I finally checked the old musty cupboard and packed Tertiary education projects, assignments, notes and textbooks. I couldn’t believe I learnt all that – most of the stuff were given back to the lecturers! So much of them were theories and concepts.
People say that what you learn in college or uni is not applicable in working life. Most of that is true really.
I felt sayang to throw away the books – so much effort went into notes taking, drawing charts, DFD, ERD, even found several thick stacks of written programming, manuals for VB, MS Word and Excel (which I didn’t know I had them ahha), etc. What seemed soo easy now was sometimes confusing and hard then. If I need to refer to any coding, I can just find it on the internet – online resources are so much better than textbooks and assignments coding anyway! But if I keep them.. they would be just sitting there in the hidden corner. So might as well recycle/donate them.
I’m still keeping the printed version of Degree project and several subjects that I loved. No C++ and C! Bye bye! Perl is ok but PHP is better :D When I was studying XML and Java, they were hyped to be the next IT language. Right now, it’s true. It was also said that there would be no more upgrade on HTML yet so many of us are still using HTML :) Somehow a lot of companies are still using COBOL and UNIX, especially banks.
If I could change the education, it’s to include other essential subjects -
- people management
- presentation (yeah, everyday present something till we can give seminars and earn big $$)
- social etiquette – eating at McD’s different from fine dining, special events
- financial management (investment, creation, savings, usage)
- entrepenuership – maybe a Entrepenuer Day each month where students sell things and learn to build and operate a small business
- fixing car/bike/bicycle
- critical thinking, open minded debate on our culture and history
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