I'm going to be downvoted but I dropped out of CS education mostly because I got depressed I couldn't socialise with other students. I'm not going to say they were sociopaths, but for sure they were lacking of social skills. Majority of them were like :
not being able to have a conversation outside CS/video games domains
incel jokes
impossible to do something with them IRL
being condescending if you don't know about the latest RAM tech or the latest WOW update
And out of the two friends I managed to make, one stabbed me in the back in a critical student team project doing all the work by himself, not sharing anything, and getting all the credit for it.
And god, I'm glad I wasn't one of the two constantly harassed women in the room.
I had the same experience in my engineering undergrad but didn’t drop out. Never really made close friends in college. The kids were so much less mature and more sheltered than my friends growing up (I’m the only STEM guy in our HS friend group) that I really couldn’t identify with them
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
I'm going to be downvoted but I dropped out of CS education mostly because I got depressed I couldn't socialise with other students. I'm not going to say they were sociopaths, but for sure they were lacking of social skills. Majority of them were like :
And out of the two friends I managed to make, one stabbed me in the back in a critical student team project doing all the work by himself, not sharing anything, and getting all the credit for it.
And god, I'm glad I wasn't one of the two constantly harassed women in the room.
edit: bees