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What did the crab do?
Why do you go to uni?
(If you're going to vote, vote now because the below may change your opinions or thoughts about your own objectives...)
A recent psychology essay got me thinking about peoples' desires, and what they're looking for, and the long term/short term costs and benefits... It pretty much directly started talking about peoples' objectives, and whether it's to appear as something (which they're not really), or to really be and change into that something.
From there, reading the posts on here, and talking to people and remembering the HSC, education is largely about receiving marks for work done: once the marks are received, how much do we --or the educational system-- really care about whether we learn the content or not? Marks are an indicator of a 'learned' person, who, say, comes out of uni with a degree an a GPA of X, but do they still know and remember and apply and understand that knowledge? ...if not, they got fantastic marks in the short term, but the long term costs are that they're not really as knoledgable (and presumably employable) as their records/transcript suggests... which leads to career problems.
But then, you can have what the psych literature called 'learnign orientation': you want to learn, and apply, and integrate all your future knowledge into the knowledge you've now got, which is an integration of yesterday's learning, etc etc... all of which is done not with regard to marks, but to your personal learning... (but the marks follow, becuase you're learning in appropriate areas). However, obviously this has short term costs (a lot more work than, say, trying to second-guess that final exam essay question, or working out strategies to skimp on studying...), but has long term gains (much more knowledge, and all the things that flow from that).
So, essentially, I'm curious: why do you go to uni? To get your degree, or to learn new things?
(If you're going to vote, vote now because the below may change your opinions or thoughts about your own objectives...)
A recent psychology essay got me thinking about peoples' desires, and what they're looking for, and the long term/short term costs and benefits... It pretty much directly started talking about peoples' objectives, and whether it's to appear as something (which they're not really), or to really be and change into that something.
From there, reading the posts on here, and talking to people and remembering the HSC, education is largely about receiving marks for work done: once the marks are received, how much do we --or the educational system-- really care about whether we learn the content or not? Marks are an indicator of a 'learned' person, who, say, comes out of uni with a degree an a GPA of X, but do they still know and remember and apply and understand that knowledge? ...if not, they got fantastic marks in the short term, but the long term costs are that they're not really as knoledgable (and presumably employable) as their records/transcript suggests... which leads to career problems.
But then, you can have what the psych literature called 'learnign orientation': you want to learn, and apply, and integrate all your future knowledge into the knowledge you've now got, which is an integration of yesterday's learning, etc etc... all of which is done not with regard to marks, but to your personal learning... (but the marks follow, becuase you're learning in appropriate areas). However, obviously this has short term costs (a lot more work than, say, trying to second-guess that final exam essay question, or working out strategies to skimp on studying...), but has long term gains (much more knowledge, and all the things that flow from that).
So, essentially, I'm curious: why do you go to uni? To get your degree, or to learn new things?
Go the "learnign orientation"! 
