Fuck AI

I agree 100%. My friends, peers, and I all wasted huge amounts of time during our undergrad degree,and to varying extents even in post-graduate degrees, fulfilling the university's "one size fits all" curriculum standards.

I spent hundreds of hours sitting in lecture over nearly a decade. I DO NOT learn well from oral instruction but still was graded on attendance. I did homework far in excess of that required to learn and practice the material. I wasted so much time that I could have achieved two degrees with less work if I had been allowed to primarily self-direct how I learned.

Even the common advice to "read the material, then confirm understanding in lecture" was of little use. I'd sometimes get called out in smaller classes for not paying attention if I tried to do other work, so I just sat there and daydreamed.