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I’m not very opinionated, but..
I fully agree. But this applies to all majors, I’d say— even in engineering, which is seemingly just crunching numbers and applying formulas, learning from others’ work is incredibly helpful. A lot of my classmates are very creative problem solvers, and I ask for their help as often as they are willing to give it. When I’m solving a problem and I am not 100% sure of which path to take, there’s nothing more helpful than bouncing ideas off with someone else and putting bits and pieces together the two of us. Someone who is unwilling to learn from others and to open up to their work being criticized by his peers is completely full of himself, I’d say. (And also giving his $50K/year to the wrong institution. Better off drinking it away, I’d say.)What’s the point of going to a school like MIT, where everyone’s extraordinary and smarter than average, if you are so unwilling to learn from the perspectives and talents of your fellow students/your TAs? This probably isn’t applicable to every major, so I’m just talking arts here - if you can’t even look at your classmate’s work and talk to people about your projects to get advice and inspiration because that just kills your boner, and if you’re not the least bit interested in improving and think no one around you has anything of value to add to your education, then why’re you here? Stop wasting our fucking time.
