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Greek universities are notorious for over-covering the student's needs for theoretical knowledge and lacking severely in applied knowledge.
In an effort to change my immediate environment more to my liking, I have started, with a friend of mine, an Electronics Club, withing the university boundaries.
We 've been operating for almost a year now, and numbers were sadly low. Only 3 members out of a 1000+ student base attend the weekly meetings and pursue a project.
So, last week, we tried something different. I posted a poll on Facebook and the busy school forum with 6 possible lecture subjects. 3 practical (sensor calibration etc) and 3 purely theoretical.
70 people in total voted for a week. 32 declared that they preferred "The life of a project: from the idea to the product". Too theoretical for my liking, but okay, that's what the people want.
I sit for 7 hours, writing a 2000 word, half hour lecture, with a 30 slide accompanying presentation and even rehearse it.
Do you know how many people showed up? 0. 0! ZERO!
Except for the 3 people that came to continue building their project and didn't need to listen to it anyway.
I really cannot understand how an EE student doesn't want to get involved in projects and designing/building procedures. I 'm starting to feel resentment and irritation towards my university environment and I include the whole of it, both students, professors and other involved members.
Of course there are exceptions and I 'm glad I know them, but they can't compensate.
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Greek universities are notorious for over-covering the student's needs for theoretical knowledge and lacking severely in applied knowledge.
In an effort to change my immediate environment more to my liking, I have started, with a friend of mine, an Electronics Club, withing the university boundaries.
We 've been operating for almost a year now, and numbers were sadly low. Only 3 members out of a 1000+ student base attend the weekly meetings and pursue a project.
So, last week, we tried something different. I posted a poll on Facebook and the busy school forum with 6 possible lecture subjects. 3 practical (sensor calibration etc) and 3 purely theoretical.
70 people in total voted for a week. 32 declared that they preferred "The life of a project: from the idea to the product". Too theoretical for my liking, but okay, that's what the people want.
I sit for 7 hours, writing a 2000 word, half hour lecture, with a 30 slide accompanying presentation and even rehearse it.
Do you know how many people showed up? 0. 0! ZERO!
Except for the 3 people that came to continue building their project and didn't need to listen to it anyway.
I really cannot understand how an EE student doesn't want to get involved in projects and designing/building procedures. I 'm starting to feel resentment and irritation towards my university environment and I include the whole of it, both students, professors and other involved members.
Of course there are exceptions and I 'm glad I know them, but they can't compensate.
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