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

by debanjan16 on 5/21/23, 3:31 PM with 3 comments

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.

  • by eimrine on 5/21/23, 4:02 PM

    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.
  • by MilnerRoute on 5/21/23, 11:06 PM

    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...)
  • by texas1775 on 5/21/23, 3:48 PM

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