Summary of a Typical Student Year
Having attended college for a number of years now, I think I have figured out a pattern in terms of the work that we are assigned. Though the pattern is revealing, by knowing it is there I do not get any explicit advantage at all.
If you want to sum up my "research", a student's life can be summed up as the following:
1. Write up research proposal.
2. Create thesis.
3. Write a dissertation.
Basically, if you follow the pattern that I found, each year you basically just rinse and repeat it. If you were told that this is what you had to expect your life to be once you were college, I think many people wouldn't bother attending as it turns out to be pretty boring.
I know some of you argue that this pattern is simplistic, but I feel that it gives a good representation of what my experience has been in college.
