US Politics on Sidechat | Idk if this is a hot take but I feel like in the last few decades college has gotten too normalized and easy to the point that a Bachelors is worth very little, and now the only way to be actually above the pack is a Masters, and even that is losing value

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US Politics 19h

Idk if this is a hot take but I feel like in the last few decades college has gotten too normalized and easy to the point that a Bachelors is worth very little, and now the only way to be actually above the pack is a Masters, and even that is losing value

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Anonymous 19h

Pretty much. Bachelors is the new high school diploma (esp since colleges are adding more and more Gen Ed requirements which force you to spend more money and stay longer, so you don’t really even have time to learn things actually pertaining to your degree). Masters is the new bachelors (which is reflected in the pay…excuse me why do you require a masters for an entry level only paying 35k a year????)

Anonymous 19h

For the record, I do not mean that financial aid for college is bad, or making it more accessible for lower income or minority students. What I mean is that on a genuine difficulty level, college has gotten too easy. I’m on my 3rd year now, and I feel like they’re still teaching freshman content, as if it were an introduction class. I wish my degree was harder, more advanced, and just meant more in the end

Anonymous 18h

I very much disagree with this. I’m also inclined to say that this statement is wrong. I mean what makes you think it’s any easier?

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og_beer 19h

Yeah, and some of it is great, everyone should learn about US history, or culture courses, etc. But at the same time, that’s what high school is for? I’d much prefer if we made high school the General Ed, so I can get right into the courses I actually need for my degree. I want my 120 units to be packed with MY degree. But I also just want college to be harder, more advanced and better paced, instead of freshman 101 content in a 3rd year course

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OP 19h

I was in a college level statistics class learning about “dependent vs independent” variables and half the class still couldn’t tell the difference. The answers were on the screen and they got it wrong. Like this is literally 4th grade intro to science stuff. We are in a 300 level college class.

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og_beer 19h

I’m a Computer Engineering major (I’m okay being laughed at for it), and I do it because I love computers, I always have, always will. But the passion isn’t there from most students, they do it because of the money, and AI, etc. And then we’re stuck doing basic “what is a byte, how to count in binary” in 3rd year courses and people STILL don’t get it. Not everyone is meant for every degree and that’s okay, and I wish that they’d let some kids go a different path, instead of holding me back

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OP 19h

Student attitude is def huge issue. They’re in college bc they think they have to/its natural progression not bc they actually want that career. The number of social work majors in some of my classes who showed up high as fuck to class genuinely terrifies me. If for no other reason than y’all know you’re gonna be state employees and they gonna drug test you right? Secondly don’t be deciding the fate of society’s most vulnerable higher than snoop dog