What is going on? have people lost their minds?

applejack
Sun, 13 May 2012 21:21:06 +0000

Wong tong - I’m not an engineer or in medicine, so take this with a grain of salt, but I had the same experience with academia. It’s not Cornell; it’s just how the entire system is structured. It rewards mediocre thinking by people who are deemed smart because they can just spit back what they’re told or, at most, figure out problems within the parameters of the question and prescribed answer. This forum is full of those people and I worry about their ability to thrive in the modern economy. Their skill-set seems far more suited to the 20th century.