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i did my degree i mining engineering, and we had some lecturers who had not worked in the industry since they used ponies to haul coal out.
One student said he wouldn't finish his thesis in time so would do it next year, he got told to sign a brick and hand it in, no ones going to care about an undergrad thesis.
yet mining graduates had the highest rate of starting pay of any course, and that was 12 years ago when mining was in a slump, especially compared to now.
and of my class of 50, only about 5 are still working in the industry, so for all of us, uni is all about beer and that piece of paper, not about what you learn
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