>What type of university did you attend?>What era?>What did you learn? How do you feel about your education now?I did an English Lit degree at the premier university in my country (hah!). The Australian National University. I was told it was the best, hardest to get into, highest ranked, etc. Turns out that just meant the place had more postgrads than undergrounds, was predominantly research oriented and got a shittonne of citations. Doubt it made it better than half the other universities in Aus. Was a helluva place though, beautiful, bright and stimulating.My era - thank fuck! - was pre-woke. We still had blue hairs screeching but there were approximately zero mentions of critical race theory, gender theory, grievance studies or the like. 20-ish years ago.My fading memory of the curriculum, in order of importance/volume:- poets, poems and poetry- shakespeare, milton, chaucer, donne, wordsworth, blake, probably a few others i'm forgetting- literary movements (medieval through to modernism with the most time spent on romanticism - weirdly, don't think we did any postmodernism let alone postcolonial)Another fun fact, we studied a shitload of australian authors, like books of poetry by former anu students, but not a single American work. Oh wait, no, Emily Dickinson was big and T.S. Eliot if you still count him as American. But I only learned about what Americans consider 'the classics' years after - Melville, Hemingway et al. Funny to think how invisible all that was to us back then.Overall, it was an A+ experience. The professors were passionate and our student discussions were stimulating. I enjoyed the fuck out of deconstructing these works. Sadly, I've heard the old girl's gone so over the top giga woke these days, it's entirely unrecognisable. You can't really even study English anymore. It's like new star was level of discourse control.Anyway, that's my story. Tell me yours.
>>24852013Currently attending Youngstown State University right now as a non-traditional student and its hell. Dealing with a lot of worries over my parents getting old and perpetual loneliness but I do enjoy studying history at least
>>24852013>I did an English Lit degree at the premier university in my country (hah!). The Australian National UniversityMelbourne Uni's is probably better. I for one study (an unrelated degree) at RMIT, which is for STEMcels, so when I want to get fiction from the uni library to read around my engineering program I'm limited to about 3 works of Australiana slop. As your experience also reflects, Australian schools and universities are relentless at pushing Auslit, despite the fact that our country has never seen an author worth reading besides maybe David Malouf. Half of what we were assigned in my high school English classes was also retarded Australian fiction, so I can confirm nothing's changed on that front. I wanted to do a Classics degree but sadly I need to be employable.
>>24852013fuck Australia. I need to get out of here and move to another country, preferably one with more culture than a pot of yoghurt.
>>24852013>>24852198>>24852200Have either of you fellas seen Danger 5?
>>24852013What are you workings as now?
>>24852013Did an English Degree at an East Coast elite school, with a focus on early modern Lit and a minor in European History. Loved it, taught me to formally express my thoughts and how to find a credible premise for a claim. Sadly only the soft skills, people skills of expression and communication not the hard stem type to get instant great employment but doing ok now. I found that universities are not infested with woke morons, only certain majors are. Anything political having to do with borders and migration, anything historical having to do with the ethnic studies of a people or gender, def have "wrongthink" and you will be ostracized if you think the law should exist in some capacity beyond punishing rapists and corrupt cops. overall great experience but wish I had mixed with a hard skill to make money immediately, only academia and law are built for the humanities.
>/lit/>educationlmao
>no mention of employmentlel
>>24852013Did my first two years at the highest rated uni in my state. Was going for a general liberal arts degree cause I didn't know what I wanted to do. Then I took a programming class for fun and decided to change to that. That uni didn't have a proper program for it so I moved back to my home town that did. Don't regret any of it. Learned a lot about literature and humanities at the first uni and got an actually useful degree at the second. Payed off all my loans before my mid twenties and now working toward early retirement. Got an easy job that's not too demanding of my time so I get to write in my spare time.
>>24852241>East Coast elite schoolWhich Ivy?
>>24852013NC State, for Computer Engineering, minoring in History. I'm studying the software end of ECE, specifically Quantum Computing, with some Machine Learning, Architecture and Music Technology on the side. As for History, I'm taking whatever (little) class they have on Medieval and Early Modern times. I'm enjoying it so far, it's a solid school, though quite STEM oriented. It's not easy to get into for engineering, and I've met some very intelligent people there. I have another /lit/ friend studying Textile Engineering.
>>24852867>Textile Engineering.is this like industrial or handicraft?
>>24852389i am a writer
>>24852867i bet you're insufferable on dates if you even get any
I've studied electrical engineering in Spain. I've just finished my masters degree and I'm now looking for a job in my small city so that I don't have to pay rent. I feel just right about my education, it's the best thing that I could have studied honestly. I'm grateful that there wasn't a physics degree at the moment in my university (now there is) and that my mother talked me out of studying philosophy very early. The other option I had in mind was math, but, like physics, the job options in the private sector are centered around AI or data science slop, and I don't want to die young by working in the public sector either. I didn't know it at the moment, but my degree was the best option to end up with high earnings in the private sector, so I'm lucky.
>>24852915You should just move to China and work for Huawei
>>24852915What do you think about photonics?
>>24852900Industrial work.>>24852913Nobody on this site gets dates.
>>24852929It's interesting, I actually considered studying a photonics masters degree but it was too expensive and I looked for something more oriented to direct implementation rather than research. Moreover, as for now it seems that superconductor quantum computing has more future than photonic quantum computing, I don't know how it will end though.
>>24852013I didn't go to college, I just like to read.
