Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Can’t really blame her. The education system is everything but.
She shouldn’t be in any university. This barely qualifies as high school literature. Can’t expect an absolute buffoon of an amateur to perform well in the pro-league.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 days ago
Seriously, what is this essay nonsense? I could have written something better in my second language in 5 minutes. Do you get graded on this crap at Uni in the US? Cause if so the American Education system is even worse off than I had already assumed.
nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It was probably intended to serve, at some level, as proof they’d read the article and to get students to organize their thoughts and opinions before a followup discussion.
I hope.
(If you just mean do you get graded on this crap referencing her actual essay… then, yes. You do get graded on it. And she got the proper grade.)
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s worse than you could possibly imagine. No, not anymore. I went back and finished a second degree last year for a small career shift, after about a 7 year gap after finishing the first (computer science).
The first time around I was kinda butthurt that most the material was crap I already knew from experience or saw online. But there was still a focus on the fundamentals and I desperately needed help with that. 7/10 experience. Still worthwhile, albeit a little expensive for the small value gained.
Second degree, mathematics. Because my company sucks and doesn’t understand that computers and math are the same thing. Whatever, I’m not paying for it let’s do it, sister school to my old alma mater so relatively similar to what I’m expecting anyways. Didn’t learn one thing new. No requirements for papers or anything beyond elementary school tier multiple choice work packets. No missed marks for poor syntax or grammar - because math isn’t a language so kids don’t need to be formal about it apparently. The only reason I passed is because I already knew the material. And considering the other students in my program, zero amount of learning occured. 2/10 literally the most pay 2 win experience I’ve ever taken part of or seen, and I played a mobile gatcha for two years. Two points because you do still factually win somewhat after paying, but we’re very quickly approaching the point where one can’t even do that.
Tl;Dr - after getting two degrees and seeing the situation firsthand twice now, I can confidently say that no degree from any modern US university is a valid proof of knowledge and skill. Every single one of them is either pay2win garbage, or nepobaby pay2win garbage. And I was tricked into getting two of them! I didn’t even pay for the second one, and it was still a massive scam!
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It sucks you had such a bad experience with your degrees, I’m going back for a second time to college and I feel like I’m learning a ton. My first experience sucked too, I don’t know if I just got insanely lucky this time around with college choice or what.
There’s nearly a 20 year gap between my first attempt and now, and I can definitely see a difference in the other students’ essay writing abilities compared to what I saw 20 years ago. I think part of that is that my high school English classes had large segments of class time devoted only to essay writing, and based on my conversations with younger students it sounds like there’s much less emphasis on that in high school education now.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I mean, this got her a 0. It’s not considered a good essay even here.