller
that's...not academia.
Carter Clark
Woah... They teach you how to invent computers in class? Very cool OP.
Brody Harris
Whatever this institution is I need the qualifications for it, I believe it's diploma in IT level 5.
Jackson Rogers
is this in the US or a europoor thing? In the US we'd call this a trade school and they would make you assemble PCs. I did something like this in High School.