I graduated two and a half years ago with a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts.
It is my opinion that the system just doesn't work. Teachers don't know how to teach and the whole system needs to be re-structured. I'll give you an example...
At UMass, I despised physics. The teachers were horrible and they don't teach how it relates to Computer Science. I think there should be a physics class just for those in computer science, for example. That way, students become really interested in it because they see how it directly relates to their field of interest. For example, they should teach how electricity makes communication possible; how electrons are what computers rely on to pass information to other systems. If they had done this, I definitely would have been more interested in it, instead of memorizing stupid formulas.
Now, two years after being out of school, I love physics!! I've been reading books about electricity and I find everything very interesting. School actually made me hate a lot of things instead of making me learn them.
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