Learn to pass

First of all, yes I gotta vent a bit.

I study in the netherlands (bachelor) and had an internship for the past 6 months. Everything went right: teachers gave feedback and seemed satisfied, colleagues gave an advice score of 9/10 and I engineered my ass off to make a beautiful product.

The result: didnt pass due to not enough research documented. The feedback was good everytime but this small detail was lacking for the jury. This will cost me 6 months and an entire year of school fees while the school offers nothing. Im this close to having a diploma and finally earning a living but I feel like I just got shafted and there was little I could do.

It's clear to me that school is just for a paper and what you learn is hardly needed in the real world. Every company would love to have a hard working employee like myself but Im forced to abide by the logicless rules from the education system and spent another fortune and time so I can get a fine loan.

Doing everything by the book is fine and all but if the book is dated I see no point in this system. Another discussion I love to have is how you get pushed in doings things like school expects which hinders all creative spirit, but that another thing.

Tl;dr education is not preparring people for the real world, even internships have pointless rules so schools can grade you. (and they expect you to figure these rules out by yourself)

Sry for writing an unstructured wall of text but its mostly to vent a bit. Still think its a discussion and problem many educational systems should think about/deal with.

Submitted June 27, 2018 at 10:24AM by Morning_Woody https://ift.tt/2Mp2Qez