Hey everyone, can you please help me what to do- I don’t have and don’t use anything from Google. Now for school I am asked to provide Gmail. Is there way out ? What else, maybe some other email provider is compatible with school emailing system, because now teacher must use her personal email to email me and she is not happy at all…

    • Digit@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      So much exhausting bureaucratic organisational downtime in college between ladles of info, perchance you’re fit for it when they pour it, compared to just freely swimming in the ocean of information.

      It takes some kind of self motivation, be that curiosity, dedication, purpose or something else.

      Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

      Also then there’s the perspectives that value education above mere preparation for employment roles.

      • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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        3 hours ago

        Hmm, I don’t fully agree.

        I teach myself most things, which means I know a little about a lot of things. But it’s more specific and less general.

        If I take a course, I tend to learn more completely the parts I’d otherwise skip just to achieve the task at hand

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      8 days ago

      lol no, not here at least.

      university degrees are like 99% self studying at this point anyway so it doesn’t make anything any faster if you learn the same things, you just lack an important piece of paper