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lunedì, ottobre 12, 2009

Again and again about my Degree

Again on the University in Italy. What I try to repeat to all the people I know is that the figures concerning the dispersion/abandon of the students subscribed at the degree of Electronic Engineering in Padua you cannot find them in any other countries.
Less than one out of three students subscribed to Electronic Engineer has completed his studies and achieved the diploma, the average number of years taken to complete the degree was 8,5 years against the legal 5.
Therefore I consider the faculty of Engineering in Padua one of the most difficult and challenging course of study in the world.
Having said that I do not pretend to say that this course is better than what there is in another countries just I want to highlight that it doesn't make sense to compare degree between different countries if you don't take in account these figures. In Ireland, just to give you an example, students achieve their degree at their first 20, and during their studies they have a lot of fun, parties, sports, and so on. In Minsk I know a girl which at the age of 25 has already had three specialization in Medicine, and she was able to work at the same time, almost the same for another girl from there which I know.
Does it make sense having spent the best years all my life to studying such complex mathematical theorems? Of course, no it doesn't at least for the job I am doing, which is most important to have a fluent English and to be smart in programming, all topics which I didn't study in my degree.
So what? I cannot come back unfortunately, I have waste many years and money, I could have start working at the age of 23, 24 as it has happened for many of my colleagues. You know what was the error at that time, to believe that the there wasn't any other world, academic world, outside that fucking DEI in Padua. I was thinking that to achieve the degree in electronic engineer was the only possibility to achieve a job as engineer, but I was wrong. Engineer...everyone is engineer in the companies where I have been working, I have meet Indian test engineers aged 21, that's so strange, what was I doing at my 21?
Hope to not having come back to this topic again, I am so fed up to justify this, of course I am proud to having surpassed all those obstacles but for what?

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