> describing feeling "devastated" when they can't crack a few questions in an important exam they thought they'd studied appropriately
maybe the expectations are too high?
You are a student, it's in the name, you don't know stuff because you are learning.
Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.
School is called school for a reason.
Once you finish school you realize how easy school was compared to real life problems, that sometimes have no easy solution or no solution at all, no matter how hard you try.
If an exam makes you feel emotionally devasted, what will happen when life throws life/death problems at you?
Maybe it's a matter of re-balancing priorities and not putting so much pressure on yourself, life doesn't end for a failed exam.
Maybe it's not exams that are too hard, it's the system that is pressuring students to finish as soon as possible, because it costs them so much, that the risk of going bankrupt it's too high, some form of sunk cost fallacy at play.
OTOH, in that system, who would pay premium rates for a lesser education where exams are so easy that anybody can pass them?
I started working at the age of 19, full time (6 hours a day/ 5days a week), while also studying at university and paying for my bills.
I still believe exams where the easiest part of the process, the bureaucracy it's what was killing me.
And I feel I have to specify that I am in no way a genius, I was just an average student with a soft spot for CS problems, meaning I liked solving them, not that I had it particularly easy.
Ah why didn't you reply to that comment? This just looks like you're misquoting the tweet thread.
> Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.
Why are you assuming I'm American?
As for the rest, I wouldn't bring this up otherwise but since you went there - I started university at seventeen, worked full time in a pub from when I turned 18 and then had to work two jobs in my final year, I've also suffered close relatives dying and a best friend committing suicide. And yet I can still understand that other people could be in circumstances that really push them to describe being "emotionally devastated" without going through all or even some of that. You're showing a (performative?) lack of empathy here.
> the bureaucracy it's what was killing me
"If a university bureacracy was killing you then what will happen life throws life/death problems at you?" - see how silly that sounds?
> Ah why didn't you reply to that comment? This just looks like you're misquoting the tweet thread.
I dind't?
I'm sorry I did not notice.
can the moderators move it in the right place, please?
> Why are you assuming I'm American?
Because it's an easy guess here and it's the system the article talks about.
> And yet I can still understand that other people could be in circumstances that really push them to describe being "emotionally devastated"
I honestly don't.
Like I hear people saying they are emotionally devasted when their soccer team loses a match, but that's not what being emotionally devasted is, that's how some people describe it. It's called hyperbole.
> "If a university bureacracy was killing you then what will happen life throws life/death problems at you?" - see how silly that sounds?
Textbook non sequitur.
I feel the same way about bureacracy now.
But, if I could, I'd still chose bureacracy over life/death problems every time and also I would keep failing very hard exams if I could, studying like crazy, instead.
here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421487
On exam day you are just emotionally devastated
> describing feeling "devastated" when they can't crack a few questions in an important exam they thought they'd studied appropriately
maybe the expectations are too high?
You are a student, it's in the name, you don't know stuff because you are learning.
Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.
School is called school for a reason.
Once you finish school you realize how easy school was compared to real life problems, that sometimes have no easy solution or no solution at all, no matter how hard you try.
If an exam makes you feel emotionally devasted, what will happen when life throws life/death problems at you?
Maybe it's a matter of re-balancing priorities and not putting so much pressure on yourself, life doesn't end for a failed exam.
Maybe it's not exams that are too hard, it's the system that is pressuring students to finish as soon as possible, because it costs them so much, that the risk of going bankrupt it's too high, some form of sunk cost fallacy at play.
OTOH, in that system, who would pay premium rates for a lesser education where exams are so easy that anybody can pass them?
I started working at the age of 19, full time (6 hours a day/ 5days a week), while also studying at university and paying for my bills.
I still believe exams where the easiest part of the process, the bureaucracy it's what was killing me.
And I feel I have to specify that I am in no way a genius, I was just an average student with a soft spot for CS problems, meaning I liked solving them, not that I had it particularly easy.