University Has Broken My Heart
I have dreamed of coming to university since I was a young girl. From GCSEs to A-levels, you slowly begin weeding down your subject choices, narrowing them until you are left with the one subject in this world you want to dedicate the most time to studying. You strive to get good grades so you can progress to the next chapter of your education, with university being the ultimate goal — the place where you can finally thrive and enjoy your education because you are no longer forced to study subjects that don’t truly spark your interest. But then you get to university, and the concept of teaching and education begins to crumble. You now have lecturers who, although they know their subjects, are not necessarily skilled at teaching them. Every lecture, rather than being a rich learning experience, often feels like a one-hour seminar where you are guaranteed to gain perhaps twenty percent of the material, because the lecture atmosphere is no longer designed for intimate learning. You sit in...
