I did my undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering. After four years of blood and sweat (roughly translated to binging on Netflix and putting on weight), I passed with above-average marks. My family was proud, so were my teachers. I got two jobs right out of university and I swore NEVER to do something like this again.
Then when I got into working, suddenly I just realized. I am starting off being trained. I wanted to ask, “What, in the name of everything good and bad, do you think I spent all this money on for the past 4 years, that you have trained me again??”. Why was I not enough, fresh out of uni, all ready and prepped up?? The truth eluded me for the next couple of years and only when I thought I might be ready for a career progression (translated to more 💰💰💰) did I find the answer.
No university, however prestigious and amazing, can ever prepare you for a life working a job. As a software engineer, I was not trained to code in the latest languages in university. Rather I was told what was the oldest programming language. I was told how logic can be applied if given an opportunity. And it took me three months of training with the company to know what exactly is being done today. I was told to unlearn and relearn.
With everything going on in this world, it is and will always be difficult for every university to keep up with the changes. Organizations and corporations will try to keep up because of the competition. but it is up to each one of us to stay on track. No matter when all we have to do is be ready to learn. Sometimes, learning something new might mean forgetting or refuting something we believed to be right all the time. Open-mindedness is the only savior here.
