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Honestly, school is useless for me as of right now. I know I should be well rounded and stuff, but do I honestly need to know the symptoms of cervix cancer while going into a tech career? My eyes have been set on tech for my whole life, ever since I left the womb, and I know that if I do switch careers, it'll be from comp sci to cyber security not from IT to med school...

I feel like I could really be devoting my time towards something better than writing a 5 page essay on a healthy food choice.

Every night I think to myself, "You know what, I'm going to lock myself in a room and write bash scripts all day" but then I wake up in the morning, and remember I have to take a quiz on reproductive systems, learn about the procedure of organ donations for driver's ed, write 2 paragraph definitions of vocab words, and read a book about communism.

The most useful thing I learned last year, was how to efficiently navigate the java API, and that's something you don't even learn, you just encounter it. Schools need to start having more specific specialties and stop enforcing knowledge of pointless topics.

I'm not saying to remove all core classes and stuff, I'm saying why waste space in our brains with something we won't use ever again? I get it, some people don't know what career they're looking for yet so you can't make them choose, but it honestly sucks some serious ass that I can't learn what I want to at school, and as a matter of fact, I can't even learn at home, because they're filling my schedule with pointless work because they feel that they have to fill our time somehow.

Point of this long ass rant is: Why lock yourself in a room and learn about something if it isn't something you want to learn about? The space in our brain is finite enough, why can't it be filled with things we're interested in rather than things that will only be used to get good grades in the future then overwritten with useful knowledge. Same thing with time. We have a very finite amount of time in a day, and now that I think of it, a lifetime. Why spend it on something that doesn't, and never will, make your life enjoyable?

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    @apisarenco life teaches you all of those things. The only reason colleges still require core classes is for the money. They would lose thousands of dollars if they only taught major area courses. Saying core classes make you more "well rounded" as an individual is BS.
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    @apisarenco correction... SOME of school is necessary. I do have things that I am interested in besides IT, exactly why I said they shouldn't get rid of core classes. I just hate the amount of time the pointless things take up
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    @apisarenco sounds to me like that guy has tons of life experience, he just lacks the motivation to use it for something productive (though some could argue that his weed business embodies the entreprenerial spirit.)

    Taking biology as a 19 year old freshman in college does not prevent you from becoming a drug dealer in the park at 40. I never said school was unnecessary, only that core classes that are irrelevant to your desired degree are.
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