QUOTE(quadcube @ Oct 25 2019, 01:21 AM)
TBH, whether uni can offer/can't offer, it's don't really matter too much. can't expect to be spoon fed forever right?
if uni provides sub-par edu, can't you do anything about it? why limit yourself to the syllabus "boundaries"?
expectation doesn't meet reality?
the fact is, uni is one of the best places that offers the chance to experience a small dose of reality with "safety net". what happens when you screw up a subject? lower GPA, lower CGPA, failing to meet Asian parent expectation? try having a family, loan and screw up your job.
you can be whoever you want to be in uni, you have the freedom not like primary/secondary school. fail as much as possible while you still have "safety net" because in the end, you can't blame anyone for your choices in life, certainly not your parents for not being able to give you better edu oversea, etc.
I did my EEE in IPTA, as you mentioned, shitty syllabus, lecturers, labs, etc. heck, 90% of my classes are in non-aircond with maybe 3 working fan out of 10.
I can complain about everything under the sun until I graduate right, so little effort needed, just whine.
Well, I can whine all I want and it doesn't change a thing.
for example, in order to get the air-conditioned "environment" that I wanted, I had to worked my way up, joined competitions, represented MY at one point, giving 110% for course projects, which of course the main aim was to play the academic politic to have enough credential to start demanding for shit such as 24/7 lab access with split unit AC, equipments, network to run my own server cluster, etc.
course syllabus look boring or probably useless in the "real" world? Take on projects, self-learn EE design and best practices and supply solutions whether to seniors for their FYP, factory owner need automation solutions, etc. I also learned how to deal with PCB, PCBA production and by the time I graduated, >500 ppl worldwide have my design on their desk as their daily driver. Now, learning theories makes a lot of sense, as real world problems require those fundamental knowledge, e.g. filters, Fourier, EM, HV, etc.
of course, not everything is cherry and roses, I made compromises (having friend/junior do my homework, screw up my grades, etc.), bad decisions (fk up so badly that my lecturers were worried that I would jump off the roof LOL) but hey, I made my choices whenever I can, and I'll also live up to the consequences (berani buat berani tanggung). You can afford to make so much bad choices/fail in uni and in the end, you will still graduate. heck, most of those failures doesn't really affect your employability in general, but compared to your average peers, the experiences gained is much richer than wake up, go to class, come home play computer games, sleep and graduate.
take responsibility of your own damn future and stop following the "flow" naively (get good grade so you can get into good uni -> get good CGPA so you can get good job -> graduate and hit the reality wall? Doesn't it sound familiar?)
if u expect changes in MY uni education, show tangible results and lecturers will start noticing the differences and make changes to their syllabus. Of course, you might also earn "asshole senior" title for making the syllabus "harder"
For me I'm in IPTS, some what minimum barebones labs one.
Well, to challenge myself with my friends I think competitions are the way to go, just that really, hardly know where to start , without a proper way to get informed by advertising [that's always a problem for us].
We been looking for suitable challenges and deadlines to fit our schedule since Year 2 to Year 3 now.
But so far I would say all the timing we are looking for, aren't the best schedule, also not many actual lecturers want to handle us la.
We so far only found out Maxis/Keysights IoT Challenge, (which was way out of our league in terms of programming and database collection skills with the provided platforms for us to use), RoboCon Malaysia (too expensive faculty won't pitch in). Resources, Knowledge and Budget is really a constraint on our side.
For me, I personally really lost on actually what industry I actually wanted to join.
I am no idea what I'm interested, and not interested, aside from syllabus level.
Especially in what this industry in Malaysia actually offers to us Malaysians.
And hearing from feedback from my seniors, they said mostly focused on Manufacturing rather investing in R&D.
Giving me an impression of "High Paid Technician" rather than an Engineer that actually innovates.
Well, hopefully I can start to see things through, and try to take control on what areas to explore in EEE.
Do tell me what fields you are currently working with. And mind giving me a better idea of this industry.
Or what useful programming language, that I should take a challenge on?
Also, for me, I've picked the private university because they accepted me for my bad Pre-U grades, I've lost my scholarship after few semesters after some personal and financial related issues, and forced to work my way up again in Engineering in a mid range IPTA university.
I'm taking responsibilities in my grades, hence seeing my results mostly paid off. Most of my semesters are A A- with my full efforts trying to understand what's actually happening in class.
I personally don't want to afford anymore failures, as I really wanted to aim for that PTPTN Exemption to pay off my tuition fees bills and not hold accountable to debt once graduated. To lighten my parents and my own shoulders.
But I've nearly relapsed into my personal issues during my Year 2, and struggled with problematic soul-less lecturers in a particular semester, which that semester I received a massive drop to nearly failing a lecturer subject that semester, while getting moderates Bs for the other two subjects.
Abit derailed there, but not knowing what's the next step really just worries me.
There's always risks in every action we takes. Just that I'm trying my best not to fall and drown myself, while getting hurt and learn in the process.