If someone tells you that they went to college...

Not all people with a uni degree are smart, I've seen some dumb ones in my time. Good for them if they've been. I haven't been to uni but consider myself to be quite smart and I've been told so. I had a couple of offers but turned them down. I have had further education though.

the assumption would be that they are interested in whatever subject they studied and can hold a decent enough conversation about that topic

beyond that it's up to them

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nah

I did teach at Uni

They were mostly really dumb and unmotivated and they were just there bc their parents told to be

Yep! I teach uni right now, and this sums it up. I had a girl not too long ago whose mind was blown when she discovered Africa is a real continent. She thought it was made up. What are they teaching in K-12 that a college freshman didn't know Africa was real?!

I went to college

I think that says enough lol

nope

to elaborate, i think there is a difference between being academically smart and generally intelligent. i went to uni for 5 years and i have an engineer degree but i have known many dumbasses in my time at uni and one of my colleagues, who is also an engineer, is one of the biggest dumbasses i have ever known. he once told our cleaning lady that she must not please her abusive husband enough when she complained to us about his stealing her money and abusing her emotionally. i was like this fucking bitch

one of the best things about wfh is i don't have to see his face again

I wouldn't just assume someone as smart, even if they had a PhD. If you go to college, it just shows that either your family is rich or you have an interest in a particular subject. And for some, it's neither. They just happened to do well in the college entrance exam.

I just assume that they partied quite a bit!

No, I seriously have fellow students in my degree that don't know what communism is and they graduated from high school with great grades. They were teacher pets and can learn something for a short amount of time and forget it after that.

Depending on the degree you don't have to be necessarily smart, you have to be talented in some degrees like art or have to have the same opinion as your professor like in Philosophy or Politics (from what I heard) and in my business degree some are really stupid at business related things but because my degree is full of statistics and other math stuff (so that not that many get the diploma), they are doing well

No not really most of the people around me that have gone to college just wasted their money and time by going