Hi, Steemit!
Next year I will graduate from the university. And it's time to decide where to go.
Practice makes perfect. But I know, what is lack of practice.
I wish to continue my education, but not in theory. Yet, we study a lot of theory, but don't know how to apply it. I guess, it is an obligation of the university to show us, how to use knowledge practically, but, unfortunatelly, in my country, higher education is very old-fashioned and immobile.
Teachers give us outdated imformation, books are of USSR times, and we have no real practice.
Just for you to understand the situation is a little exmaple: in the course of computer technologies we have learned how to create e-mail and use ICQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and skype!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!!!!!!!!!! I asked myself, what am I doing here?!
In European and USA universities there are labs, and investigations are made there. In our country they even don't exist.
The only way to learn smth useful is to do it in another place: whether Internet or meet-ups, conferences, hacatones, job.
I have regreted a lot, that didn't leave to another uni, not in Belarus, but hope to correct this mistake next year in master programm.
So I wanted to ask you, Steemers, maybe you could tell me about the way you get practice during studying? How to find people, from whom you could learn? Maybe you know any programms, or unis, where such people lecture?
I would be very much obliged to you!