So long story short. I am a STEM student and in my 4th and last year. And what you need to know about my program is that it has a really bad effort to degree worth ratio. You know there are a lot of such degrees in STEM. My program has been real harsh on me for almost every year I had so far including this one. With rare periods of rest. Very demanding in multiple different fields. So I’ve studied my ass off constantly. It took a toll on my personal life and personal life of many of my classmates. I am talking time with family, relationships, hands on experience, my social skills. You name it all. Also I have noticed that people who have way shorter or more “free” STEM degrees have moved on to good jobs and other things in their lives. In fact I think I am the only one of my circle who still does this thing where I spend an entire day doing my Bachelor’s work and assignments. It feels like it doesn’t bring anything good to me anymore. I rather feel like I should just escape this whole thing. Troughout all of this whole thing I couldn’t but develop some quite negative feelings towards the whole “study hard and push for it” and “we need more STEM students we need mroe math and this and that” society is pushing for these days. My question is: is it still even work it do do these 4+ year hellish STEM degrees and study so much? And if not why are people who themselves have no idea of what these are push others to do these so hard. I mean teachers, parents, companies… Why would we fuck people up so hard if you can just give a bucnh of people a test. Give the ones who pass a job a laptop a list of things to do. Teach them along the way and probably get the same employee as somebody with the degree because at the end of the day it is always what they do off studies what defins their competence?
