Comment university life (Score 1) 384
If you're coming from a company environment, you may find yourself in for a bit of a shock (your university may vary).
The bureaucrats are political parasites. The faculty are egomaniacs. You are their meat puppet and when something goes wrong, and it will, when there is any blame to be shared you are the paper-towel boy to soak it up.
You can be brilliant, and carve yourself a nitch in a rare environment, or get bitter. You'll see lots of bitter employees and they'll want you to join the club. They're your peers, and if you're brilliant you're going to make them look bad. Its a micky-mouse club with rat teeth and knives in the dark, depending on your coworkers.
If it were a business, it would be dead. Nothing in any other environment could survive that much incompetence, miss that many deadlines, or be so far over budget that you could smile at the end and call it a success. Some days you're not going to have high expectations, your expectations are going to be so low that you're going to trip over it dragging your feet.
Set against that post-apocolyptic world, there are a few rebel groups trying to make a difference. For computers, that will probably be CSCI, hard sciences (math, chem) or business. They probably won't have much of a budget, but they're probably doing something cool & trendy and it is greasing the wheels.
Find that wave and surf it.
The bureaucrats are political parasites. The faculty are egomaniacs. You are their meat puppet and when something goes wrong, and it will, when there is any blame to be shared you are the paper-towel boy to soak it up.
You can be brilliant, and carve yourself a nitch in a rare environment, or get bitter. You'll see lots of bitter employees and they'll want you to join the club. They're your peers, and if you're brilliant you're going to make them look bad. Its a micky-mouse club with rat teeth and knives in the dark, depending on your coworkers.
If it were a business, it would be dead. Nothing in any other environment could survive that much incompetence, miss that many deadlines, or be so far over budget that you could smile at the end and call it a success. Some days you're not going to have high expectations, your expectations are going to be so low that you're going to trip over it dragging your feet.
Set against that post-apocolyptic world, there are a few rebel groups trying to make a difference. For computers, that will probably be CSCI, hard sciences (math, chem) or business. They probably won't have much of a budget, but they're probably doing something cool & trendy and it is greasing the wheels.
Find that wave and surf it.
