Comment by rco8786

There's so much to unpack here. I'll start from the bottom.

> better universities like Ivy Leagues where the author works

The author gives their background in the second paragraph of the article (did you read it?): "I teach at a regional public university in the US. Our students are average on just about any dimension you care to name"

> Well, most lectures just aren't very helpful. They move slower than if we just read the docs.

a) It appears that no one is reading the docs, as the author discussed at length (did you read it?)

b) A lecture is always faster than reading. A lecture is cliff notes. A lecture is the person who knows more than you teaching you the most important bits of the docs.

> it's not that reading bores me - there just isn't enough time and benefit to it

You stated that the lecture was too slow so you just read the docs. Here you state that there's not enough time and benefit to reading. Which is it?

> It scares me as well how little interest my peers have in actually learning

Do you see that you're demonstrating that same disinterest? Reading isn't worth your time. Lectures are too slow and the professors are dumb anyway. Etc.

> Literary books aren't going in my CV, nor providing any insight into how to write better code. When 1200 people compete for 1 open internship position

This implies that there is some educational medium by which you are so deeply focused and involved in, that the author is unaware of, pointed directly at CV building and internship/job getting, that you simply don't have time for the lectures or books that the author's class covers. Is that correct? What is it? How much time are you spending on an average day CV building?

> can I really afford to waste my time like this?

Sweet summer child. You are a college student. You have all the time in the world.

Your post here, if anything, corroborates the author's perspective.