Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Arelor
From : StormTrooper
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 02:40 am

 Ar> My experience is lots of people went there because they wanted a degree,
 Ar> but they didn't care which one, hence they were not sure what to study.

There was a time here, when positions were government funded we had a cadre of essentially professional students. They'd finish a course, poke around and see what was available and then start another one, sometimes they might have 3-4 incomplete courses, and that was pretty much all they did their entire working lives.  None of it was ever put to any use whatsoever.

About the time I left high school, there was a big push to uni and some kind of degree.  There was less interest in what the course was and what you might do with it, than just getting in, and doing something.  Most of my friends of the time did a variety, Vet Sci, Comp Sci, Geology something...  Vet Sci became a vet ultimately, I know Geology guy is/was doing something with geology, while Comp Sci guy ended up teaching English in O/S schools.  

ST

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