[150 days of final indulgence]
It's day 122. I just finished my User Experience class at a digital school, some errands, and my super late dinner. Despite being exhausted, I don't seem to have the will to sleep, partly because I don't want to (just yet) but mostly because I still have some reading to catch up and I'm procrastinating.
I'm sure a lot of university students question the value of getting a degree at one point or another in their 4 years of studies. "What's the point of even studying this when my future career doesn't require it?" Questions like this are such a cliche yet so true.
I hate the whole "get a degree that gets you a career to get a good life" narrative because I think it's so dated and misleading, as if universities are supposed to pick up the role of vocational schools.
For the most part, I think that universities have become a safety net, which is fair when no one really knew what they wanted to do when they were 18-year-old. And the good old narrative clearly suggests this perception.
Paradoxically, I find that universities have sometimes become the scapegoat of unemployability, presumably because we somehow expect scholars to equip us with top skills that the job market is looking for.
If anything, UBC has taught me how to think critically, as expected. I've known myself better and I've learnt the importance of prioritizing work (note, not the technique of it but the value of it). And as I'm getting closer to graduation, I seem to have a better sense of what I want do.
While it's debatable that whether universities are relevant to getting a career, I think it's important to recognize what higher education really is and isn't. It's silly to take it as a means to an end when it is an end in itself.
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