Dear colleges, I have a request to you all.
Stop teaching students that marks matter more than building real-world products.
Today was my final year major project presentation. I didn’t build some groundbreaking innovation — just a GPT wrapper. But I built it, deployed it, and it worked. While others ran projects on localhost, mine was live.
I reached college with the files. Before we could present, the lead teacher told our supervisor to throw them in the trash - because I used A4 paper instead of bond paper and stapled them. The file was also not in good condition.
Sure, that was my mistake. I didn’t know the format. So I went back to the shop to reprint and returned with perfect files.
After hours of waiting, our turn came. As we started explaining, the examiner stopped us and said, “this is just a bigger version Excel .”
No questions. Didn’t see the code. Didn’t test the project. Didn’t even ask for the file.
And the same teacher who made us rewrite the file multiple times? He threw it on the floor.
I’m not asking for praise. Just don’t do this to anyone. You never know what someone is already going through.
This education system isn’t evaluating us — it’s breaking us.