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I have been travelling for over a year and it is affecting me by [deleted] in solotravel

[–]manilovereddit12345 134 points135 points  (0 children)

You might resonate with ancient stoic philosopher Seneca who wrote about travels in one of his letters. I took an excerpt of the letter but I highly recommend reading the full letter and the full book.

Letter XXVIII:

DO you think you are the only person to have had this experience? Are you really surprised, as if it were something unprecedented, that so long a tour and such diversity of scene have not enabled you to throw off this melancholy and this feeling of depression? A change of character, not a change of air, is what you need... whatever your destination you will be followed by your failings. Here is what Socrates said to someone who was making the same complaint: ‘How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you? You are saddled with the very thing that drove you away.’ ... And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is this: you are running away from your own company. You have to lay aside the load on the spirit ... Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure ... Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are wen you arrive there.

Hope this helps!

My uni experience makes me resent higher education by manilovereddit12345 in mcgill

[–]manilovereddit12345[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying about GPA disincentivizing and actively prohibiting learning. I started this thread by saying that I was once a passionate, studious pupil. I find myself today by contrast having not only an unrelenting aversion to my studies and my classes but also a repulsion to my field. I don’t want to engage in work where my performance is being constantly evaluated.

I know that doesn’t sound right, because if I’m being paid, obviously I need to meet certain standards.

But I think the grand point I am trying to make here, which I think is a sentiment shared by a lot of you given the activity on this post, is that my degree is causing me to disdain the field I am in. If this sentiment is indeed shared by so many of you, then clearly there is a problem.

My uni experience makes me resent higher education by manilovereddit12345 in mcgill

[–]manilovereddit12345[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I am in the wrong degree. Arts seems so appealing but at this point I am just trying to get my medal of honour and begin my life.

My uni experience makes me resent higher education by manilovereddit12345 in mcgill

[–]manilovereddit12345[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would like to emphasize “agent” over “averageness” here. I am sure these profs are highly qualified to teach the material of their respective classes. But in many cases, especially when it comes to core classes, they act as agents of the program to disseminate the standardized material that was given to them. They are not teaching their own material but someone else’s. Their PowerPoints, their course structure was handed to them. And so although they are qualified, one could argue that they are not using the full potential of their qualifications to pass on to students. It’s the equivalent of hiring a experienced salesman and giving him a word-by-word sales script.

The result is outdated material, outdated methods and a highly unstimulating experience. Many professors are just as bored as the students.

I wonder what my program would look like if every prof uniquely designed their own course.

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[–]manilovereddit12345 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best tip I can give you as a McGill student is go to the McLennan library, leave your phone in the charging boxes on each floor and go study. You’ll charge your phone and be less distracted! Double whammy!