Re:Fvck school (2012)
by moron4hire on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:43PM
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Frankly, school is going to be such a small drop in the bucket of what your career will look like, that it shouldn't much matter whether you go or not. Your success will be determined by a continued habit of learning forever thereafter. This overemphasis on the importance of choices made in school devalues that.
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Yup. I find it strange that this comment is at the very bottom currently.
Anyways, I've been a freelancer right after a somewhat prestigious CS school, and I've never needed to show my degree.
That being said, I did learn some concepts that I doubt I'd have gotten too far into had I not been forced (OS, compilers, AI), which give me the edge when I need to learn more in those subjects in my gigs.
Also, I feel it gave me some confidence in what I do – an ego boost, if you will. Some may not need it, but I always have that degree to fall back on, if need be.
Overall, I don't regret it.