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- CDoug03, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Spoiler Alert: Get off the internet, turn off your TV, and work your ass off at whatever it is you want to be. And don't give up after the first time you fail.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Almost none of what you learn in college will be obsolete by the time you graduate. The only thing that goes obsolete is simple technical skills and not the understanding of core concepts.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Blogger? lol
- DaBrainiac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Please stop using the term 2.0. Thanks.
- acetv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Considering I'm a math major, I'd be extremely surprised if much of what I'm learning now is obsolete by the time I graduate.
- celeb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5For the love of god PLEASE stop using 2.0 for EVERYTHING!
- vidalsasoon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5please 2.0
- ddxChrist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4All-you-can-eat? More like as-much-as-you-can-tolerate. As for the article, it seems pretty random and useless. The only classes that will be obsolete for me are the random requirements that hinder my exploration of the sciences.
- antiver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3School teaches you how to think, not much else. If you learn that lesson, you're set for life.
- ultrawhat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I hate Everything 2.0. But hey, the article was good anyway.
- cmezak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I have to say: What's with this assumed equivalence of education and career training. I know that it's important to prepare for the realities of living in a capitalist society, but there is (or should be) a LOT more to an education than simply prepping you to go out there are whore your time/energy/creativity.
As a college student, I'm unhappy with the almost exclusive emphasis placed upon career training. - msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As a comp sci major, I feel I've recieved almost no career training at all. Looking at job postings, everything wants 3+ years specialization in a commercial app most professors have never heard of, much less taught to any students. I know lots of theory and math, which will be lifelong skills, but aren't buzzwords you can put on the resume to fill some stupid demands of an applicant, regardless of your capablities. Companies want cookie cutter applicants they don't have to train at all, it seems.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In the real world, excel won't work except for basic financial calculations.
- jdoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you want to be an excel monkey for the rest of your life then that is fine. If you want to conduct negotiations and meetings with clients on a face to face basis then you will know how to use your financial calculator.
- brad3378, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2New & Improved!
Web 2.1 - siekosunfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Even better is when employers want something outrageous, such as 15 years of experience with .Net despite it only being out since 2002. A good majority of the time, companies hire non-technical people to do applicant screening, along with preliminary interviewing, when those individuals are not suited to judge the capabilities of all the applicants. These are the individuals that filter out your resume if you don't have the relevant buzzwords, since they aren't required to have a deep insight. Companies are now finding that it's important to place people with relevant experience in the screening/interviewing positions and let the HR employees stay busy with other tasks.
A good majority of the time, however, experience and education, but mainly your connections, are really the keys to a lot of positions. Take advantage of internships while you're still in school, check to see if a professor is working on research that might interest you (a publication or two as an undergrad, even as a co-author, can really help), work on additional, large projects to really show your understanding of a particular area, and definitely keep in touch with your colleagues and professors. A lot of times, companies want to see that you know how to do more than what's the baseline requirement; however the biggest factor is the fact that you were referred to them by someone that they hold in high regard or from someone internal to the company. - bootle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2All-you-can-eat cafeteria food? What college did THEY go to? I remember sneaking in through backdoors, coloring in your 12-meal / week card to make it look like 15 meals. They ruled that food with an iron fist.
- yatoobin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Given the current state of the economy and the government's attitude towards its citizens, how about burger flipper, Walmart greeter, and panhandler?
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No one is going to take your advice, you know.
Obviously you're not making real money if you think you make it with song and dance. Who do you give career advice to, poptarts and wannabe jocks? - LADIESCREVICE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The phrase "education 2.0" insults humanity.
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I wanted to work in IT, so I just spent as much time on the internet as possible, and then working my ass off at whatever computer gig I could get.
You don't get a technical job if you have to have someone educate you all the time. You have to work and learn fast, and the only thing that helps with that is experience.
So go get some. You won't learn how to make a million dollars from a professor who obviously hasn't if he's still teaching. - gtluke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i took a course in Qbasic as a filler class sophmore year when i was in college like 7 years ago, it was the most useful class i've taken to date, and was horribly out dated even when i took it.
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What the article is telling you is that whimsical studying of the sciences doesn't guarantee a practical job in the real world.
Getting practical experience doing something that is viable as a career does. - joelav22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I really hope education 2.0 tells kids they should NEVER make anything else ever a point-O. Also, it should teach them not to bother reading stuff just because some douche can type it in a blog.
Oh, and also saying "Blog" will get you detention, having one will get you a principal endorsed swirly
Digg me down blog lovers!!!! ("omg, what are you talking about, the internets loves hearing my unsubstantiated speculative opinions!! You are totally wrong hater-man") - manicallday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm just happy about the lawyer sections. I'm starting my own firm when I graduate. I just got to figure out a way to make sure that I get my loot up front.
- kaiserh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Somehow, new graduates in India are qualified.
- alamster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2just know Ophthalmologist, I think dentist more famous :-)
- RJBEG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What? No news this month at wired? I could written this barf, sitting on the can.
Here's another Job 2.0 for your Future 2.0... while I pick my nose... uuuh... become a Junkfood Chef, yeah yeah, because there's always going to be someone willing to eat any old crap their served!
No seriously, not really worth much, but I dig it for ***** and grins. - bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually make your client money so that they can pay you. Instead of dragging out the case and then billing your broke client, who's suing because, well, he's broke.
- mrroarke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Definitely "none of the above." If you want to make real money and aren't inheriting it, you'd better sing, dance, act or play ball.
- JavionSwasey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
- SpykerSpeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yep, if you really want to learn something go to a library and interview people who already do it for a living. When you teach yourself you never forget.
- siekosunfire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The theoretical methods might not change, but the programming mechanisms to achieve the result will change. There are a whole slew of fields that are ripe for this sort of thing, such as General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) programming, which offer teraflop performance, for SLI-configured systems, at a fraction of the cost of multi-core systems. There are multiple institutions, such as Stanford, UM, etc., that are looking at distributed GPGPU systems for particle, physics, medical, etc. simulations (Folding@Home comes to mind), along with several corporate entities, such as D E Shaw & Co.
- juliusctw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Here is my opinion on what education 3.0 should be like
http://iamar.chieh.googlepages.com/essaysoneducation - felicas83, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0good article, very good point of view of carrers that can succeed on the future!!!
- futureteg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0it may not be obsolete..but the method of getting the answer probably is. I don't know much about math jobs...but my guess...you'll be sitting behind a computer using a program to do your work..instead of a calculator
- futureteg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0it may not be obsolete but chances are you won't ever use it. Example...in classes they pound into you to use the financial calculator for everything. But in the real world...you only use Excel...so wouldn't it make more sense to teach people how to use Excle flawlessly...instead of teaching them a 20 step way on how to solve it on the calculator?
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