Academia in a nutshell
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Twitter has completely destroyed the mystique academics had back when I was in university. We used to check ratemyprof or whatever the site was called, but then you had to decide whether or not to believe the person calling the instructor crazy.
Now you just check the instructor's twitter, and they themselves will tell you they're crazy.
You still learn the only lesson that ever matters, and has ever mattered.
Nepotism and networking are the most useful thing in the world and will be the biggest deciding factor in your future.
Sadly, it's the way the world works. Once you get past a certain point in an organization, that position was filled because that person knew the right people, and only that.
And if you're lucky, they're atleast slightly competent. But it's one hell of a coin flip.
You're not wrong, though.