How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning

Re:How college became a ruthless competition divorced from l... by ghaff on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:54PM (#27071065)

I do have an engineering degree, have worked as an engineer, and am still in at least a quasi-technical role. I also only semi-joke that the time I spent on student newspapers and the like undergrad has probably been more useful to me than a lot of the engineering courses I took for much of my career.

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Re:How college became a ruthless competition divorced from l... by MagnumOpus on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:49AM (#27075811)

So 4,500 hours of college spent on stem and 500 hour spent on humanities makes you more prepared for the world than a 5,000:0 ratio. That is plausible. But extrapolating that a 0:5,000 ratio of a humanities degree (or even 500:4,500) is equally helpful or even better is very problematic.

(You do need writing skills to be a good engineer, but the "engineer" bit is hard to do without.)

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