The dream spun to pretty much any teenager willing to take out a student loan is that college will be some of the best years of your life. You’re just about enough of an adult to feel like you really earned the things you can do with a fake ID, but not so grown up that you can’t wake up in a pool of your own vomit occasionally. In short, it’s sold as a place where your life can begin at last.
On top of that, though, it’s meant to be a place where you really learn things: both the tumultuous life lessons that come with getting older and the actual academic stuff that supposedly ends up making you more employable. Being college educated signifies someone that has been taught by finely tuned intellectual minds, or at least, that's what they want you to think.
As anyone who has had the experience knows, though, the quality of the education that is received can be variable. There are plenty of parts to the college learning experience that can seem just as rote as times tables, but much less useful.
However, one thing that isn’t expected is to find professors copying each other, which is a discovery that @alexandriamilk recently made. After coming across identical slides in two presentations that were for different courses, she decided that the only way forward was to submit a formal complaint to the college director.
Unsurprisingly, she wasn't alone in her experience.
It would seem like there are a number of educators out there taking the low effort route when it comes to their students. When people pay this much money for something, taking issue with this kind of thing is just the start of the problem.
However, not everyone was sure about her reaction.
It takes all kinds of students to make a college, and some would rather work smarter than harder.
Nonetheless, most shared the outrage at the realization.
Many were quick to point out the hypocrisy at play, when a student would get heavily penalized if they ever tried to do something like this with their own work. Apparently, though, it's A-OK to have them learning the exact same things twice. “After graduating college, I realized how much of a scam it is”, summarized @sierrawerries9.
Alex eventually got a response to her email.
In it, the chair of her department appeared to blame the overlap on the fact that they were currently searching for another full time instructor to take over one of the courses, as well as advising her to continue her studies as normal. “”You are paying for a full education, but we are unable to provide that to you, and there's nothing you can do about it"", mimicked @mattbakerr, just one of numerous viewers who were outraged on her behalf.
The way in which colleges can take advantage of the huge amounts of money that students pay to them is nothing short of scandalous, and it's understandable to be annoyed at an oversight as big as this. On the other hand, it gives current undergraduates all the more reason to leave their studies on the backburner to focus on the main point of these precious, pre-career years: making very stupid life decisions.
