Useless education

Studying by notashamed

I was thinking of all of the useless courses I had taken in my life and realized that I have studied lots of really useless subjects. I am sad that I never got a chance to do real research work or was allowed to be creative or bold enough and come up with new ideas. University was not challenging enough I guess. I spent most of my lectures doodling or sitting way back reading other books or playing games.

The classification of species. A friend of mine pointed this out, we both went on to study engineering so we were both wondering why we had to know about the animal kingdoms so much.
Economics at University. I was excited to study Economics but it turned out all about depreciation of value of whatever you buy. We never even got a chance to read about the theories of economics or the different philosophies.
So many math courses. I am sure there was a reason for having to study more math courses than any of the other majors but I still don’t see the relevance of all the differentiation and integration rules to life. Had I known that, I would not have taken O. Level, AS Level and A. Level Math in my IGCSEs.
Artificial Intelligence. Another course which I was very excited to take but was bummed out by the way it was taught.
Cathodic Protection. Seriously why would anyone need to learn how that works unless you are actually going to do it. The funny thing was that I ended up working with someone on software for calculations of cathodic protection, but I could have figured it out on my own without having to waste a whole semester studying it.
Environmental Studies (AKA Bee2a). I am just as passionate about the environment as the next person and think we really need to help preserve it and save it. Again, the way it was taught was a complete waste of time.

Things I wish I had a chance to study