Gotten intrigued first thing Monday...
Being a university student nowadays is tough work. Not only do you have to ensure that on top of your excessive partying you're passing all your courses and making it on time to lectures and tutorials you also have to make sure you're getting everything done online. Not only do you have work to prepare for lectures and assignments to hand in for tutorials you also have a ridiculous amount of surveys, quizzes and material to browse through online!There are pros to everything being online of course, if you miss a lecture you don't need to grovel at the feet of a friend for lecture notes but at the same time it inspires lazy habits as you tend to dismiss the importance of attending lectures seeing as everything you need is at your fingertips. I'll admit, I've been guilty of missing a lecture because of this reason and it isn't exactly comforting knowing I've fallen for that trap.
Mainly, getting used to it is a university subject in itself. I probably missed out on most of my course material in my first semester because I didn't have an inkling of it even existing! With hundreds of links and the pressure of keeping up with what was said in lectures to begin with I don't understand how universities seem to think this benefits students. It's a cumbersome system and is unreasonably responsible for a large chunk of our grade. If critics were skeptical of the academic system before I'm sure now they're even more flustered and more willing to push for the abolition or reform of education overall.
Am I being too old fashioned (and wingey) or do I have a valid point?
