>I was very motivated when I got into the university. I was hoping we'd learn compilers, functional programming, low-level stuff, I was eager to learn everything. (..) but we didn't get to start actual programming until maybe third year (..) Most students didn't care either because they were there “to get the diploma”.

Are you living in Romania, by chance? Because the situation looks EXACTLY the same here.

I got into college hoping I would get some guidance learning something I find very interesting, but instead I get a big fucking joke.

Of course I tried to learn by self-teaching, but it was hard and I didn't even cover what a decent university would cover. And, like you said, the rest of the people are there just to get the diploma.

When I talked with a friend in Austria about how things are done here, he was shocked. You can't even call it an education. More like a big waste of time.

Right now I'm stuck in third and last year, with a dozen failed exams on subjects that god knows who placed them in the curriculum. I wanted to drop out in the first year, after seeing the horrors for myself, but there was nothing I could do about it.

Sucks so hard seeing all those years passing by and barely even learning anything from what I was eager to learn.