Re:Surprising Things About School
by golergka on Monday March 12, 2018 @08:49AM
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Same here, only the opposite way. Anyone in my family have had degrees for at least 3 generations (majority had 2 degrees in different fields, and some pursued academic careers as well). Dropping out of university to do what I love is still something I feel guilty about - even 10 years later, being pretty much successful in the field I chose, I still feel like I'm a failure just because I don't have this damn piece of paper.
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You can always get the paper later -- they are for sale. The main issue is just deciding to spend the time they demand.
Go to school when you feel you need something they can teach you, and not before.
I would gladly invest time into some graduate course, but they require undegrad degree - and getting an undergrad CS degree after programming my whole life, studying a lot of theory and making personal hobby projects in almost every field (from OS to db to compilers to 3d renderers to ML) seems like a total waste.