Ask HN: What are the most valuable things you got out of college education?

Posted by debanjan16 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Be it undergrad or grad school, what are the most valuable things you got out of college education? Now, when you look back what do you think you should have payed more attention to?

Btw, mention your major too.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most valuable things you got out of ... by texas1775 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:48AM (#36022136)

Discipline, meeting new people with new ideas, new ways at looking at the world.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most valuable things you got out of ... by eimrine on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:02PM (#36022273)

System programming, 3 years finished. Got nothing except maybe free time which was needed for discover Bitcoin. Also I got laid for a first time. I have met zero interesting people nor good teachers.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most valuable things you got out of ... by MilnerRoute on Sunday May 21, 2023 @07:06PM (#36025452)

You get jobs that you wouldn't have gotten had you not had a college degree. (You can't ever know what would've happened without the degree -- but over the years there's times were you do indeed get the job instead of being passed over, because of the degree...)

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