Waddling in the baby pool

I should be running statistics and doing analysis for my marketing project. But it’s just not going forward.

It’s extremely irritating when nothing concrete can be done about it, because all the statistics that I would need to make any meaningful conclusion from the survey results is just too postgraduate-difficult for lousy undergrads like us – it’s not taught. Then why are we doing this? All the guesswork and intuitive findings are getting on my nerves.

Pseudo science doesn’t work except maybe in sensational journalism. Getting a feel of the real work from projects like this doesn’t even let us lick the surface. It’s licking a glass panel covering the surface of the real work, making believe that something good comes out of this.

Sometimes, university feels like a whole big smokery. Application-based learning means practice for smoking your boss. Academic learning of abstract theories means learning keywords from big concepts that we can’t understand completely so as to sound professional.

We should either have abstract theories forced down our throats in school, or be thrown into the deep end at work. We may choke or drown, but at least we’ll get the nutrition and learn to swim.