I'm not surprised one bit by this. I worked for Sprint/Nextel and we were told the same thing about phones with known issues. We were told "if they don't ask, don't tell" then pressure us into selling those exact same phones to customers (they put the higher bonuses on those phones for agents). It was very shady.
It's not a song and dance. All my years going through school, the best learning (example of math) was the teacher explaining the concept, giving examples, then giving you 1/2 the period to work on an assignment. If you got stuck, he was there to answer. The difficulty with College/University is Tech, and Power Point for sure. The teacher zips through 50+ slides then lets you out early, when you go to do an assignment at home, if you don't get it, you are pretty much hoping to find him in his office or through email to set up an appointment. Most of the time they don't reply to e-mails, and state "I have 200 students I don't have time". If I wanted to learn with "Tech" like Power Point, I would be doing online courses or classes from afar. I'm paying thousands of dollars to attend school and have them teach me my future career. My last year of College teachers were more concerned with the new construction, their vacations, or the possible strike and if they got a raise.
I disagree completely. Do you know how difficult it is to learn a trade, or to enter a computer field etc when you are tossed into a HUGE room and a teacher flies through powerpoints (on average 50+ in 1 hour) while he goes "ya you don't need this" or "you'll understand that when you do the lab. I personally dislike technology such as Power Point used at the school. It's so impersonal, and the teacher flies through it because he's presented this course 100 times. Where if a teacher has to talk, he knows he is boring people and tries to make it interesting. Then again, 75% of these Power Point teachers don't check their e-mail so when you try to ask questions or hand in assignments via e-mail you are met with "I got 200 students I can't keep track" and you lose out.
You can delete but it takes something like 15-30 days for them to process it. The moment I chose to delete my FB account, my account was hacked and spammed messages to my friends. I then had to go through the password recovery to get my account back so I could re-deactivate it.
This is actually the exact topic I CONSTANTLY argue with friends over. Basically as someone who tried the whole college thing, and thought it was just an over paid day care, then taught myself.
I have this argument because the schools, parents, books, learning materials basically have told them "once I have this piece of paper, the world falls at my feet".
The BIGGEST one I have found for this is "graphic design" majors. I know probably 8-10 just graduating or graduated. The new businesses are opening, I get constant messages trying to drum up business.
Then a few months later they are working at the local grocery store. Even friends with teaching degrees, engineers are working there.
It's basically the college/university feeding the student the bull so they can justify the 10k tuition they are charging.
I had this happen to me several times, employers or possible employers attempting to view me on Facebook. I actually had to change my public settings to private. They attempted to reprimand me because on a friday I called in sick to go to a concert (they wouldn't give a vacation day) and found out because of photos and comments on Facebook.
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I'm not surprised one bit by this. I worked for Sprint/Nextel and we were told the same thing about phones with known issues. We were told "if they don't ask, don't tell" then pressure us into selling those exact same phones to customers (they put the higher bonuses on those phones for agents). It was very shady.
It's not a song and dance. All my years going through school, the best learning (example of math) was the teacher explaining the concept, giving examples, then giving you 1/2 the period to work on an assignment. If you got stuck, he was there to answer. The difficulty with College/University is Tech, and Power Point for sure. The teacher zips through 50+ slides then lets you out early, when you go to do an assignment at home, if you don't get it, you are pretty much hoping to find him in his office or through email to set up an appointment. Most of the time they don't reply to e-mails, and state "I have 200 students I don't have time". If I wanted to learn with "Tech" like Power Point, I would be doing online courses or classes from afar. I'm paying thousands of dollars to attend school and have them teach me my future career. My last year of College teachers were more concerned with the new construction, their vacations, or the possible strike and if they got a raise.
I disagree completely. Do you know how difficult it is to learn a trade, or to enter a computer field etc when you are tossed into a HUGE room and a teacher flies through powerpoints (on average 50+ in 1 hour) while he goes "ya you don't need this" or "you'll understand that when you do the lab. I personally dislike technology such as Power Point used at the school. It's so impersonal, and the teacher flies through it because he's presented this course 100 times. Where if a teacher has to talk, he knows he is boring people and tries to make it interesting. Then again, 75% of these Power Point teachers don't check their e-mail so when you try to ask questions or hand in assignments via e-mail you are met with "I got 200 students I can't keep track" and you lose out.
You can delete but it takes something like 15-30 days for them to process it. The moment I chose to delete my FB account, my account was hacked and spammed messages to my friends. I then had to go through the password recovery to get my account back so I could re-deactivate it.
This is actually the exact topic I CONSTANTLY argue with friends over. Basically as someone who tried the whole college thing, and thought it was just an over paid day care, then taught myself. I have this argument because the schools, parents, books, learning materials basically have told them "once I have this piece of paper, the world falls at my feet". The BIGGEST one I have found for this is "graphic design" majors. I know probably 8-10 just graduating or graduated. The new businesses are opening, I get constant messages trying to drum up business. Then a few months later they are working at the local grocery store. Even friends with teaching degrees, engineers are working there. It's basically the college/university feeding the student the bull so they can justify the 10k tuition they are charging.
I had this happen to me several times, employers or possible employers attempting to view me on Facebook. I actually had to change my public settings to private. They attempted to reprimand me because on a friday I called in sick to go to a concert (they wouldn't give a vacation day) and found out because of photos and comments on Facebook.