jakester318
Sparrow
Not sure if this is the right forum to post this. I recently completed two courses online as part of a Master's in Data Science. Doesn't matter what university it is because my undergraduate degree was from another university and my experience was virtually the same.
My takeaway is this: college is just not worth it anymore. You are going to spend your money on an inferior product that will disappoint you. Most university professors are liberal and although I could talk about how their liberal biases infect their lectures, that's not even the worst part of it. They aren't even teaching. Supposedly, professors are supposed to be subject matter experts in their field. I don't even know if they are because I am not even given a chance to see what they know. Sadly, professors relegate themselves to merely reading word for word directly from their PowerPoint slides. But even worse than that, this past semester my professor posted YouTube content that was created by another professor from another university and this content amounted to nearly 30% of the lecture material.
Imagine that, taking a course from a professor who "contracted out" 30% of his lecture material to someone on YouTube who never made a dime off of his content, but I paid $900 for it. Needless to say, I am not going back. I got my 6 credit hours and $1700 later, I know absolutely nothing about statistical modeling or data science computing in Python. I just never really mastered the material because the professor put in an utterly abysmal amount of effort and passion into his lectures and as a result, I was not impassioned at all to learn anything, no matter how hard I tried.
Do yourself a favor and really consider what you are doing in setting out to achieve a degree from a university, especially a masters degree. Professors who lecture by merely reading a PowerPoint presentation to you might as well piss in your face. You are paying for someone to piss in your face. It's a crude statement, I know. But when you throw away money on utter rubbish, you are wasting your precious resources and time and you will never get that back.
My takeaway is this: college is just not worth it anymore. You are going to spend your money on an inferior product that will disappoint you. Most university professors are liberal and although I could talk about how their liberal biases infect their lectures, that's not even the worst part of it. They aren't even teaching. Supposedly, professors are supposed to be subject matter experts in their field. I don't even know if they are because I am not even given a chance to see what they know. Sadly, professors relegate themselves to merely reading word for word directly from their PowerPoint slides. But even worse than that, this past semester my professor posted YouTube content that was created by another professor from another university and this content amounted to nearly 30% of the lecture material.
Imagine that, taking a course from a professor who "contracted out" 30% of his lecture material to someone on YouTube who never made a dime off of his content, but I paid $900 for it. Needless to say, I am not going back. I got my 6 credit hours and $1700 later, I know absolutely nothing about statistical modeling or data science computing in Python. I just never really mastered the material because the professor put in an utterly abysmal amount of effort and passion into his lectures and as a result, I was not impassioned at all to learn anything, no matter how hard I tried.
Do yourself a favor and really consider what you are doing in setting out to achieve a degree from a university, especially a masters degree. Professors who lecture by merely reading a PowerPoint presentation to you might as well piss in your face. You are paying for someone to piss in your face. It's a crude statement, I know. But when you throw away money on utter rubbish, you are wasting your precious resources and time and you will never get that back.