From 598735b4527803365879e1f7560955278022b367 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Romain=20Gon=C3=A7alves?= Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:38:20 +0200 Subject: blog: Add new blog post about life experience Each section should be rewritten and completed into separate blog posts. --- src/b/2021-10-thoughts-from-cold-autumn.md | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/b/2021-10-thoughts-from-cold-autumn.md (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/b/2021-10-thoughts-from-cold-autumn.md b/src/b/2021-10-thoughts-from-cold-autumn.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1873d27 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/b/2021-10-thoughts-from-cold-autumn.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +title: Thoughts from a cold autumn +date: 2021-10-23 + +Some thoughts that need to get out and written there. They might be turned into +individual blog posts later, once I sort them out. + +## Educational system + +For a long time I have been excited about the next year of studies. I always +thought that my new teachers and classmates would be excited as I was about: + +- learning new things, +- sharing their skills, +- improving their toolbox of culture and problem solving! + +> I was wrong. I am wrong. Educational system failed me, and I lost faith in +> it. + +I lost faith in most of teachers. In fact, I expect a teacher to inspiring. +But 99% of them are not. + +I lost faith in educational system. As a student, you are punished instead of +being rewarded. You are being taught the same things over and over again, +with the same boring methods. + +Please, tell me I am wrong. + +## Dealing with administrative services + +As a good citizen and young adult, I always fullfill my legal obligations in +time. And yet, every step turns my mind to a weird state, mixing anger and +frustration and despair: + +- I register through multiple online services. +- I have to use multiple and different credentials for each of those. +- They send verification codes through the postal service. POSTAL. SERVICE. +- Once the mails are received (two weeks later), I have to wait two more weeks + for account verification. +- For that specific declaration, they send another mail through postal service + .. +- The paper has to be manually completed, scanned, then sent through an online + service. + +> This is one of my many experiences with french administration in less than +> 6 months. + +In fact, almost every administration processes are burden: + +- They are slow and lack of documentations. +- They ask your personal informations MULTIPLE times, even when they already + have them in their database. +- It is tedious and slow to get support from an administrative employee. + +## Real life sucks + +People are hypocrytes. Most of them are the first ones to look down on you. +Even close people might eventually ignore you. No matter what you do or how +hard you try to accomplish anything meaningful. -- cgit v1.2.3