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"Vaultage 80"

(LP. Attrix rcds. 1980) [GB]

I've started doing some work for Montreal's Alternative University Project - a group trying their best to figure out a better way to learn. A way that doesn't rely on government funding or private institutions. 

I've had my own share of university education. I've managed to score a Masters and a Bachelor's degree at one of the top universities in the UK for free - a fantastic loophole in the Scottish de-evolution mindset I am sure not many English, Welsh, or Northern Irish students are too pleased with.

Uni forced me to start coding. I am never going to say that I wasted four years of my life learning these things - but I might say I'm not sure it was worth the $16,000 a year some of my international friends were throwing up.

The professors were there for research purposes - classes were as much of a chore for them as they were for their pupils - so I hardly went to lectures. I opted to spend that time in the computer labs finishing homework for each course or working on projects outside of my curriculum. I used the Internet, my classmates, and my friends as teachers. 

Of course, there are some things you can't learn on the Internet - I just happened to have picked a direction that lives on the the Internet, behind a computer screen. Sometimes it's easier if you throw yourself into making, and occasionally you need that nudge from the people around you.