What will your Bachelor's Degree Be Worth If Everyone Can Go To College on Uncle Sam?

[Pandamonium]

Originally Posted by FormerCaliforniaGirl

My friend's son has a degree in Computer Science. He said that he actually learned everything he needs to know about his job, ON the job. Very little of what he learned in college has to do with what he actually does in his career. And I think this is true in a lot of cases.

I have a college degree, and I resent that I had to pay for about 3 years of "high school review". Anybody who has gone to college knows that the G.E. and prep classes you're forced to take are just a review of what you were supposed to have learned in high school, and it's a total waste of time.

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't have wasted my time and money in college.

I definitely agree with that.

[that1guy]

Originally Posted by FormerCaliforniaGirl

My friend's son has a degree in Computer Science. He said that he actually learned everything he needs to know about his job, ON the job. Very little of what he learned in college has to do with what he actually does in his career. And I think this is true in a lot of cases.

I have a college degree, and I resent that I had to pay for about 3 years of "high school review". Anybody who has gone to college knows that the G.E. and prep classes you're forced to take are just a review of what you were supposed to have learned in high school, and it's a total waste of time.

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't have wasted my time and money in college.

My friend and I were biopsych majors. Though I decided to leave the science field, he stayed. He claims that he uses all his organic chem. Lower division GEs are like high school, I agree. However, many upper division GE courses give you insight to a potential path. That's the purpose of the GEs, they enable you to gain different experiences that you may not have otherwise seen. It's a crap shoot, some people feel that it's a waste, others find a new field.

[texdav]

Looking at the dropout rate from high school ;its a moot question really.

[scarletneon]

hell, mine isn't worth much anyway (a journalism degree based on the old ways), thus why I'm going to grad school to do something else.